WATCH: The University of Calgary is offering world-leading research from W.A. Ranches, a real working ranch operated by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. This year-two major research project will take place in the barns and behind the chutes of the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth. Doug Vaessen reports.The W.A. Ranches facility was gifted to the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in 2018.
“This year what we are doing is providing a new framework to develop a new tool to look at assessing animal welfare of the rodeo animals. Animals show signs of stress, show signs of fear. We know what those are. So we can put those in a catalogue of things we are going to measure. So we can say how bad situation is for these animals.
And for the first time, every horses that run in the chuckwagon races will be given a blood test to try and prevent equine heart attacks, says Dr. Renaud Leguillette, Professor at the U of C’s faculty of Veterinary Medicine.“We validated a test that allows us to measure how the cardiac muscle, the heart muscle, is dealing with the effort in the races. Then we can…red flag a horse.”Leguillette says it’s like finding a needle in a haystack.
“The beauty is we have that strong relationship with the Calgary Stampede. They have really opened the doors to us.”New charges against Frank Stronach involve 7 additional complainants: court documents
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