{"id":2539,"date":"2009-08-19T00:05:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T17:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=2539"},"modified":"2009-08-19T00:05:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T17:05:48","slug":"aqha-animal-welfare-working-group-moving-forward-with-objectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/aqha-animal-welfare-working-group-moving-forward-with-objectives\/","title":{"rendered":"AQHA Animal Welfare Working Group Moving Forward With Objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>America\u2019s Horse, August 14, 2009<\/em> \u2013 The American Quarter Horse Association Executive Committee recently approved three objectives established by the Association\u2019s Animal Welfare Working Group.<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Develop a written commitment to be signed by AQHA and its alliance partners (the National Reining Horse, National Cutting Horse, National Reined Cow Horse and the National Snaffle Bit associations) to work jointly to ensure and promote animal welfare.<br \/>\n2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AQHA and its alliance partners will develop an editorial board with each of its publications to rotate interviewing horsemen and their commitment to caring for their animals. The articles could be developed into a \u201cHorsemen\u2019s Manual,\u201d which would be used as an educational tool for prospective horse trainers.<br \/>\n3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Conduct a breeders\u2019 seminar in conjunction with the 2010 AQHA Convention to discuss the effects of genetic defects\/diseases on the American Quarter Horse breed and cover stallion breeding, other business statistics and a review of foal activity summaries to educate breeders on selecting stallions\/mares.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the working group are Dr. Wayne Burwash, Janet Bowen, David Dellin, Dr. Doug Corey, Bobby Lewis, Sam Rose and Allen Mitchels. The Animal Welfare Working Group also will meet during the next 12 to 18 months to develop more objectives that will be presented to the AQHA Executive Committee for approval.<\/p>\n<p>AQHA news and information is a service of AQHA publications. For more information on\u00a0<em>The American Quarter Horse Journal, The American Quarter Horse Racing Journal<\/em> or\u00a0<em>America\u2019s Horse<\/em>, visit\u00a0<a id=\"a27\" href=\"http:\/\/list.aqha.net\/t\/28259\/1858987\/69\/0\/\"><em>www.aqha.com\/magazines<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p29\" style=\"text-align: center; border-width: 1px; border-color: #000000;\">-30-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s Horse, August 14, 2009 \u2013 The American Quarter Horse Association Executive Committee recently approved three objectives established by the Association\u2019s Animal Welfare Working Group. 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Develop a written commitment to be signed by AQHA and its alliance partners (the National Reining Horse, National Cutting Horse, National Reined Cow Horse and the National Snaffle Bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aqha","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2541,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions\/2541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}