The aim of the thesis was to obtain information about the state of horse housing in Slovenia (which housing system prevails, how much space/horse is in each housing system, what are the microclimatic conditions in the stable...). We compared the collected data with the legislation in Slovenia, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Switzerland and Sweden and gave recommendations for horse keeping in Slovenia. Using a prepared questionnaire, we described in detail 53 stables on 30 horse farms (10 each with sport horses, leisure horses and horses for meat production) widespread throughout Slovenia. In sport horse farms, the most common housing system (64.0 %) was a single stall with no permanent access to the outdoor run and no view through the window to the passageway or outside; in leisure horse farms, the most common housing system (46.2 %) was group housing in an open stable with permanent access to the outdoor run or pasture; and in meat horse farms, the most common housing system (46.7 %) was a tie-stall. Horses kept in single stalls were housed in stalls with the same or more space than required in Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland and Sweden. Compared to the Slovenian, Austrian and Swiss legislation, horses in group housing had less space, but more space than in Sweden. The tie-stalls were wider and longer than required in Sweden. Microclimatic conditions (lighting, temperature, relative humidity and air speed) were inadequate in 20.0 % to 70.0 % of farms at the time of the visit.
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