About the Authors

Kennedy Aldrich

Contributed equally to this work with: Kennedy Aldrich, Deborah Velez-Irizarry

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mary Anne McPhail Equine Performance Center, Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America

Deborah Velez-Irizarry

Contributed equally to this work with: Kennedy Aldrich, Deborah Velez-Irizarry

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mary Anne McPhail Equine Performance Center, Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America

Clara Fenger

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Equine Integrated Medicine, PLC, Lexington, KY, United States of America

Melissa Schott

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Mary Anne McPhail Equine Performance Center, Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America

Stephanie J. Valberg

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

valbergs@cvm.msu.edu

Affiliation Mary Anne McPhail Equine Performance Center, Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America

Competing Interests

One of the authors (CF) is a practicing veterinarian and owner of the business Equine Integrated Medicine PLC. There are no other relevant declarations relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development, or marketed products. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.