An exploration of industry expert perception of Canadian equine welfare using a modified Delphi technique

• Cordelie DuBois ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cordelie DuBois, Katrina Merkies

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7955-0651

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• Helen Hambly Odame ,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Environmental Design and Rural Development, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Derek B. Haley ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Katrina Merkies

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cordelie DuBois, Katrina Merkies

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kmerkies@uoguelph.ca

  Affiliations Department of Animal Biosciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9462-4150

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