Table 1.
Group characteristics of horses and ponies at the start of each study.
Table 2.
Environmental conditions during each study.
Table 3.
Nutritional composition and analytical constituents of feed used in each study.
Fig 1.
Horse wearing a mobile light mask.
Fig 2.
Changes in guard hair length (a), guard hair weight (b) and coat condition (c) of stabled horses and ponies in study 1. * denotes significance at P<0.05.
Fig 3.
Changes in guard hair length (a), guard hair weight (b) and coat condition (c) of stabled horses and ponies in study 2. Photos taken at the end of the study period (d) depict coat differences in a treatment horse (left) and a treatment pony (right). *,**,***,**** denote significance at the P<0.05, P<0.01, P<0.001 and P<0.0001 level, respectively.
Fig 4.
Changes in guard hair length (a), guard hair weight (b), coat condition (c) and coat shedding (d) of outdoor living horses in study 3.
Fig 5.
Changes in guard hair length (a), guard hair weight (b), coat condition (c) and coat shedding (d) of outdoor and indoor living ponies in study 4. * denote significance at the P<0.05 level.