Piggy March lends support to Strangles Awareness Week
Piggy March lends support to Strangles Awareness Week 2022 in new video
One of Britain’s leading event riders Piggy March has given her support to this year’s Strangles Awareness Week and is encouraging all owners to take part in the ‘Temperature Check Challenge’ in a new video.
Leading equine welfare charities, vets, researchers and higher education institutions from around the world have come together to organise the week (2nd – 8th May) – now in its third year – with the aim of educating people about the highly contagious equine disease strangles and helping to prevent an outbreak.
This year, owners are being asked to take the ‘Temperature Check Challenge’ by taking their horse’s resting temperature each day and inputting the reading into a free online checker which will help them get to know their horse’s normal range – something that fluctuates by a fraction of a degree through the day according to a range of factors. A high temperature is an early warning sign that your horse may have been infected with strangles – and will become infectious to other horses – so getting to know what your horse’s ‘normal’ temperature, and variation, it could prevent an outbreak.
Piggy’s video, which aims to give horse owners tips and confidence if taking their horse’s temperature for the first time, and featuring Cooley Lancer aka Swiss Roll, has just been launched across the #SAW2022 social media platforms.