The FEI is a JOKE | Hyperflexion & Rollkur

The FEI is a joke of an organization and does not care about welfare.

Citations:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24329719/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22320155/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168159108002876

https://edepot.wur.nl/139247

https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/20103174994

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1558787810000626

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jpn.12155

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jpn.12210

https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/wurpubs/fulltext/139247

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jpn.12154

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0103140

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Rein tension measurements have been published and offer the simplest way of monitoring the buccal pressures required (either in one hit or by some accumulation of sustained smaller rein signals) to trigger hyperflexion
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