Gait quality scoring data of Franches-Montagnes stallions at walk and trot on a treadmill by experts of the breed and their reliability

Annik Imogen Gmel; Gerhard Gmel; Michael A Weishaupt; Markus Neuditschko

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2022.108123

Gait quality scoring data of Franches-Montagnes stallions at walk and trot on a treadmill by experts of the breed and their reliability

Data Brief. 2022 Apr 1:42:108123. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108123. eCollection 2022 Jun.

Authors

Annik Imogen Gmel^{1

2}, Gerhard Gmel³, Michael A Weishaupt², Markus Neuditschko¹

Affiliations

¹ Animal GenoPhenomics, Agroscope, Route de la Tioleyre 4, 1725 Posieux, Switzerland.
² Equine Department, Vetsuisse Faculty University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 260, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
³ Alcohol Treatment Centre, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Beaumont 21bis, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland.

Abstract

This article presents the data obtained from the scoring of 24 stallions of the Franches-Montagnes (FM) horse breed by six experts of this breed. The experts scored six traits at walk and eight at trot from the video recordings of these stallions walking and trotting on a treadmill during an incremental speed test. The scores were given on a scale of one to nine. All experts scored the same videos twice (two scoring tests) with a time interval of two years, and without feedback from the first scoring. Video sequences were presented in a different order between first and second scoring. The inter- and intra-rater reliability of the data was assessed using intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) to evaluate its quality.

Keywords: Breeding; Horse; Intra-class correlation coefficient; Linear profiling; Subjective scoring; Treadmill.