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The Ultimate Guide for Horses in Need: Care, Training, and Rehabilitation for Rescues, Adoptions, and Horses in Transition
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Barnes and Noble
The Ultimate Guide for Horses in Need: Care, Training, and Rehabilitation for Rescues, Adoptions, and Horses in Transition
Current price: $34.95
Barnes and Noble
The Ultimate Guide for Horses in Need: Care, Training, and Rehabilitation for Rescues, Adoptions, and Horses in Transition
Current price: $34.95
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A resource of astounding scope illustrating recommended management and retraining practices for horses and donkeys that have been ignored, neglected, abused, or starved.
- Where they come from: The origins of the unwanted, neglected, or abused horse.
- Travel and intake: Safety, regulations, identification, and quarantine.
- Nutrition, dentistry, and colic: Body Condition Scoring (BCS),
- Refeeding Syndrome, nutrition, long-term weight management, colic prevention and treatment, and dealing with gastric ulcers.
- Vaccination and parasite management: Deworming, identifying and treating skin conditions, viruses, and respiratory diseases.
- Hoof care, lameness, and wounds: Evaluating hoof structure and the horse’s movement, trimming and shoeing, abscesses, laminitis, arthritis, and bandaging.
- Birth control: Castration and mare management.
- Foal rescue: The birthing process, working with orphans, halter training, and hoof handling.
- The “down” horse: Identifying and treating underlying problems, rolling a horse, bed sores, slings, and quality of life considerations.
- Working in disaster scenarios: Preparedness, identification, transportation, communication, and first aid.
- Euthanasia: Compassionate guidelines, procedures, and aftercare.
- Unique training considerations: Coming into work according to BCS.
- How horses sense and respond: Equine vision, training principles, and working with the fearful horse.
- Developing a relationship with your rescue: Social integration, developing trust, overcoming fear, handling feet and legs, halter training adult horses, preparing a horse for medical care, groundwork, and riding.