The Horse Lover’s Bible

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  The Complete Practical Guide to Horse Care and Management

  This comprehensive and up-to-date reference takes a different approach to horse care and management by providing insights into the reasons why horses behave the way they do. Following the author’s good counsel here, riders and owners can ensure their horses receive the best care while developing a valuable, lasting rapport with them.

  The book’s straightforward layout guides the owner and rider through the full range of issues, from assessing and purchasing a horse, to maintaining its well-being and ensuring its fitness, preparing for competitions, dealing with illness and injury, and much more. Checklist summaries appear at the end of each section. Step-by-step photographs and quick-reference boxes complement the comprehensive text.

  The topics include:

  Assessing conformation, temperament, ability and breed characteristics
  Evaluating equipment and tack for both English and Western riding
  Analyzing horse behavior and natural instincts
  Stable design, field maintenance and nutrition
  Buying, stabling, exercising, grooming, training and showing
  Shoeing, tacking, traveling and breeding
  Step-by-step clipping, trimming, plaiting, show turnout and quarter marking
  Common ailments and traditional and alternative therapies
  A handy year-round plan of preventive health routines
  First-aid and emergency procedures.
  The Horse Lover’s Bible is a thorough and outstanding handbook for any rider, and especially valuable to new owners.

  Pub Date: January 9, 2014

• Specifications

  Book Category	Horse Stories
  Age by Development
  Audience	Teen
  Binding	Paperback
  Brand	Firefly Books

• More Info

  SKU: 116-0435Categories: Study HelpsBrand: Firefly Books

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