Horse Care I - Agriculture
Course
Distance
*Indicative price
Original amount in EUR:
295 €
Description
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Type
Course
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Methodology
Distance Learning
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Class hours
100h
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Course programme
Duration: 100 hours
Method of Learning: Online, CD-ROM or correspondence (paper based)
Start: Anytime! And from anywhere in the world!
Qualification: Certificate
Course Structure
There are seven lessons as follows:
- Horse Psychology & Handling
- Buying A Horse
- Conformation
- The Digestive System & Principles Of Feeding & Watering
- The Grass Kept Horse & Pasture Management
- Grooming
- Industry Application
Summary of Competencies Developed
- Differentiate between the different procedures used for the handling of horses.
- Describe the procedures for the buying and selling of horses.
- Develop a program for the evaluation of the conformation of horses on a property/facility.
- Analyse the digestive system, including structure and function, of horses.
- Develop appropriate procedures to manage a horse at grass.
- Explain the methods used to prepare horses for specific uses, including their grooming for different tasks.
- Explain commercial opportunities available in the horse industry.
What The Course Covers
Here are just some of the things you will be doing:
- Describe different psychological traits of a horse including: *herd instinct *memory *fright.
- Explain how an understanding of horse psychology can assist with handling a horse.
- Compare three different methods of breaking in a horse.
- Demonstrate how to put on different pieces of tack including: *a head stall *a bridle *a saddle.
- Demonstrate how to lead a horse.
- Demonstrate how to ride a horse.
- Develop a list of safety rules for handling horses in a specified situation.
- Compare the differences in the way two different horse owners handle their horses, at the same horse show or competition.
- Describe the different ways of trading (i.e. buying or selling) horses in your locality.
- Develop a checklist of factors to consider when buying a horse for a specified type of use.
- Compare five different advertisements for the sale of horses of a similar type, to determine which of the five appears to be the best value, and listing the reasons why it appears good value.
- Evaluate the features of a horse being offered for sale in your locality, to determine the value of that horse.
- Label an unlabelled diagram of the parts of a horse's body.
- Define the different conformation terminology, including: *girth *body proportions *leg settings *conformation *bone.
- Describe the preferred features of the parts of a horses body referred to in earlier points.
- Compare the conformation of two different breeds of horses, based upon a physical inspection of a horse from each breed.
- Compare procedures used to evaluate the conformation of horses at two different properties/facilities.
- Label the parts on an unlabelled diagram of the digestive system of horses.
- Explain the function of different components in a horse's diet.
- Explain how the watering of a horse, as observed by you, on a specific property is likely to affect that horses digestive processes.
- Evaluate the digestive processes involved in the digestion of three different horse feeds analysed by you.
- Differentiate between the digestive processes in three different types of horses, including:
*very active horses *horses being rested. - Compare the advantages with the disadvantages of keeping a horse at grass.
- Recommend paddock facilities, in your locality, which are appropriate for horses kept at grass.
- Prepare a description, and use illustrations where appropriate, of the facilities you recommended.
- Differentiate between the requirements of a specified horse kept at grass, at different times of the year, in your locality.
- Develop guidelines for managing a specific horse at grass, on a property visited and investigated by you.
- Explain three different husbandry tasks which are essential to the management of the horse investigated by you.
- List the different reasons for grooming horses.
- Describe how to use different items of grooming equipment.
- Write a procedure for washing a horse, in a specified situation.
- Compare how to groom horses for different situations, including: *dressage *pony club competition *exhibitions *stock work.
- List the different applications for horses in modern society.
- List the resources available for different sectors of the horse industry in your locality, including: *racing *breeding *competitions *recreational riding.
- Determine the minimum facilities required to establish three different specified businesses in the horse industry, including; *a riding school *a stock agent *another horse business.
- Evaluate the financial viability of four different sectors of the horse industry.
- Evaluate the potential of two different specified horse enterprises in your locality.
Horse Care I - Agriculture
*Indicative price
Original amount in EUR:
295 €