Horse Care II 100 Hours Certificate Course
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Horse Care II course online. Home Study - Distance Learning Course. Know about caring for horses? Expand your knowledge. Develop your skills in the feeding, stabling, bedding, tacking up, foot care and conditioning of horses. This home study course follows on from Horse Care I, but can be taken as a stand-alone course. Particularly relevant for caring for stabled horses, it also covers aspects of care which are relevant to the horse at grass.
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Analyse the feeding requirements and feeding techniques available for horse husbandry.
Develop a stable management program for horses.
Explain the management procedures necessary to fulfill the bedding requirements of horses.
Explain the management and care of horses feet.
Implement management procedures for the conditioning of horses.
Describe the procedures used for managing the tack requirements of horses.
Explain the management, including design and applications, of facilities used in the horse industry.
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There are 7 lessons:
- Feeds
- Roughage
- Concentrates
- Roots
- Green feeds and succulents
- Tempters and tonics
- Salts
- Feeding for special purposes
- Stabling
- Three ways to keep horses
- Combined systems
- Stalls
- Stables/looseboxes
- Barns
- Stable layout
- Feed rooms
- Tack rooms
- The medicine chest
- Stable routine
- Stable tricks and vices
- Bedding and Mucking Out
- Reasons for bedding
- Bedding qualities
- Bedding types
- Choosing a system
- Tools needed for mucking out
- Mucking out
- Bedding down
- Managing the bed
- Conserving bedding
- Comparing bedding
- The muckheap
- The Foot and Shoeing
- Foot structure
- Trimming
- Advantages and disadvantages of shoeing
- Signs that shoeing is required
- The farrier's tools
- How the horse is shod
- What to look for in a newly shod hoof
- Basic shoes
- Surgical shoeing
- Studs
- Exercise and Conditioning
- The difference between exercise and conditioning
- Soft and hard condition
- Exercising a horse
- The fittening schedule
- Principles of fittening
- Maintaining fitness
- Tack and Tack Fitting
- Principles of bitting
- The mouth
- Types of bits
- Where the bit acts
- Fitting the saddle
- Causes of sore backs
- Care of the back when unsaddling
- Saddle types
- Linings
- Girths
- Saddle cloths and numnahs,
- Tack cleaning
- Horse Facility Design
- Farm layout
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading
Horse Care II 100 Hours Certificate Course