BHS Complete Manual of Stable Management
£19.49
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£19.49
Recommended retail price £19.95
Stock type: -
Stock reference: 47.033
Published for the BHS by Kenilworth Press, the Manual is required reading for BHS exam students, providing a sound foundation for Horse Knowledge and Care Stages 1 to IV and the BHS Stable Manager's Certificate.
Compiled by a panel of experts, recently re-illustrated, and revised by Islay Auty FBHS into a superb new 408-page single-volume edition. It is filled with reliable information and advice and provides career students and all horse owners with a comprehensive and accessible guide to the care and management of horses and ponies, conveniently and economically in one single source of reference. Throughout, the emphasis is on correct and safe procedures.
The Horse:
· Conformation
· Action
· Psychology
· Teeth and Ageing
· Breeds and Breeding
· Identification
· Buying and Selling a Horse
Care of the Horse
· Handling
· Grooming
· Clipping, Trimming
· Plaiting
· Shoeing and Foot Care
· Bedding
· Signs of Good Health
· Caring for the Sick Horse
· Internal Parasites
· Stable Vices and Problem Behaviour
Watering and Feeding
· Watering
· Dehydration
· Food and Digestion
· The Rules of Feeding
· Food - Composition and Types
· Calculating Rations
· Feeding Problems
· Storing Food
Saddlery and Tack
· Saddles
· Bridles and Other Saddlery
· Bits
· Boots and Bandages
· Clothing
· Care and Cleaning
· Saddling up and Unsaddling
Specialist Care of the Competition Horse
· Event Horse
· Dressage Horse
· Show Jumper
· Driving Horse
· Endurance Horse
· Hunter
· Show Horse or Pony
· Point-to-Pointer
· Polo Pony
· Types of Transportation
· Travelling
The Horse at Grass
· Grassland Management
· Managing Equines at Grass
· Working the Grass-kept Horse or Pony
· Bringing a Horse up From Grass
The Stable Yard
· Construction and Design
· Riding Areas
· Organising and Running a Yard
· The Law
Appendices:
· Rationing
· Measurements
· The British Horse Society
· Full 8-page Index
British Horse Society, Edited by Islay Auty FBHS
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