| | "COMPLETE HORSE CARE" Author: Tim Hawcroft. 208 pages. Hardcover, color photos throughout. Contents: How the horse evolved, the points of a horse. Buying a horse: conformation, gait, temperament, identification. Basic horsemanship: riding, lungeing, restraint, transporting safety, tack, tack care, rugging the healthy horse. Daily care, periodic care, shoeing, vaccination, stabling. First aid and administration of medication, diseases and problems a-z. Breeding: stallion, mare, serving or mating, artificial breeding, pregnancy diagnosis, management during pregnancy, abortion, foaling, induction of labor, care after foaling, the foal, the weanling and yearling. |
