Equine Health
Equine Health
A Complete Guide to Selecting and Caring for Your Horse
This video gives solid advice for selecting the right horse, care and feeding,A Healthy Horse, the Natural Way
A horse owner’s guide to using herbs, massage, aromatherapy, homeopathy and other natural therapies. Discusses how and when to use a combination of these therapies and when to use them in conjunction with veterinary treatment.
All Horse Systems Go
SC Book – If only one comprehensive horse care were to be chosen for a library, it should be this extensive and well-illustrated reference. Written by a horse vet specialist, it packs in not only the anticipated horse care and health solutions chapters, but includes tips on fitness, conditioning, and much more. Small color photos throughout add interest but the meat is in the chapters of medical insights backed by a practicing vet’s long-time experience: chapters which can save a horse’s life whether consulted quickly in an emergency or used as preventative points.
Anatomy in Motion – The Visible Horse
This DVD contains slow-motion studies of the English and Western gaits. It is clear and understandable for 4-H or Pony Club groups, but comprehensive enough to be of interest to other equine professionals.
Anatomy in Motion – The Visible Rider
Peggy Brown wears a custom-painted “skeleton suit” to show how a rider’s body works when riding. She demonstrates in all gais in English and Western. Guaranteed to help identify good and bad posture
Barn Guide To Horse Health Care & First Aid
Concise Guide to Laminitis in the Horse
SC book – A guide that shines light on this unpredictable and traditionally misunderstood disease with accessible information and current thoughts on prevention, treatment and recovery.
Concise Guide to Medications, Herbs and Supplements
Concise Guide to Navicular in the Horse
SC book – $19.95 – The facts imparted in this guide will help owners formulate a rational approach to the prevention and treatment of laminitis. It is meant to be read and discussed with one’s veterinarian and farrier. Use it as a first line against this dreaded disease.
Concise Guide to Respiratory Disease
Chapters include the anatomy of a horse’s respiratory system, techniques your vet uses for diagnosing problems, how those problems are treated, and common issues in the upper and lower airways. There are also chapters specific to four of the most common respiratory issues: shipping fever, strangles, heaves and EIPH (exerciseinduced bleeding).
Controlling Your Horse’s Speed
DVD 1 hr 45 min. Total control is the single most important aspect of training. Gain control of your horse at the walk, trot or canter. This training applies to any style of riding and to any level rider from novice to advanced. Control the elevation of your horse’s head to help him calm down, while developing shoulder control, side passing, bridle control and a better stop
Dr. Kellon’s First Aid Guide Book
SC book – 254 pages – In addition to step-by-step instructions on what to do in case of an emergency, Dr. Kellon provides a rating system to help determine the urgency of the situation. Directions are clear in the color-coded pages equipped with index and appendices
Dr. Kellon’s First Aid Guide DVD
DVD – Learn to care for wounds and other major injuries as well as how to diagnose and treat acute conditions in all major organ systems with step-by-step demonstrations.
Equine Massage Book
SC book – 256 pages – Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt, RMT, introduces the techniques you will use during a message, its integral role in sport therapy, and then presents a series of routines designed to target specific trouble spots and various disciplines.
Equine Massage DVD
DVD 90 minutes – This video offers demonstrations for every chapter of the book. The sections on individual techniques and complete routines are especially valuable.
First Aid for Horse and Rider
This book provides advice from both a DVM and an MD about handling all the common injuries and conditions that can arise when people and horses come together.
Fitness in Motion
Give a Horse a Second Chance:Adopting and Caring for Rescue Horses
HC book. 186 pages. How is a rescue horse different? What do people need to know to be a good partner for a previously abused or neglected equine? A complete guide to giving healthy and productive lives to deserving horses.
Healing Horses Their Way
SC book Every horse needs their owner to read this book. Equine nutritionist Marijke van de Water has done an extraordinary job of helping thousands of horses. Includes natural health programs o successfully treat a variety of equine health conditions including digestive disorders, colic, cribbing, parasites, immune conditions, respiratory disorders, laminitis, metabolic syndrome and detoxification. Know how, what and when to feed grass, hay, and grain. Complete with successful case studies.
Help Me Help My Horse
Book. Develop a partnership and working relationship with your horse. Help your partner to understand the cues, when to teach a new lesson getting consistent performance and understanding learning cycles.
Horse Anatomy – A Coloring Atlas
SC Book. This anatomy atlas is split into sections covering every aspect of the equine anatomy by system. Drawings outline each system, organ features, common ailments, diseases, and functions.
Horse Conformation
The most comprehensive guide to the horse’s body – inside and out – ever published. From the Equine Research Center. The comprehensive text focuses on ideal and abnormal conformation features, balance and symmetry, relationship between conformation faults and athletic ability, colors and markings, anatomical elements, teeth and aging, digestive, neurological, respiratory and circulatory systems, and the relationship between structure and function. Highly recommended.
Horse Health Care
Horse Hoof Care
Horse Housekeeping
Authoritative, inspirational, highly accessible, full of common sense and downto- earth advice, all of it based on twentyfive years of experience, the Korda’s book is a basic resource for anybody who wants to keep horses in a safe, content, healthy, and cost-effective way at home, from detailed lists of things you need to have on hand to the basic (and not so basic) dos and don’ts of horse care.
Horse Journal Guide to Equine Supplements and Nutraceuticals
Horse Lover’s Encyclopedia
Horse Owner’s Veterinary Handbook
HC book – 538 pages – This easy-to-navigate reference tool includes almost every conceivable veterinarian concern – from snakebites to reproduction and parasites. The graphic photographs are helpful in identifying a problem.
How to Use Leg Wraps, Bandages & Boots
SC Book, 112 pages. Leg coverings are not the easiest things to use, and can be the sign of what separates a professional from a novice. This book explains wrapping the correct way, as well as different types of boots and caring for leg ailments.
How Your Horse Moves
Lameness
SC book – This highly acclaimed book analyzes the causes, diagnoses, and management of the myriad causes of lameness. Defining and identifying the lame leg; spotting gait abnormalities and non-muscular causes; physical examinations and evaluations; diagnostic tools and other tests; the role of the veterinarian and farrier in prepurchase examinations.
Massage Techniques
HC Book – Superb photographs and detailed line drawings, in addition to an in-depth discussion of the circulatory, muscular and nervous systems of the horse as they relate to massage make this a vital reference source for all who are interested in massage.
Miniature Horses A Vet Guide
SC Book. Providing all the information needed to safely and correctly treat Miniatures, this guide gives special attention to Miniature-specific problems and concerns.
Riding For Life
The Book of Miniature Horses
HC Book. 160 pages. The complete guide to caring for and showing this diminutive breed.
The Horses Pain-Free Back and Saddle-Fit Book
Dr. Joyce Harman, veterinarian and renowned saddle-fitting expert, advises on why saddle fit matters to both horse and rider, western saddle evaluation, off and on the horse, ensuring the saddle fits the rider, proper use of saddle pads and accommodating conformational challenges.
Western Saddle Fitting for Comfort
Western Saddles How to Fit Pain-Free
DVD 45 min. Dr. Joyce Harman, veterinarian and renowned saddle-fitting expert, advises on why saddle fit matters to both horse and rider, western saddle evaluation, off and on the horse, ensuring the saddle fits the rider, proper use of saddle pads and accommodating conformational challenges.
Whole Horse Wellness Guide
