This book provides everything you need to know to keep your horse healthy and happy. Once you've got a horse, what exactly is it you've got. For example, if your horse were missing a single chromosome, he wouldn't even be a horse. But then, what would he be? What gives your horse is power, and when is he moving right or wrong? Can his dogs bark, and if he has a vocabulary, is he or isn't he talking?
Healthy Horses Seldom Burp! provides accurate, dependable coverage of horse shoeing and hoof care to skin and teeth, the purposes for bandages, the value of gelding, instructions for taking your horse's vital signs and a handy reference for annual health protection. In addition you'll find lively and enlightening information on how to detect and deal with everything from thrush, ringbone, sidebone, lameness to laminitis, strongles poison plants, inflammation, worms and colic.
Dr. Alice M. Blazer, DVM and certified acupuncturist explains all the medical conditions so well, both you and your horse will know why horses seldom burp.
Never stuffy, never pompous, never too technical, this book will be read again and again and will be the reference you grab everytime you have a question.
From the Publisher
Here, at last, is a serious book on horse health care you're actually going to want to read. In fact, it's a safe bet you'll read it again and again. Healthy Horses Seldom Burp is like no other. It provides accurate, dependable coverage of everything from shoeing and hoof care to skin and teeth, the purposes for bandages, the value of gelding, instructions for taking your horse's vital signs and a hand reference for annual health protection. In addition, you'll find lively and enlightening information on how to detect and deal with everything from thrush, ringbone, sidebone, lameness to laminitis, stangles poison plants, inflammation, worms and colic.
Often very funny, this book offers a view with a twist to the standard reports on emergency first aid, feeding, winter and summer care and how to reduce the horse-fly population.
All medical, nutritional and health care information is validated by Dr. Alice M. Blazer, veterinarian and certified acupuncturist. You'll find her advice often reflects the prevailing opinions of practicing veterinarians, yet frequently takes on a more common sense horseman's approach to keeping horses healthy and happy.
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