HOW TO MANAGE STABLE ROUTINES AND CONDITIONING SCHEDULES

Protecting a horse's health in a stable environment relies on strict cleanliness, proper shoeing, and correct tack choices.

• Study different ways to keep horses, choose bedding materials, and maintain clean feed rooms.
• Learn foot anatomy, recognise when a horse needs shoeing, and check newly shod hooves.
• Understand the difference between exercise and conditioning to build a proper fitness schedule.
• Master the principles of bitting, saddle fitting, sore back prevention, and leather tack cleaning.

It can also be selected as a complete course of study in conjunction with Horse Care I and Horse Care III.

Course Duration: 100 hours

Course Structure

There are 7 lessons in this course.

1. Feeds
   • roughage
   • concentrates
   • roots
   • green feeds and succulents
   • tempters and tonics
   • salts
   • feeding for special purposes.
2. Stabling
   • three ways to keep horses
   • combined systems
   • stalls, stables/loose boxes
   • barns
   • stable layout
   • feed rooms
   • tack rooms
   • the medicine chest
   • stable routine
   • stable tricks and vices.
3. 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 muck heap.
4. 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.
5. Exercise and Conditioning
   • the difference between exercise and conditioning
   • soft and hard condition
   • exercising a horse
   • the fittening schedule
   • principles of fittening
   • maintaining fitness.
6. 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.
7. Horse Facility Design
   • farm layout

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