Backyard Horsekeeping

Name: Backyard Horsekeeping | The Only Guide You''ll Ever Need
Brand: Lyons Press
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The Only Guide You''ll Ever Need

Joan Fry(Autor*in)

Lyons Press

Erschienen am 1. Mai 2007

424 Seiten

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Backyard Horsekeeping
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Property, Time, and Money: How Expensive is a Backyard Horse?
The Backyard Horse: A Definition
Horse Property
How Much Time Will Horse Care Take?
How Much Money Will It Cost?
Where Do All the Road Apples Go?
The Bottom Line
Chapter 2: Choose a Riding Style
The First Great Debate: Cowboys versus Fox Hunters
Tack for You and Your Horse: A Checklist
Chapter 3: Choose a Horse
Horse Breeds: An Overview
You As a Rider
A Purebred with Papers
Other Options
More Tack: A Checklist
Chapter 4: Where to Keep Your Horse: Gimme Shelter
Indoor Living
Rings and Other Enclosures
Outdoor Living: Semi-Roughing It
Outdoor Living: Really Roughing It
Chapter 5: Where to Keep Your Horse: This Old Barn
This Old Barn, Refurbished
Shelter: A Checklist
Chapter 6: Why Your Horse Needs a Veterinarian and How to Choose a Good One
How to Find a Veterinarian
Necessary Shots
A Healthy Horse
How to Take His Vital Signs
A Sick Horse: Common Ailments
Alternative Medicine
The Long Goodbye
First Aid for Your Horse: A Checklist
First Aid for You: A Checklist
Chapter 7: Why Your Horse Needs a Farrier and How to Choose a Good One
Definitions
Basic Hoof Care
How to Find a Farrier
When Your Horse is "Off
How to Keep a Farrier
How to Help a Farrier
Hoof Health: A Checklist
Chapter 8: Basic Food Facts: Feeding and Watering Your Horse
When Horses Were Wild
Protein, Fat, and Fiber
Balancing Nutrients
The Second Great Debate: Calcium versus Phosphorus
Hay: Where to Buy It and What to Look For
The Horse Condition Scorecard
Kyle the Goat: A Survivor's Story
Feed: A Checklist
Chapter 9: Advanced Food Facts: Supplements and Senior Horse Care
Why Feed Supplements?
Educate Yourself
Senior Care from Teeth to Tail
Do the Right Thing
Don't Eat That-It's Poison!
Chapter 10: How to Buy a Horse (Finally!)
Do Horses Read?
Questions for the Owner
Five Buying Tips
What Belongs in Your Grooming Box: A Checklist
Chapter 11: Delivery Day: How to Prepare and What to Expect
Day 1
Day 2
Feed: The Big Switch
Day 3
Chapter 12: The World According to Horses
How Horses Defend Themselves: Flee, Fight, or Freeze
The History of Horses
Kissing Cousins
The Horse's Five Senses
The Herd Instinct
Buy Your Horse a Buddy
Does Your Horse Trust You?
Chapter 13: Time to Saddle Up and Hit the Trail
But First-Breakfast
Getting Ready to Ride
Riding with a Buddy
Riding with a Group
Camping with Horses
Riding Solo
Chapter 14: Whispering to Your Horse: Basic Training
What Your Horse Already Knows
Bad Behavior
Annoying Behavior
Horse Logic
What You've Accomplished
Chapter 15: Whispering to Your Horse: Longeing at Liberty
Working With Your Horse
The Only Essential: A Longe Whip
Introducing Your Horse to a Longe Whip
Keep Your Lessons Short and Sweet
Free Longeing
Step 1: Start, Trot to the Left, and Stop
Step 2: Reverse and Trot to the Right
Step 3: Keep Your Horse on the Rail
Step 4: Canter to the Left
Step 5: Reverse at the Canter
Step 6: Walk Both Directions
Completely Free Longeing
You and Your Liberty Horse
Chapter 16: Whispering to Your Horse: Longeing to Solve Problems
Longeing: An Overview
The Necessary Tack
How to Longe Your Horse
Problem Solving on the Longe Line
Chapter 17: Horse Chores: What and When
How to Keep Your Horse Happy: Establish a Routine
The Third Great Debate: Blanketing Your Horse
Chapter 18: Showing Off
The Fourth Great Debate: Do You Need a Horse Trailer?
Warning: Showing Horses Can Be Addictive
Show Grooming
Chapter 19: Keeping Fit: You and Your Horse
You
Your Horse
You and Your Horse
Riding with a Disability
Appendix I: A Glossary of Horse Terms
Appendix II: Additional Sources of Information
Magazines, Newsletters, and Books for General Horse Care Information
Internet Sources for General Horse Care Information
Index

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