Explains bandaging, giving shots, examining teeth, deworming, and preventive care. Exercising and cooling down, hoof care, and tending wounds are depicted,

along with taking a horse's temperature and determining pulse and respiration rates.

Want to know the best ways to care for your horse? Horse Health and Nutrition For Dummies gives you up-to-the-minute guidance on keeping horses healthy at all stages of life. It provides the latest information on equine nutrition and healthcare, explaining how your horse’s body functions and how to keep it in good working order.

Packed with practical advice on equine first aid and alternative therapies, this completely practical, plain-English guide explains exactly what to feed your four-legged “hayburner” and how much. You’ll find out what kind of preventive care is vital to keeping your horse in good physical shape and how to recognize signs of illness when things go wrong. You’ll get the low-down on the diseases and conditions most likely to plague the domestic horse and find help in deciding whether to treat problems yourself or call the vet. Discover how to:

• Manage your horse’s diet
• House your horse safely and comfortably
• Tend to the daily details of horse care
• Examine coat, eyes, hooves and manure
• Identify, control, and prevent equine diseases
• Understand links between horse behavior and health
• Practice good horse nutrition
• Grow your own horse food
• Cover horse-health-care costs
• Breed your horse
• Care for pregnant mares and newborns

A healthy horse is a happy horse. Keep your horse fit with a little help from Horse Health and Nutrition For Dummies, and you’ll be happy too!

No horse farmer wants to think about sick or hurt animals, but such situations do occur at some point on every farm. When a horse isn’t well, the reference every owner will turn to first is Storey’s Barn Guide to Horse Health Care + First Aid. With a nail-hole at the top of each page spread, the book can hang on a barn wall as a hands-free visual guide to every health situation likely to occur.

Graphic step-by-step presentations guide farmers through daily health checks, basic dental and hoof care, preventive procedures, emergency first aid care, and wound treatment. The book also features full-color anatomical illustrations, feeding and nutritional charts, a recordkeeping section, and a checklist of first-aid supplies. The Emergency and Wounds sections both begin with careful instructions on when to call the veterinarian and what to do until professional help arrives.

Always available to guide horse farmers through basic equine health procedures, this Barn Guide will be a handy reference and an invaluable practical resource on every horse farm.

This is a veterinary book with enough depth of information to be genuinely useful, and which justifies its 'workbook' title by presenting its contents in an easy-to-use and practical way. The author has identified the eight most common syndromes with which he is regularly faced in his busy equine practice, and offers thorough advice on dealing with them successfully. It features easy-to-follow guidance for diagnosis; step-by-step illustrated advice for treatments, and clear specialist photographs to help identify problems.