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Recently updated and extended, The Horse Illustrated Guide to Caring for Your Horse covers the fundamentals - from diet and health care to tacking and trailering your horse. Complete with step-by-step instructions, countless tips, full-color photos, and easy-to-use glossary, this book takes the guesswork out of caring for your horse.
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Horses, by their very nature, are mythic creatures - they represent in our collective imagination aspects of the human journey at its greatest. In Riding into Your Mythic Life, therapeutic riding instructor Patricia Broersma invites readers on an experiential journey of transformation with these powerful creatures, offering ways to explore life's events as part of one's own mythic journey. Broersma has developed her theories over twenty years of working...
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Horse Lover's Daily Companion is a unique, easy-to-use, and inspiring handbook filled with a year's worth of insight, helpful tips, and practical advice into the equine-human relationship for all horse lovers and owners. Whether you're a riding veteran or someone who's simply pined away for horses since childhood, this book will provide you with a lifetime's worth of ways to enjoy and appreciate horses, whether or not you have 40 acres and a stable...
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On a trip to Scotland, the psychotherapist family team of Adele, Deborah, and Thomas McCormick - pioneers in the psychotherapeutic use of horses - discovered that early Celtic mysticism held important insights into an equestrian-partnered spirituality. The McCormicks show how to integrate this spirituality with psychology, forming a new, powerful form of healing. Horses and the Mystical Path recounts their memorable journey and the lessons they learned...
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If you own a horse, you need this book. Speaking to your horse, in a way that the horse can understand creates a bond and allows drivers and riders to master horsemanship.
This book teaches horse communication and horse communication signals. These skills are vital to carriage driving. From this book, you will learn horse vocal communication, body language, and social positioning and how, these affect, how a horse drives and is, driven. Understanding...
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A landmark breeding resource for new and seasoned horse owners alike
With millions of recreational riders on the bridle paths today, breeding is becoming increasingly popular among horse owners at all experience levels. Whether you are already enjoying the rich rewards of equine breeding or need down-to-earth advice on whether breeding is right for you and your animal, the Veterinary Guide to Horse Breeding offers a thorough, up-to-date overview...
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Every trainer, horse specialist and everyone who owns a horse should read this book. You need this book if you are training horses, have a horse or intend to get a horse this book is a must, It tells the truth about 'whip breaking', using a nerve line that most people in North America are using and don't know it. Teaching the using horse is the only book of its kind that tells the whole story. This book tells how to teach your horse, from starting...
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An invaluable resource for all who care for animals. This treasury of information, reassurance, tips, and first aid techniques for horses, dogs and cats was written in response to requests from many of Dr. Chapman's clients who have come to rely on his knowledge and understanding.
Dr. Chapman practises veterinary medicine in the old-fashioned way: feeling with his fingertips, using his eyes, ears, sense of smell and a large dose of intuition. He...
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Can you name what kind of horse can manage to pull up to 17,000 pounds as a team? Or the horse that is known as the "peacock of the horse show world"? Or what horse breed the most expensive horse ever sold was a member of (and how much it was sold for)? Horses are one of the few animals that manage to combine a majestic appearance with the ability to work hard. They are great for horse-shows, or for a fun day of riding at the ranch, but they can also...
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Daily grooming is a vital part of horse care, and this Simple Solutions title by Elizabeth Moyer encapsulates the benefits and procedure in an easy-to-read entertaining way. Grooming offers many healthful rewards to the horse and also helps to build a bond between owner and his or her horse. This guide, with colorful and instructive illustrations by Jean Abernethy, offers advice on choosing the right equipment (brushes, currycomb, hoof pick, grooming...
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Wendy Beth Baker's The Healing Power of Horses is devoted to the world's greatest horsepeople, the Oglala Lakota Indians of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. She begins the book by sharing the philosophy of these great horse-loving people: "There are those who feel the sun rises and sets on the back of a horse, and no matter what obstacles life sets in their way, they never dismount." The spirit and fortitude of the Lakota Indians inform Baker's words as...
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Completely updated with the latest information on infectious diseases, parasites, breeding and foaling, and alternative therapies, the Horse Owner's Veterinary Handbook, Third Edition is still as useful and easy to navigate as the original, classic text. With an index of signs and symptoms, a guide to the organs and body systems, a general index, cross-references, and a helpful glossary, this book will help you diagnose and treat your horse. You will...
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Besides being a great horseman, the author was also a gifted writer and skilled at drawing and painting. D'Eisenberg himself drew the famous illustrations for his book, which were subsequently engraved by B. Picart. The illustrations emphasize the subtleties of the art of riding while avoiding "the unnecessary prolixity of speech, in order not to bore" the reader. D'Eisenberg knew that his readership, at the time, was quite familiar with academic...
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Charles Wilhelm's Ultimate Foundation Training has transformed thousands of horses into more responsive, mannerly companions. In this book, Wilhelm trains you to use his tried and true principles in training your horse. Go inside the horse's mind to see how he thinks and learns, so you can communicate in a language your horse understands. Discover why and how foundation training works. Wilhelm's uniquely successful methods will help you build a relationship...
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This is the story of Lucy Long, Robert E. Lee's little mare, who served alongside Traveler in the Civil War. Though not as famous as the General 's beloved gray horse, she certainly was deeply loved. Lucy had a wonderful life filled with adventures, with periods of rest at splendid plantations of her era and peaceful days as a beloved family riding horse. For a time after the War she was lost to the Lee family. Their search for her, their eventual...
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The Howell Equestrian Library is a distinguished collection of books on all aspects of horsemanship and horse mastership. The nearly fifty books in print offer readers in all disciplines and at all levels of competition sound instruction and guidance by some of the most celebrated riders, trainers, judges, and veterinarians in the horse world today. Whether your interest is dressage, show jumping, or western riding, or whether it is breeding, grooming,...
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With twentyone dramatic true stories of courageous, loyal, and loving horses who found their life's purpose, this book reveals the wonders possible when both humans and horses are encouraged and allowed to follow their best instincts. The heroic equines you will meet include: Molly, a pony who survived Hurricane Katrina and the loss of a leg, who spreads her message of hope to disabled children. Her story went viral with coverage on the Internet,...
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Una guía sobre la anatomía y fisiología del caballo escrita para propietarios, pero también para aficionados, profesionales y especialistas, que les permitirá disponer de conocimientos básicos sobre el caballo y les ayudará a cuidarlo mejor, montarlo con garantías y conseguir el mejor rendimiento. Destaca por su carácter didáctico y divulgativo, con numerosas ilustraciones en color en las que se analiza la anatomía, los trastornos y las...
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If you are like most people, you know what you want your horse to do and how you want him to behave. You want your training experiences to be safe and enjoyable for both you and your horse. But maybe you aren't sure what to do and when. In 101 Longeing and Long Lining Exercises you'll find complete ground training lesson plans from square 1 to square 101. Cherry Hill starts with basic in-hand and free longeing lessons, then takes you through the addition...
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