In this course you will be introduced to the best route to providing well balanced diets for a variety of horses and ponies. When combined with good care and management, your newly learned skill will result in healthy, happy and stress free animals. Maintaining a happy and relaxed frame of mind helps to produce horses and ponies who really enjoy their work and show a willingness to please.
The course covers the following topics:

• The different types of feed in common use today;
• The basic make up of feed and how the various parts are used by the body;
• What some of the various feeds consist of and how they work;
• Types of bulk high fibre food such as Hay, Haylage and Horsehage.
• How to feed different horses with different life styles;
• How to select the right sort of feed for a particular horse;
• What risks you might encounter with behavioural and health problems if a horse is fed the wrong food, the wrong type of food or is incorrectly fed;
• How to prevent these things going wrong;
• Preparing feed charts for a number of horses;
• The importance of vitamins and minerals and the use of additives;

Course delivery

On completion of the course, send in the required assignments for checking by your tutor. You will be awarded a Lingfield Equine Certificate on successful completion.

Post

Postal courses: will be sent within 7 - 10 days of receipt of the enrolment form. Prices include delivery to UK mainland addresses.

Email

Email courses: are, as a rule, sent within 24 - 48 hours on weekdays. Course material is exactly the same as the postal course and is sent by e attachment. You may of course print the material.

Email courses are much quicker and far more flexible. You can have the course on your computer as well as on paper, you can send it to your work address to work on in your lunch hour, as well as working at home. You can even put it on your laptop and take it on holiday! Research and assignments can be worked on at any time in the same way.

Enrol

Course Fees:

• via E.mail £129
• via Post £159

If paying by credit or debit card, please enrol online, otherwise please print the enrolment form and send it in with your cheque

Syllabus

The Syllabus includes:

• Course Introduction
• Study guides etc.
• Assignments are provided throughout the course
• Introduction to feeding
• Dictionary of Feeding Terms
• The horse’s digestive system (made easy)
• How horses eat in the wild and how it relates to feeding your horse
• Importance of keeping feeding as natural as possible
• Types of food split into 3 easy sections or categories
• The basics of feeds and requirements for a healthy diet
• Rules of feeding and reasons for rules
• Working out how much to feed
• Behavioural problems associated with feeding
• Additives and supplements (vitamins and minerals)
• Feeding for specific situations, young, old/veteran, in-foal etc.
• Ill health problems associated with feeding, i.e. Laminitis, Colic etc.
• Worming
• Teeth
• Final assignment for Certification