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	Price: £165.00

	Course material sent email attachment saving time and money. Eqine Feeding & Nutrition course This Equine Feeding & Nutrition course is ideal for those who run their own yard and wish to specialise in equine nutrition. It offers free tutor support which means it is also suitable for those with less knowledge. It is therefore, not just for the experienced groom, stable manager or owner but also caters for those who may be reasonably new to feeding horses and ponies. We have tried to use easy to understand language and terminology and to avoid complicated terms as far as possible. Entry Requirements Minimum age 16 years Good all round experience with horses and equine management. Knowledge of basic feeds & feeding requirements 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. This course is also available as one element or part of the Intermediate Diploma (Feeding) programme (ID5). Short Courses - how they are sent to you The course offers free tutor support and approximately 25-40 hours of study time - depending on student input. Assignments and research projects are integral to this course. The course is delivered over a period of time as per the terms and conditions. A recommended reading list is supplied on enrolment. On completion of the course, send in your assignments for checking by your tutor. You will be awarded a Lingfield Equine Certificate on successful completion of your final assignment. Postal courses: The first section will be sent within 7 - 10 days of receipt of the enrolment form. Prices include delivery to UK mainland addresses. Email courses: are, as a rule, set up and running almost immedaitely even if the office is closed at the time of enrolment. The first section could be accessed by you within minutes of enroling. 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. Equine Feeding & Nutrition Syllabus This course covers the following topics in depth: Information and details of different types of feed in common use today; The basic make up of feed and how the various constituents are used by the body; Constituents of feeds how they react on the bodily systems; Descriptions, make up and detailed use of various types of bulk high fibre food such as Hay, Haylage and Horsehage. Explanations and detail on how to feed different horses with different life styles; Full information and details on how to select the right sort of feed for a particular horse; Risks encountered with behavioural and health problems if a horse is fed incorrectly, the wrong balance of feed, wrong type of food or a poorly balanced diet; 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; Syllabus The Syllabus also includes: Course Introduction Study guides etc. Assignments are provided throughout the course Introduction to feeding Dictionary of Feeding Terms The horse’s digestive system 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 The Team Tutor Liz McIlwraith BHSIT. Owner of Bridge House Equestrian Centre, Sussex .Author & Tutor of the Feeding & Nutrition course. Liz McIlwraith BHSIT, tutors the Feeding & Nutrition course and as a member of the Association of British Riding Schools Executive Committee is well respected in the equine industry. Liz, owns the successful the riding and competition centre, Bridge House Equestrian Centre in Slinfold, Sussex. Read more... Over the years Liz has trained numerous students and staff for their professional BHS, ABRS & NVQ qualifications. She has supported encouraged and enabled people of all standards to improve their equine management and riding skills. Liz brings to us a wide and varied knowledge base including a wealth of experience in equine nutrition. www.bridgehouse-equestrian.co.uk Co-author Paula Clements BHSAI Course Director - Tutor of the Lingfield long courses on Equine Care & Management Paula Clements heads up the Lingfield Instructor Group, tutors the Long courses and handles the general office administration for Lingfield Correspondence from the office in Somerset. Her main love of teaching riders has now had to be put on the back burner owing to the amount of administrative work in the office. Chat to Paula on Facebook Read more... Her career in the equine industry has covered a wide variety of equine posts from managing a riding school to presenting courses of lectures on equine management in Surrey, Kent and Sussex . For some years Paula, together with Fiona Dent, headed up the equine stabling and teaching sectors of several Summer Pony Club camps in Surrey, Sussex and Kent , often numbering nearly 100 horses, ponies and children and a team of instructors. As a freelance teacher for many years her clients have ridden in assorted equestrian disciplines. Paula's involvement has included a variety of aspects of teaching, from one of her main passions which is children's classes through to training students for professional qualifications and achieve their AI. Her patience and understanding of the novice rider together with the ability to explain things in a way which is easily understood, has meant she achieved enormous success with teaching novice and nervous adults encouraging them to overcome their fears and problems. With Paula's encouragement her clients achieve their goals and enjoy their riding. They learn to respect and love horses with a variety of characters and temperaments and understand how to get the best from their horses. Paula has always felt it important that to improve their riding, people need to understand more about the horse itself, and should understand why it reacts in the way it does. Alongside their riding lessons, she has always encouraged her clients to improve their understanding of the psychology of the horse as well as expanding their equine management knowledge. How to Enrol Enrolment & Instalment Details There are several ways to pay for your courses - to enrol right now go to your chosen course via the Courses menu scroll to the very bottom and click on Enrol - see a) a) On line: Click the Enrol button at the foot of your course page, this takes you step by step through the on line payment process by debit or credit card or by Paypal. or b) Pay By Paypal direct to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it - email us to that address with course details, name and address - complete the online registration or send an enrolment form by post. (we will send you a form by email or post if you wish) c) Pay by telephone 01398-371177 and send an enrolment form by post . The office is usually open from 10am to 3.30pm on weekdays but often outside these hours too. d) Pay by UK cheque and send with an enrolment form if you prefer, or direct payment to our bank. Remember: Online registration payments allow access to email courses immediately. Instalments are available by: 1. Standing order over 3 or 6 months 2. UK post dated cheques 3. 1 x Paypal or Telephone payment with balance in UK cheques / standing order. If the office is open, access to course files is set up immediately the payment / copies of standing order are received. 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