Holistic Horsekeeping
by Dr. Madalyn Ward

Holistic Horsekeeping by Dr. Madalyn Ward

While modern medicine focuses primarily on treating symptoms, Dr. Ward always looks at the horse as a whole and aims for a true cure. Holistic Horsekeeping gives you practical strategies for dealing with common horse care issues including:
* Digestive and immune support
* Non-chemical solutions to common chronic problems
* Tips for reducing stress in your performance horse

Yvonne: One of my favorite books -- this very comprehensive book has wonderful recommendations for more natural horse care, including nutrition and supplements, hoof care, joint health, homeopathic remedies, vaccinations, parasite control and holistic first aid. Covers equine disease and illness, and the holistic approach to their treatment. Includes a special section on performance horses. This book is excellent, both as an introduction to holistic horse care, and as a comprehensive handbook for the more advanced natural horsekeeper.

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The Centaur Reborn by Peter Speckmaier and Sabine Kells

The Centaur Reborn gives insight into how to establish optimal horse health, horsemanship, and top equine performance. In addition to a brief review on correct lifestyle and hoof care, it covers areas such as tack fit and horse nutrition, psychology, anatomy and physiology, especially as these relate to training, riding, and rehabilitation. Peter Speckmaier, one of the authors and the world's first Certified Strasser Hoofcare Specialist, is also a Chiron Jumping instructor; in this book he showns how basic Chiron jumping training can establish a horse's willing cooperation without force. Chiron-trained horses are often jumped without reins or headstalls, over obstacles such as ropes or streams of water shooting out of a garden hose. This book concludes with a brief history of Caprilli, the man who revolutionized jumping in the late 1800s.

"This book was written for everyone who has ever watched an equine performance and stood in awe, wondering how to even begin to achieve such harmony. It is for those who wish to give to their old familiar mounts whose health may be failing a new lease on life and vitality. It is for those who are frustrated by apparently inexplicable problems in their horses, from back pain to head tossing to vices that just won't go away. It is for those who want to achieve optimal perfomance in their chosen discipline, or who just want as healthy and willing and 'rideable' a horse as they can have." 172 pages.

Chiron Riding Article Information about the Chiron jumping method and the forward seat.

The Secret of Happy Horses

"The Secret of Happy Horses"
by Sabine Kells

A wee little pocket-sized book for riders, horse owners and horse enthusiasts of all ages, especially those who "want to do right by the horse".  It is a basic, fun, and inexpensive introduction to the nature of the horse and its biological needs for health and longevity, so that these often misunderstood needs can be met and the foundation for a long, healthy life can be established in an age where the majority of domestic horses suffer from lameness problems and their average lifespan is often less than half of a horse's natural lifespan. This book touches on the basic aspects that anyone who has a horse should know: horse care and boarding, horsemanship and equine psychology, tack types and fit, hoof care and lameness rehabilitation, and the importance of our own attitude or focus in achieving our goals. It is as lighthearted and fun a book as it can be, serious information generously interspersed with the delightful cartoons of Doreen Guthrie. 186 page pocket size book.

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