The Complete Performance Horse - NMD 119

by David and Charles

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Improve the performance of your horse by following these sound principles of care and management. Ensure that your horse can perform his best in a competition.

 

Price: £12.99

This book brings together the four most important aspects of the veterinary care of the competition horse: feeding, training, preventive medicine and treatment. The author's gift for explaining complex scientific principles in a way that can be understood easily means that this book will be the competitor's first point of reference.

Author Biography:
Colin Vogel is a partner in a veterinary practice that specializes in equines. For many years he has been Horse and Hound's veterinary correspondent and he is also an experienced author. He lives and practises in Fakenham, Norfolk.

Feeding
- The digestive system
- Energy
- Protein
- Minerals and vitamins
- Feeding for performance
- When things go wrong
- Fitness
- What is fitness? The problem of fatigue
- Measuring fitness
- Training
- First aid and fitness
- Preventive Medicine
- Infectious and contagious disease
- Immunity and disease
- Equine parasites
- Lameness
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Foot lameness
- Tendon and ligament injurues
- Joint problems
- Fractures and bone problems
- Muscle problems
- Back prob