Vigot - Book "Horse Care: 100 Tips"

• What better source for a horse care book than the lived experience of a veterinarian built over many years of practice?
• Based on the most common equine health issues, this book offers a comprehensive range of practical answers and original tips on horse care.
• You will find the guidance you need to:
• confidently carrying out routine nursing care for horses: taking temperature, estimating weight, administering remedies intravenously or orally, and more;
• learning to handle and restrain the horse in order to intervene quickly and safely;
• reliably identifying the most common conditions using simple diagnostic keys: coughing, lameness, back pain, skin problems, and more;
• mastering emergency techniques to handle critical situations where the horse's life may be at risk: applying an effective tourniquet, keeping a horse down, assessing the severity of colic, and more;
• preventing issues before they arise, through a thorough understanding of equine health fundamentals: balancing the diet, managing weight, avoiding azoturia, and more.
• knowing when and how to act in matters of breeding and reproduction: recognising heat cycles, monitoring gestation, supporting foaling, and more.

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