Horse Health Care: A Step-By-Step Photographic Guide to Mastering Over 100 Horsekeeping Skills

by Cherry Hill, Richard Klimesh

A healthy horse is a happy horse. Packed with dozens of essential health care skills every horse owner should know, this guide will help you keep your animal healthy, save you money, and make your horse operation more self-sufficient. Cherry Hill provides illustrated step-by-step instructions for routine medical maintenance like hoof care, dental exams, and checking vital signs, while also showing you how to deal with an injured horse and the correct techniques for treating wounds, giving injections, wrapping a leg, and preventing infection.

Genres: Horses, Animals

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 4, 1997

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Cherry Hill is the internationally known best-selling author of more than 30 non-fiction horse books, including How to Think Like a Horse, Horsekeeping on a Small Acreage, and 101 Arena Exercises. Her books have been translated into eleven languages; most are published by the Hachette Book Group. She has also written over 1,000 articles for popular equine publications.
Besides writing, Cherry has been a university instructor, horse trainer, and show judge. Born in Michigan, she’s lived in Canada, Alaska and six other US states. Cherry and her husband live on their ranch in Colorado, where Cherry cooks three meals a day from scratch, rides a mountain trike, and plays an Estonia grand piano.

Reviews

[Heidi Thompson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Informational, but not what I was looking for..

[Md · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was hoping to find something new but it's good info for beginners.

[Rena Sherwood · Rating 3 out of 5]

My copy has a different cover than what is shown here at Goodreads. Mine looks like this:



When I got this I thought it was about horse first aid or just focusing on horse health problems. However, the topics covered seemed to go all over the place, from routine worming to types of horse blankets. Some of the material here can be found in just about any other horse care book (such as an anatomical chart) but some of it was quite good, such as how to properly pick out a hoof or put on a fly mask or make a bran (or other grain) mash.

I think this is one of those books that is more read by writers writing horse related stories or articles than by actual horse owners. Still, I wish the book had been available when I was a racehorse groom in the early 1990s. The book does not lie down flat so I could not take it into the stable and follow the directions but still ...

I did like that some of the horses seen in How to Think Like a Horse (my only other Cherry Hill book) appear here as well.