PETS & LEARNING

Horse Care Academy

Learn to care for horses, ponies and donkeys. Five modules: before you take one on (the five welfare needs, skills, costs, emergency and end-of-life plans), environment (shelter and rugs, grazing land, poisonous plants and ragwort, fences, stables), feeding and water (fibre first, concentrates and colic, water, weight, laminitis and donkeys), behaviour and company (turnout, humane training, companions) and health (signs of illness, worm counts and vaccines, teeth and feet, flies, tack and travel, passports and old age). Based on Defra’s Code of Practice for the Welfare of Horses, Ponies, Donkeys and Their Hybrids (Open Government Licence). Tools: daily water, grazing land, stable sizes, farrier dates and fence heights.

Ready to try · Learn to care for horses, ponies and donkeys. Five modules: before you take one on (the five welfare needs, skills, costs, emergency and end-of-life plans), environment (shelter and rugs, grazing land, poisonous plants and ragwort, fences, stables), feeding and water (fibre first, concentrates and colic, water, weight, laminitis and donkeys), behaviour and company (turnout, humane training, companions) and health (signs of illness, worm counts and vaccines, teeth and feet, flies, tack and travel, passports and old age). Based on Defra’s Code of Practice for the Welfare of Horses, Ponies, Donkeys and Their Hybrids (Open Government Licence). Tools: daily water, grazing land, stable sizes, farrier dates and fence heights.