An edition of Dr. Alice Says (1999)

Dr. Alice Says

Healthy Horses Seldom Burp!

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Healthy Horses Seldom Burp!

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First Sentence

"So you've got a large, solid-hoofed quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times and employed as a beast of draft and burden, or for carrying a rider."

Table of Contents

Preface
1. So You've Got One
Page 15
What Is It? - A Breed, Conformation, Skeletal Structure, Foot Flight
Page 15
What Gives Him the Power? - Muscles and How They Work
Page 20
What Is He Good For? - How a Horse Moves
Page 24
When He Ain't Movin' Right - How to Detect Lameness
Page 27
What Does One Do? - The Uses of Horses, Their Gaits and Movements
Page 31
A Horse of Another Color - The Nature and Meaning of Coloration
Page 33
What a Horse Is Not - Mules and Donkeys
Page 38
2. Can a Horse's Dogs Bark?
Page 41
What the Hoof Is and Does - Hoof Maladies
Page 41
Rules to Stand On - The Hoof in Detail, Hoof Diagram, Importance of Proper Shoeing
Page 44
Thrush Is a Dirty Bird
Page 48
Founder Is Not Sounder - Laminitis
Page 49
Commonly 'Unwanted' - Ringbone, Sidebone
Page 52
The Disease That Isn't - Navicular Condition
Page 55
3. He's Got Senses, and a Vocabulary!
Page 59
Horses - Communication and Horsemanship
Page 59
Instincts Result in Behavior - Making the Most of the Horse's Natural Inclinations
Page 61
Ears to Hear and Hold - Coping with Ears
Page 64
Good Lookers Are Smart - Understanding the Horse's Remarkable Eyes
Page 67
Skin - Deep - The Great Sensitivity
Page 70
Open Wide - Teeth: Care, Determining Age, Tushes, Tongue: Description, Injuries
Page 72
Who Knows the Nose? - The Inscrutable Nose
Page 76
4. Does He Look Hungry?
Page 81
What, How Much, When and How to Feed
Page 81
Supplements - Needed or Not?
Page 86
Vitamins - A to Minerals
Page 87
Horses Seldom Burp! - Where the Feed Goes
Page 91
Pure Poison - Plants That Kill
Page 94
Cool, Clear Water - Nothing Better
Page 96
Lots of Chew, No Nutrition - Wood Isn't Food
Page 98
Everybody Likes a Treat - Special Foods
Page 101
5. What's Normal?
Page 103
Taking Your Horse's Vital Signs - Lots of Things You Should Know
Page 103
What Condition Is Your Horse's Condition In?
Page 105
What's It All About? - Alternative Medicine
Page 107
Ouch! - First Aid for Horses
Page 109
Oh, My Tummy Aches! - Colic Is a Big Pain
Page 112
An Interesting Contradiction - Inflammation
Page 114
New Name, Old Problem - Azoturia
Page 116
Bandages Should Protect - Bandaging for a Purpose, Not for Appearance
Page 118
The Same, But Different - Strangles and Distemper
Page 121
The Medicine Chest - Some Things Are Worth Having, Some Are Not
Page 123
6. Not Up His Nose with a Rubber Hose
Page 127
Worms and Deworming - Things Are Different
Page 127
Tetanus and Other Shots
Page 130
Recommended Health Procedures
Page 133
Horses Need Exercise - Meeting Horses' Needs
Page 134
Starting Young Horses - Two Rules to Make Saddle Breaking a Snap
Page 136
Bits Are Simple - Snaffles and Curbs Explained
Page 139
It Feels Good to Him! - Grooming, Brushing, and Bathing
Page 142
7. A Place to Hang a Halter
Page 149
Housing that makes horses happy
Page 149
What a barn needs
Page 151
Fight the good fight - the constant fly problem
Page 152
Hot days are hard - summer care
Page 154
More about salt
Page 156
When winter winds blow - cold weather care
Page 157
How do you know his jammys fit?
Page 160
Just snoozing - the ways horses sleep
Page 161
8. Everyone Grows Older
Page 163
The Horse Birthday Controversy
Page 163
There Will Be More - Breeding Criteria
Page 165
If You're Going to Breed, Study Genetics - A Subject That Breeds Confusion
Page 167
Don't Boil Water or Spank Bottoms!
Page 169
Imprinting Is a Good Idea
Page 172
Someone Must Be a Good Mommy - Orphaned Foals Need Assistance
Page 173
Out on His Own - Weaning Time
Page 175
Be Smart, Geld - Improving the Horse
Page 178
So You'll Know Him - The Zodiac Horse
Page 180
Guardian Angels Protect Horses and Owners
Page 182
Appendix
Page 185
Index
Page 188

Classifications

Library of Congress
SF285.3 .B545 1999

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
192
Dimensions
8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
Weight
10.6 ounces

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL9663084M
Internet Archive
dralicesayshealt0000blaz
ISBN 10
0966012720
ISBN 13
9780966012729
LCCN
99490719
OCLC/WorldCat
42889889
Goodreads
829929

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2777952W

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