Description:
This 10-week course is designed to assist students and equine owners in the feeding management of their horses. Course material will include digestive physiology, factors affecting digestion, determining your horse’s nutrient requirements, nutritional diseases, selecting feeds, water quality and evaluating commercial feed labels. The course will assist producers in utilizing forages to meet a horse’s requirements, pasture management, weed control and identification, and poisonous plants. Also included will be managing a feeding program for mature horses, performance horses, broodmares, foals, weanlings, yearlings and stallions. Participants will develop the skills for nutritional assessment using the computer program REINS. January 14th - March 25th, on Thursday evenings from 6:30-8:30. For more information, visit www.extension.iastate.edu/masterequine.