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Conventions Used in This Book |
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How This Book Is Organized |
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Part I: Honing Basic Horse Care Skills |
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Part II: Good Eats: Nutrition and Feeding |
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Part III: Recognizing and Treating Illnesses |
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Part IV: Horse Care for All Stages of Life |
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Part I: Honing Basic Horse Care Skills |
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Taking on Your Horse's Health |
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Knowing the Traits of a Healthy Horse |
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Understanding the Equine Mind's Link to Health |
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The Details of Routine Horse Care |
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Exercising for the Best Health Possible |
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Feeding Your Hungry Horse |
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Easing into the Senior Years |
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Sizing Up a Healthy Horse |
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Gauging the Signs of a Healthy Horse |
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29 | (1) |
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Adding Another Healthy Horse to the Family |
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Recognizing general signs of health before you buy |
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Connecting Your Horse's Behavior to Health |
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Seeing the world from a horse's perspective |
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Tuning in to equine communication |
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Taking note of daily equine activity |
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Detecting and Fixing Behavior Problems |
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Understanding why horses misbehave |
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Checking out common misbehaviors |
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44 | (3) |
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Getting Up to Speed on Routine Care |
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Working with Your Vet to Ensure Good Care |
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Decisions, decisions: Choosing a vet |
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Covering healthcare costs right off the bat |
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Getting an annual checkup for your horse |
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Housing Your Horse Safely and Comfortably |
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Telling the difference between different types of enclosures |
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The big question: Boarding stables versus home accommodations |
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58 | (3) |
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61 | (5) |
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Taking Care of Your Horse's Hooves |
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Cleaning the hooves yourself |
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67 | (2) |
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Ridding Your Horse of Pests and Parasites |
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69 | (4) |
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69 | (2) |
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71 | (1) |
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Smile Pretty! Caring for Your Horse's Teeth |
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73 | (2) |
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75 | (12) |
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Starting Safely with Exercise |
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75 | (2) |
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75 | (1) |
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Surveying Workout Options for Your Horse |
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77 | (5) |
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79 | (1) |
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Helping Your Horse Recover from Injuries or Illness |
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Knowing the importance of rest |
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Keeping your horse sane during lay-up |
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Returning your horse to his exercise routine |
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Part II: Good Eats: Nutrition and Feeding |
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The Building Blocks of Good Nutrition |
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Drink Up! The Importance of Water in a Horse's Diet |
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Keeping Your Horse's System Working Right with Roughage |
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Which foods are rich in fiber? |
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How much roughage should your horse have? |
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Energizing Your Horse with Carbohydrates, Protein, and Fat |
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93 | (2) |
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Understanding the Value of Vitamins |
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Telling the difference between different types of vitamins |
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Adding vitamins to your horse's diet |
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Staying Strong with Minerals |
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103 | (4) |
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Your Hungry Horse: Feeding Fundamentals |
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Hay Now! Choosing Hay for Your Horse |
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Why choose hay for your horse? |
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Looking at different types of hay |
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Distinguishing between different types of bales |
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Grazing Time: Providing Pasture for Your Horse |
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Why choose pasture for your horse? |
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Surveying different types of pasture |
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Switching your horse from hay to pasture |
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Complete feeds for the old and young |
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Feeds for special circumstances |
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Feeding Your Horse Properly |
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The right amount at each feeding time |
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Choosing to feed alone or in a herd |
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Special Considerations for Your Horse's Diet |
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The Skinny on Dietary Supplements |
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Determining when supplements truly are necessary |
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Surveying different types of supplements |
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Choosing a quality supplement |
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Feeding supplements to your equine friend |
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Helping Horses with Weight Problems |
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132 | (3) |
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Controlling Allergies with Diet |
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Recognizing signs of allergies |
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Checking out options for allergic horses |
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Affecting Your Horse's Behavior with Diet |
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Food-related misbehaviors |
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Changing your ``hot'' horse's diet |
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Before You Begin: The Basics of Growing Food for Horses |
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The benefits of growing food |
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A hard look at the responsibilities of growing food |
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Starting and Maintaining a Pasture |
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The stuff you need before you do anything |
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143 | (1) |
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144 | (1) |
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145 | (1) |
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145 | (1) |
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148 | (1) |
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Harvesting Hay for the Future |
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Cutting hay in your pasture |
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149 | (1) |
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151 | (2) |
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Part III: Recognizing and Treating Illnesses |
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Introducing the Anatomy of a Horse |
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The Workings of Your Horse's Innards |
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Start your engine: The cardiovascular system |
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156 | (2) |
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Eat up! The digestive system |
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158 | (2) |
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Raging hormones: The endocrine system |
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160 | (1) |
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Fighting off germs: The immune system |
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160 | (1) |
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Strong stuff: The muscular system |
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161 | (1) |
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Feeling sensitive: The nervous system |
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162 | (1) |
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Breathe in, breathe out: The respiratory system |
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162 | (1) |
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Boning up on the skeletal system |
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163 | (1) |
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Wasting away: The urinary system |
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Important Parts on the Outside of Your Horse |
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To serve and protect: The skin |
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165 | (1) |
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166 | (2) |
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Taking a bite out of the teeth |
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171 | (2) |
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Getting a Leg Up on Soundness Issues |
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173 | (12) |
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174 | (1) |
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178 | (3) |
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181 | (1) |
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Osteochondritis Dissecans (OCD) |
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182 | (1) |
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183 | (1) |
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Trying to Stomach Digestive Problems |
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185 | (5) |
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Saving Your Horse's Skin: Examining Skin Disorders |
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193 | (1) |
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Watching Out for Eye Problems |
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196 | (1) |
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Equine recurrent uveitis (ERU) |
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198 | (1) |
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A Common Respiratory Problem: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease |
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Surveying Other Systemic Problems |
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Exertional rhabdomyolysis (tying up) |
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201 | (1) |
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Fighting Infectious Diseases |
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A Toxin Produced by Bacteria: Botulism |
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205 | (2) |
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206 | (1) |
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Affecting the Nervous System: Encephalomyelitis |
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207 | (2) |
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207 | (1) |
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208 | (1) |
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208 | (1) |
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A Disease in Three Forms: Equine Herpes Virus (EHV) |
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209 | (1) |
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209 | (1) |
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209 | (1) |
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210 | (1) |
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Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) |
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210 | (1) |
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210 | (1) |
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210 | (1) |
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211 | (1) |
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Hitting the Respiratory System: Equine Influenza |
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211 | (2) |
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212 | (1) |
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212 | (1) |
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212 | (1) |
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A Common Neurological Disease: Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis (EPM) |
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213 | (1) |
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213 | (1) |
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213 | (1) |
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214 | (1) |
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Beware of Ticks! Lyme Disease |
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214 | (1) |
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214 | (1) |
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214 | (1) |
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A Fatal Neurological Disease: Rabies |
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215 | (1) |
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215 | (1) |
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215 | (1) |
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216 | (1) |
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A Nasty Bacterial Disease: Strangles |
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216 | (2) |
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216 | (1) |
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217 | (1) |
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218 | (1) |
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A Lockup of the Muscles: Tetanus |
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218 | (1) |
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219 | (1) |
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219 | (1) |
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219 | (1) |
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Attacking the Brain: West Nile Virus |
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219 | (2) |
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220 | (1) |
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Staying Prepared with Equine First Aid |
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221 | (18) |
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Gathering the Right Tools and Information for Emergencies |
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221 | (5) |
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Staying aware of your horse's health |
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222 | (1) |
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Assembling a first-aid kit |
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223 | (1) |
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Considering the possibility of natural disasters |
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224 | (2) |
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Approaching an Injured Horse |
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226 | (1) |
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227 | (9) |
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227 | (4) |
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231 | (1) |
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231 | (3) |
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234 | (1) |
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234 | (1) |
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235 | (1) |
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Knowing When to Call the Vet Immediately |
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236 | (3) |
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Checking Out Complementary and Alternative Therapies |
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239 | (12) |
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Understanding Which Treatments May Help Your Horse |
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240 | (8) |
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Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine |
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240 | (2) |
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242 | (1) |
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242 | (1) |
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243 | (1) |
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244 | (1) |
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245 | (1) |
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245 | (1) |
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246 | (1) |
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247 | (1) |
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247 | (1) |
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248 | (3) |
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Part IV: Horse Care for all Stages of Life |
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251 | (58) |
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253 | (22) |
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253 | (5) |
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The female horse's system |
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253 | (1) |
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254 | (1) |
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255 | (2) |
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Possible reproductive problems |
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257 | (1) |
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Determining Whether You Should Breed Your Horse |
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258 | (3) |
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Understanding the responsibilities of having a foal in the family |
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258 | (1) |
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259 | (1) |
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260 | (1) |
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Surveying Different Breeding Methods |
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261 | (4) |
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261 | (1) |
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262 | (1) |
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263 | (2) |
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The Skinny on Horse Pregnancy |
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265 | (5) |
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Verifying that your horse is pregnant |
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266 | (1) |
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Looking at the stages of pregnancy |
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267 | (1) |
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268 | (2) |
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Staying aware of possible pregnancy problems |
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270 | (1) |
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Preparing a place for foaling |
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270 | (1) |
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Recognizing the signs of foaling |
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271 | (1) |
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Taking action just before foaling |
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272 | (1) |
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Watching the stages of foaling |
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272 | (1) |
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272 | (2) |
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Keeping an eye out for possible problems during and after foaling |
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274 | (1) |
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275 | (14) |
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Monitoring Mom and Baby after Delivery |
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275 | (4) |
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276 | (2) |
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278 | (1) |
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Providing Healthcare and Good Nutrition for Mom and Baby |
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279 | (3) |
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Taking care of the first vet appointment after delivery |
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279 | (1) |
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280 | (1) |
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Recognizing and treating foal-specific health problems |
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281 | (1) |
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Training Your Baby Horse Early On |
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282 | (7) |
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282 | (2) |
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284 | (1) |
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285 | (1) |
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286 | (1) |
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287 | (2) |
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Helping Your Horse Age Gracefully |
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289 | (12) |
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289 | (1) |
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Handling Common Health Issues in Your Senior Horse |
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290 | (4) |
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290 | (1) |
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291 | (1) |
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292 | (1) |
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An inability to keep weight on |
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293 | (1) |
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293 | (1) |
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Feeding Your Senior Horse |
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294 | (1) |
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Making Sure Your Senior Horse Stays Active |
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295 | (2) |
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295 | (1) |
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296 | (1) |
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297 | (1) |
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Retiring Your Senior Horse |
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297 | (4) |
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Judging your horse's condition |
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297 | (1) |
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298 | (1) |
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Putting your horse out to pasture |
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298 | (3) |
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Reaching the End of Your Horse's Life |
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301 | (8) |
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Facing the Process of Euthanasia |
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302 | (2) |
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Deciding when it's time to put down your horse |
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302 | (2) |
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Understanding how euthanasia works |
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304 | (1) |
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Taking Care of Your Horse's Remains |
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304 | (2) |
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304 | (1) |
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305 | (1) |
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305 | (1) |
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306 | (3) |
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Surveying the stages of grief |
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306 | (1) |
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Remembering and honoring your horse |
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307 | (2) |
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309 | (18) |
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Ten Signs of Horse Illness |
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311 | (8) |
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311 | (1) |
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312 | (1) |
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An Inability to Pass Manure |
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312 | (1) |
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313 | (1) |
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313 | (1) |
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314 | (1) |
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315 | (1) |
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315 | (1) |
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316 | (1) |
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316 | (3) |
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Ten Ways to Keep Your Horse Healthy |
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319 | (8) |
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319 | (1) |
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Schedule an Annual Vet Exam |
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320 | (1) |
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Have Your Horse Vaccinated Annually |
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321 | (1) |
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File Your Horse's Teeth Regularly |
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322 | (1) |
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Take Good Care of Your Horse's Hooves |
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322 | (1) |
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323 | (1) |
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323 | (1) |
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324 | (1) |
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Keep Your Horse at an Optimum Weight |
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324 | (1) |
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325 | (2) |
| Appendix: Resources for Horse Care |
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327 | (12) |
| Index |
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