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Horse Management Courses at the College of Southern Idaho

Post by: Unknown - Monday, October 15, 2012
By Heather Toms


Twin Falls, Idaho, is the home of the College of Southern Idaho, a public college that offers 2 year associate degree programs on various subjects, including Applied Science in Horse Management. Students of this programme are enabled to control horses, including their own, and work in various fields of the equine industry.

Scholars of this course have to go through basic classes on subjects like:

- Oral Communication Basics

- General Math

- English Composition I

- Social Science.

Students are also required to enrol in equine industry-specific courses such as:

- Horse Nourishment. This is a course that teaches students the physiology and anatomy of equine digestive systems. It also teaches students on nutrient function classifications and their relation to digestion and absorption, as also to metabolism in the contexts of growth, reproduction and work.

- Pony Reproduction. This course covers the physiology of equine reproductive systems, including hormones, reproductive failures and diseases, artificial insemination, embryo transfer and the like.

- Equine Judging. This course requires students to evaluate some common horse breeds for performance and conformation. Scholars must submit reasons for their assessments.

- Horse Anatomy/Infirmities. Students are required to work on identifying common equine illnesses also their locations, causes and recommended courses of treatment.

- Draft Breeds. This course requires students to survey draft breeds that are common nowadays , with inputs on their history, their characteristic conformation, principles behind advocated harnessing or hitching as well as draft pony management. The course also includes training, show procedures, foaling and breeding components, as also mandatory lab sessions where scholars discover how to handle, harness, hitch, drive, pack and care for and manage draft horses.

- Horsemanship. Students in this course are taught components of natural horsemanship, irrespective of their levels of ability and their riding discipline. They're taught how to communicate efficiently with their horses, and how to become natural partners and leaders of their horses. They're instructed on the right way to handle their horses, saddle and mount them, and ride them safely.

- Commercial Angles to Pony Raising. In this course, students are taught the basics of business based primarily on horse raising. This course includes sessions on production and marketing, as well as accounting, finance, and law and ethics

- Equitation. Scholars are offered 3 progressive levels of equitation classes. The elementary course in Equitation teaches scholars about natural horsemanship and saddling, along with mounting, riding skills and effective communication with the horses. The next level, the intermediate course on equitation, is designed to mentor scholars who've finished with the elementary course on every aspect of natural horsemanship. The third course is an advanced one, open to scholars well versed in western equitation. This course imparts high level and top quality skills that will enable them to train horses better. It is mandatory that scholars have their own horse for this class.

- English Equitation. This course teaches scholars without any previous experience in riding English riding fundamentals. Student are required to get hands on experience with grooming horses, as also mounting the horses after saddling and bridling them. A deeper Intermediate equivalent is offered to students who are more advanced riders. This course is structured for students who have put the basic course on English equitation behind them. This class stresses the importance of the right methods of maintaining posture and balance while riding. It also stresses control and figure eights while at the trot.

Scholars can also take advantage of an advanced course that emphasises show riding.




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