Healthy Horses Seldom Burp! provides accurate, dependable coverage of horse shoeing and hoof care to skin and teeth, the purposes for bandages, the value of gelding, instructions for taking your horse's vital signs and a handy reference for annual health protection. In addition you'll find lively and enlightening information on how to detect and deal with everything from thrush, ringbone, sidebone, lameness to laminitis, strangles poison plants, inflammation, worms and colic.

Dr. Alice M. Blazer, DVM and certified acupuncturist explains all the medical conditions so well, both you and your horse will know why horses seldom burp.

Never stuffy, never pompous, never too technical, this book will be read again and again and will be the reference you grab everytime you have a question.

From the Publisher
Here, at last, is a serious book on horse health care you're actually going to want to read. In fact, it's a safe bet you'll read it again and again. Healthy Horses Seldom Burp is like no other. It provides accurate, dependable coverage of everything from shoeing and hoof care to skin and teeth, the purposes for bandages, the value of gelding, instructions for taking your horse's vital signs and a hand reference for annual health protection. In addition, you'll find lively and enlightening information on how to detect and deal with everything from thrush, ringbone, sidebone, lameness to laminitis, stangles poison plants, inflammation, worms and colic.

Often very funny, this book offers a view with a twist to the standard reports on emergency first aid, feeding, winter and summer care and how to reduce the horse-fly population.

All medical, nutritional and health care information is validated by Dr. Alice M. Blazer, veterinarian and certified acupuncturist. You'll find her advice often reflects the prevailing opinions of practicing veterinarians, yet frequently takes on a more common sense horseman's approach to keeping horses healthy and happy.

From the Inside Flap
Dr. Alice M. Blazer has wanted to doctor horses for as long as she can recall. So she got a Beachelor of Science degree from the University of California at Davis aong with the "highest honors" and the university medal for the highest scholarship.

Dr. Alice was granted her doctorate in veterinary medicine from UCD with highest honors, being first in her class, and was awarded the School of Veterinary medicine medal.

Sticking horses with western meedles is good medicine, but being able to also stick them with eastern needles makes medicine even better. So Dr. Alice became certified in veterinary acupuncture by the International Veterinary Acupuncture Society.

With all those needles, a stethoscope, x-ray machines, floats, hoof testers, and bottles of pills, tablets and capsules, when Dr. Alice arrives in the pasture, horses get better, and in this book, she explains how and why.

About the Author
Don Blazer has been writing about horses for more than 35 years. Thousands of fans look to him for information and training tips (he has written several training books, teaches training techniques for Scottsdale Community College, Scottsdale, Arizona) in his nationally syndicated column, A Horse, Of Course.

In addition to writing, Don Blazer has traveled from Alaska to Australia giving hands-on how-to training clinics. When time permits, he shares his training philosophy (See Nine Secrets of Perfect Horsemanship) with clubs and associations.

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