A better understanding of horse behaviour can help you improve your relationship with your own horse and give you the confidence to make better-informed choices about riding, handling, training and competing.
This course, from equine behaviour consultant Justine Harrison, is an introduction to horse behaviour. You will learn about different aspects of the horse's natural behaviour and as a result, benefit from an improved understanding of how your own horse behaves.
You will learn about:
• Natural horse behaviour
• The horse's behavioural needs
• The horse's social life
• Herd structure
• Different aspects of horse behaviour – including play, sleep, movement and maintenance behaviours
• Stress and how it affects the horse
• The horse's major stressors
• How common behaviour problems can develop and how to avoid them
• Tips to improve your horse’s behaviour
• How to enrich your horse's environment for better welfare
This course is aimed at horse owners, students and equestrian professionals interested in learning about horse behaviour. You don't need to have any prior knowledge of horse behaviour to take this course.
Once enrolled you have 30 days to complete the course.
What an amazing course!! Thank you for offering this. I hope more people seek out how to better understand their horse, and it’s needs! This is the place...
Read MoreWhat an amazing course!! Thank you for offering this. I hope more people seek out how to better understand their horse, and it’s needs! This is the place to start.
Read LessI am so utterly amazed by this course ..love love it
I am so utterly amazed by this course ..love love it
Read LessThis course was easy to follow and tremendously informative. I've been around horses all my life and was totally surprised by what I didn't know!!!
This course was easy to follow and tremendously informative. I've been around horses all my life and was totally surprised by what I didn't know!!!
Read LessThis course was excellent. Information was provided clearly and logically. It provides information that every horse carer should learn about, extremely rel...
Read MoreThis course was excellent. Information was provided clearly and logically. It provides information that every horse carer should learn about, extremely relevent from novice to experienced equine carers. Thank you
Read LessA thoughtful and illuminating series of talks.
A thoughtful and illuminating series of talks.
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Love it
Read LessThis is a great course - well worth the money
This is a great course - well worth the money
Read LessI am one of a group of volunteers who keep an eye on a herd of conservation grazing semi-feral Exmoor ponies, all geldings, and from this first course I have...
Read MoreI am one of a group of volunteers who keep an eye on a herd of conservation grazing semi-feral Exmoor ponies, all geldings, and from this first course I have recognised many of the behaviours of the herd especially how there often isn't one particular leader and if one pony decides to move to another area to graze or perhaps drink at the trough or drink or paddle in the pond, very often the others will follow. It is interesting to learn from the Connemara breeder in the US how mares rarely play with their foals unlike the stallions who teach their offspring how to behave. I had no idea that 60 million years ago how the earliest 'horse', the Eohippus, had five toes, was about the size of a dog and had eyes at the front of its head and over millions of years the five toes eventually grew into a hoof and their eyes moved from the front to the sides of their head. I recognised the pair-bonding mentioned in the course and in our Exmoor herd the same pairs will often play-fight together. Two Exmoors joined the herd at the same time several months ago and they have stayed together like a bonded pair and are always side by side to snooze or to graze. There is one particular pony that will sometimes chase one of the two newer herd members and the pair will both move off together away from him.
Read LessVery interesting, thoroughly enjoyed taking the course and so many parallels to human behaviour.
Very interesting, thoroughly enjoyed taking the course and so many parallels to human behaviour.
Read LessExcellent course, so much information in an easy to understand format
Excellent course, so much information in an easy to understand format
Read LessReally enjoying this as it clarifies many thoughts I have
Really enjoying this as it clarifies many thoughts I have
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JUSTINE HARRISON
£29.00
