Understanding the Pony: Your Guide to Horse Health Care and Management
- ISBN-10
- 1581500556
- ISBN-13
- 9781581500554
- Category
- Pets / Horses
- Pages
- 117
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Blood-Horse
- Author
- Karen Briggs
Description
Author Karen Briggs covers all the essentials in a book every pony owner will find invaluable. Topics include nutrition, reproduction, and maintaining pony health. Diseases and conditions common to ponies are discussed. Briggs outlines how ponies are used -- for jumping, driving, and other disciplines. She also covers the various pony breeds from Shetlands to Connemaras. A section on miniature horses is included.
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