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Registration

Equine Growth and Development

  • January 22nd, 2010
  • 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  • The ISU Equine Growth and Development Short Course is designed to assist equine owners with understanding how young equine grow and develop. Equine owners will gain valuable insight on preventing health problems and maintaining proper development of foals from birth to one year of age.
  • Equine Growth and Development Flyer

Mare and Foal Workshop

  • February 13th and 14th, 2010
  • All horse owners, mare and/or stallion managers, foaling attendants, and other breeding farm personnel will benefit from this program. Topics to include Mare management, hormonal patterns & influences on the reproductive tract; Body Condition and Reproductive Efficiency; Estrous cycle and lighting; Control of the Estrous Cycle; Progesterone Assays; Care of the Pregnant Mare; Prefoaling Management of the Mare; Late Term Pregnant Mare Care; Predicting Parturition, Foaling Procedures & Management; Complications of Pregnancy and Foaling; Post-parturient Foal Management; Foal Care; and Advanced technologies in reproduction.
  • Mare and Foal Workshop Brochure

Equine Nutrition and Feeding

  • The course is designed to assist students and equine owners in the feeding management of their horses. Course material will include digestive physiology, factors affecting digestion, determining your horse’s nutrient requirements, nutritional diseases, selecting feeds, water quality and evaluating commercial feed labels. The course will assist producers in utilizing forages to meet a horse’s requirements, pasture management, weed control and identification, and poisonous plants. Also included will be managing a feeding program for mature horses, performance horses, broodmares, foals, weanlings, yearlings and stallions. Participants will develop the skills for nutritional assessment using the computer program REINS
  • January 14th - March 25th
  • Thursday Evenings 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
  • Equine Nutrition and Feeding Flyer

For more information, you may contact the local coordinator Dr. Peggy M. Auwerda at (515) 294-5260 or peggy@iastate.edu

Forms

Current Master Equine Managers need to fill out a Recertification Form to hold their certification status.  A minimum of 3 hours of continuing education is required each year for level one and 6 hours for level two.