How To Raise Horses: Everything You Need To Know

Whether it's a friendly riding companion or a show horse, the expert advice in this hands-on guidebook provides all the information you'll need, including health care, housing, feed requirements, and raising foals. An essential primer for the newcomer to horse care, as well as an invaluable resource for the veteran, this guide includes more than 200 color photos and covers all the basics such as the finer points of choosing the right breed, how to purchase a horse, boarding and housing needs, breeding, and training.
Easy-to-follow advice helps you to:
- Choose a breed and purchase a horse
- House and feed horses
- Manage your horses and keep them healthy
- Breeding programs
- Deliver and raise foals
- Show horses at fairs and club meets
- Raise horses on your farm or boarding stable
Since 1928, the National FFA Organization, formerly known as Future Farmers of America, has been dedicated to agricultural education. Today, there are more than 490,000 members in 7,210 chapters in all 50 states as well as 5,000,000 alumni around the country.
The contents of this book were reviewed and approved by Dr. Clint Rusk, Purdue University Associate Professor of the Youth Development and Ag. Education Department, in accordance with industry standards.
Daniel Johnson manages his family-owned horse farm, overseeing breeding, training, and showing of their horses. Samantha Johnson is a certified horse show judge. They both live at Fox Hill Farm, Wisconsin.


The show horse or the racing steed, the friendly mount or the breeding stallion, the draft horse or the companion: Whatever sort of horse you're raising--or even thinking about raising--this book provides all the information you'll need, such as basic health care, housing, feed, and raising foals. An essential primer for the newcomer to horse care as well as an invaluable resource for the veteran, this clearly and amply illustrated guide covers the basics and the finer points of breeding and health care, housing and exercising, feed and nutrition requirements. It should find a place in every horse lover's library.