EquineMajor Program

240

Total Hours

Contributed.

713

Contacts

with Local Stakeholders.

0

Hours

of Multistate Efforts.

5

Total Number

of Volunteers Engaged.

Program Indicators

Number of people who increased knowledge of horse health, nutrition, and care

316

Number of equine owners/ operators who demonstrates good animal health practices (i.e. track drug use, chemicals, feed additives and movement, change vaccination and/or antibiotics protocols as appropriate, deworming strategy, treat disorder properly)

29

Number of equine owners/operators who adopted best practices to improve or maintain animal nutriton by selecting feed based on ingredients, using body conditioning scores, use a complete mineral supplement, use hay test analysis, and/or calculating supplemental nutrition for the life cycle  

38

Stories

Growing Equine Education in Bracken County

After many years without equine programming in Bracken County, the Extension Office launched a new Equine Education Series, addressing the needs of local horse owners. The response has been tremendous, starting with 4 attendees at our first session on equine nutrition and growing steadily. Sessions on equine dentistry, groundwork, and contest basics have drawn increasing interest, with our most recent session reaching 23 participants.Of those 23 nearly half of the participants were Amish which r...

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Growing Equine Education in Bracken County

Stories Behind the Numbers

  • Growing Equine Education in Bracken County

    After many years without equine programming in Bracken County, the Extension Office launched a new Equine Education Series, addressing the needs of local horse owners. The response has been tremendous... Read More

  • Equine Education Event

    Most people have heard of the term horse foundering. Few know that the proper term for this is laminitis. According to Dr. Kim Young, DMV, laminitis was one of the common problems that Marshall County... Read More

  • Equine Farm Expo for Horsemen

    In order to help equine producers be efficient and profitable, Central Kentucky County Extension Agents for Agriculture & Natural Resources collaborated with Ag Equine Programs to offer the Equine Exp... Read More

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