Number of people who increased knowledge of horse health, nutrition, and care
1017.11)
25
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
1017.12)
25
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)
Many horse owners are unaware of proper conditioning and exercise needed for their horses to be a top notch athlete and several injuries have occurred because of this. After request from the NKY Horse Network for help in educating horse owners, I planned and conducted a program called "Conditioning and exercising your horse athlete". I worked with a local horse conditioning facilities and we invited horse owners and 4-H horse project youth to attend. Many of the participates stated tha