Overview
How should you recognize and treat stress and ailments in your horse?
Horses require people to observe, monitor and provide healthy environments. Horse handlers and owners must be familiar with signs of normal behaviour as well as signs of stress. You will compare and assess the causes, symptoms and treatments of different sources of stress. You will also identify veterinary services that help you provide care for your horse.
Horse Health Care
Horses, like people, are susceptible to, and exhibit, signs of stress. Veterinarians provide expert care, the latest technology and medications that support and improve a horse’s health and performance. What responsibility do you have to monitor your horse’s condition and obtain expert support when needed?
Module Objectives
By successfully completing this module, you will be able to:
- Recognize causes and signs of stress in horses.
- Understand how stress influences horse health and welfare.
- Identify when to contact a veterinarian.
Module Activities
This course contains many activities to help you learn and test your knowledge of the concepts taught in each module. The activity booklets contain instructions for each activity. You should save the activity booklets to a portfolio or course folder on your computer. You may want to reference the work you do in the activity booklets for your final project for the course.
At the beginning of each module, download the activity booklet for that module to your portfolio folder. Most of the activities have active fields that you can use to input your responses. ENSURE YOU HAVE THE CURRENT VERSION OF ADOBE READER INSTALLED. (Need Adobe Reader? Click here.)
Your work will be assessed by your teacher. Unless indicated otherwise by your teacher, use the rubric which accompanies the activity.
Instructions
- Create a folder for the AGR 3070 course on your computer. This is where you should save all your module booklets.
- Download the Module 3 Booklet to the AGR 3070 folder you just created.
- When you get to a place in the online module where you are supposed to complete an activity:
- Open the module booklet you saved in your course folder,
- Scroll to the relevant activity,
- Complete the task,
- SAVE your work.
At the end of the module, you will upload your completed module booklet. (HINT: see the Activities video if you need a refresher on how to use the upload tool.)
Estimated Time Required
It is estimated it will take you approximately 2 hours to complete this module.