The Equine Nutrition courses combine two important fundamentals pertaining to horse health by studying and understanding both nutrition and pasture management. The courses promote exactly what the horse is designed to eat, and the importance and effectiveness of the digestive processes and how best to work with this in mind according to the individual.

Having a sound understanding of equine nutrition as it pertains to the specific needs at the horses’ various stages of life and performance, is vital for the horse to survive and thrive in all that the horse is asked to do.
The course will allow the student to continually evolve through analysis to apply rational and critical thinking within todays’ market of equine nutritional products.
The information contained in these courses has been complied with the astute help of two very important Veterinarians, to aid in reducing the more common conditions and diseases that affect so many horses in modern times. At the end of this course the student will understand how nutrition can hinder or improve allergies or inflammation within the equine body. Understanding how nutritional diseases are caused and exasperated through nutrient deficiencies, therefore aiding students on how to professionally prescribe a complete diet that meets each nutritional requirement for horses dealing with disease on an individual basis.

Pastures play an important role in the life and management of all horses. A well-managed pasture is a highly valuable source of nutrition. Horses spend either all, or none of their time in a paddock and some paddocks can be overstocked, never rested and infested with internal weeds and parasites, therefore how may this affect the horse nutritionally?
Plants involved need to compete for light, water and nutrients, they need to withstand varying degrees of defoliation and trampling if they are to survive. Plants are in a pasture to provide forage (fibre) and can provide the majority of their nutritional needs, the productivity of the plants, the soil type, seasonal distribution of the production and quality; all have a significant influence on livestock.