Study Guide

Objective

The student
- understand the factors that affects horse breeds, mainly based on exterior and movement patterns
- knows the requirements that riding and trotting horses place on their surroundings, their facilities and their feeding and care
- understands the impact of the environment on a horse's conduct and can prevent problematic behaviour
- can optimise horse breeding and understands the factors that affect the profitability of horse breeding and related businesses
- is familiar with commonly used riding and trotting training methods

Content

The general conditions of horse keeping in the EU and in Finland
Historical development of horse keeping in Finland and potential prospects?
Various forms of horse riding and breeding, trotting and riding horses, riding school activities, recruitment of lesson horses
Competition, riding and trotting, jumping and dressage, field competition
Horse anatomy and physiology
Feed production, feed quality and types of feed, local feed raw materials, mycotoxin risks and preventive measures
Feeding, feed state calculations
Horse care, daily care and the versatile tasks of the horse owner in addition to the practical care measures
Exercise physiology, different training methods in equestrian and equestrian sports, aerobic and anaerobic training, muscle structure and work
Training of horses at a rehabilitation facility (Rehab Center)
Horse lunging and equipment adaptation
The horse's natural behavior (ethology), the impact of the environment on various forms of problem behavior, preventive measures
Riding and trotting horses' requirements on their surroundings, design of horse farms and stables environments
Exterior, movement patterns, practical anatomy studies, sustainability and health care
The evolution of the horse and the horse breeding grounds, pony breeding, breeding of riding and trotting horses, choice of horse material
Factors affecting the profitability of equine holding and a rational horse enterprise, TB - calibration in various forms of equine companies
Customer circles and customer processes, different forms of cooperation between horse companies, eg management cooperation
The process of horse breeding, horse breeding optimization and various concepts for local and regional horse farming

Evaluation scale

H-5

Qualifications

No previous knowledge required