Week 2 Welcome Video

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The Horse Course: Introduction to Basic Care and Management

429 calificaciones

University of Florida

The Horse Course: Introduction to Basic Care and Management

429 calificaciones

There are over 100 million horses, donkeys and mules in the world today and owners of these animals can be found on almost every continent and in almost every society. The Horse Course will cover many unique aspects of equine ownership and touch upon the science behind many of today’s management practices.

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Basic Equine Physiology

This week will start out with covering some basic physiology. We will then advance into hoof anatomy and care. This will lead to spending a lecture discussing laminitis, a serious hoof condition in horses and other equids. The final two lectures will jump into the various coat colors and markings in horses.

Week 2 Welcome Video4:04

Basic Equine Physiology7:44

Hoof Anatomy11:08

Conoce a los instructores

Chris J. Mortensen, Ph.D.
Professor
Animal Sciences

So welcome to week two of the horse course.

In these welcome videos I just kind of like to do a wrap up of week one and

then move into week two and, you know,

the response to this class has just been phenomenal.

Through the week I've noticed the enrollment numbers continue to go up.

We're almost 11 thousand horse, donkey,

equine enthusiasts enrolled in this class so.

It's been pretty fantastic to see.

And one of the things I'm, I'm really

loving about this course is to wake up every

morning, go to the discussion boards and I see,

welcome to the horse course from Mustafa from Sudan.

So, Mustafa, welcome, that was, it made my day just to read

that and to realize, you know, not only the reach of this course.

But that there are equine enthusiasts, you know,

in every corner of the world it's just, it's

amazing, and it's, it's really fun to, to watch

and read the students as you all interact together.

So it's been pretty, pretty exciting week.

Been some, some really good discussion threads this week

on you know, the evolution of the horse, and

what really drove them from going from those four

to three to, to single digit toes to the hoof.

You know, you can go back and read those, but as we go into week two,

you know, if you haven't been participating in

discussion boards I encourage you to jump in there.

It's, it's really fantastic.

And to see the interaction between all the students is great.

Even Emily Carter had a wonderful post this

week you know, she was kind of talking about the

history of the horse and then it kind of

morphed into this discussion of therapeutic use of horses.

If you don't know a lot about therapeutic riding

or therapeutic use of horses, just very briefly, you

know they're finding that people that you know either

have some you know, emotional trauma or even physical disabilities.

If, if they get involved with riding horses physically they improve because

when you ride you use different muscles that you normally don't use.

But also emotionally they, they improve, which is really fantastic.

And it kind of talks about you know,

this emotional bond we have with these creatures.

It's just, it, it's really incredible.

Some other things I learned this week.

I've learned more about pony's than, than I have ever before.

the, the, the most important thing to remember

is, there's no such thing as an Icelandic pony.

Martin from, from, I believe Iceland, brought that up in the discussion boards.

In Iceland, you call them Icelandic horses, you do not call them ponies.

If you call them ponies, they're going to throw you off

the ca, their, their big island so don't do that.

So I thought that was pretty fantastic.

And, the, the post of the week has to go to Silke that posted about, unicorns

creating unicorns by, you know, mixing the chromosomes

of rhino's and horses since they're close relatives.

I thought that was pretty humorous and a lot of other folks did too.

So, so going into week two, this week

we're going to to be talking about basic anatomy.

We're going to jump into hoof anatomy, and hoof care, and

then round out the week with coat color and markings.

Now, don't forget, you know, to take the quiz.

Again, the quiz hard dates is the last day in the course.

So if you do fall a little bit behind on

that, do not worry, you have time to take those.

But we do start the, the hard close dates for the weekly assignments.

So there is the, this week is the hoof care plan.

I did do a brief video introducing that to you, so you can kind of see what

the expectations would be with that, so watch

that video if you plan on doing the assignments.

And there is a hard due date.

So, so check those dates.

To make sure you, you do turn those in because we're doing

the period vows so we had to kind of, keep hard dates with that.

But other than that, I'm going to be checking in with you each week.

I'm, I'm, I'm jumping in discussion boards when I can and, and

I really enjoy the interactions and, and the feedback from the course.

So, I'll check in with you next week and I'll see you then.

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