Behavioural Education for Humans, Animals, Vegetation & Ecosystem Management (BEHAVE) – Australia Course
BEHAVE Australia Course – Dubbo (August 2012)
You are invited to apply to attend the Behave Australia course in Dubbo, NSW from the 27th- 31st August 2012.
Emeritus Professor Fred Provenza from the USA has been researching animal behavior and nutrition for 30 years. During that time he and colleagues produced ground-breaking research proving that grazing animals learn and manage to balance their own dietary needs and to self-medicate using diverse pastures as their pharmacy.
The Behave course is a very special opportunity to experience this high level knowledge in Australia. Experts in grazing management, shrubs, stockmanship and dietary mixing will join Fred to share the local experience and research in this field.
Brought to you by TAFE Western with funding provided by the Central West Catchment Management Authority and with the support of Little River Landcare and Stress Free Stockmanship.
This course is a special occasion delivery of the USA Behave materials and demonstrations. This will be the only opportunity to experience this course in 2012 and has been generously supported by the organisations above. Limited places available- don’t miss this opportunity. For background info go to: extension.usu.edu/behave
For Bookings contact Corinne:
Phone (02) 68402127 Fax (02) 68402190
corinne.cooper2@tafensw.edu.au
Flyer: BEHAVE Australia Course
Equitana Melbourne – November 2012
We are half way through the year and the Equitana event is almost insight! The next event will be held at the Melbourne Showgrounds from 15th to 18th November 2012.
This year MB Equine Services was selected to join the team of horse care & health educators. We will be hosting two seminars on integrated horse and land management. Our topics will focus on:
- Decision Making in Horse and Land management – How do you vision your horse property?
- Regenerative Horse Property Design & Pasture Management –Healthy soil = healthy horses
Over the months we will be working on our program and try to compile something that applies to all horse owners – that have small or large acreage, have their horses in agistment or are running a horse business such as breeding stud, training stable, spelling etc. So keep checking our website and facebook page for more information about our program and times.
Australian Horse Keeping Conference 2012
Living Legends Melbourne 12 /13 Nov 2012
Horse owners talk about weeds, dust, mud and emerging diseases. Scientists and natural resource managers talk about water quality, biodiversity and climate impacts. Yet we are all talking about the same thing.
The aim of this event is to bring a variety of people together to exchange knowledge about sustainable horse keeping practices from the researcher “down” and grass roots “up”!
MB Equine Services will be hosting a presentation on forages and enrichment for horses.
Confirmed Speakers:
Alayne Blickle (USA) http://www.horsesforcleanwater.com/
Jane Myers http://www.equiculture.com.au/
Dr Gary Muscatello http://piarn.org.au / http://sydney.edu.au/vetscience/about/staff/profiles/gary.muscatello.276.php
Mariette van den Berg www.mberg.com.au
Dr Kirrilly Thompson http://tinyurl.com/kirrilly-thompson
Dr Andrew Clarke www.livinglegends.com.au
Target Audiences: Horse owners, horse property managers, NRM & Local Government Officers. Educators, lecturers, coaches, equine & racing students & LandCare leaders involved with typical peri-urban small horse keeping properties or commercial horse keeping enterprises.
Day 1: will feature all speakers. Day 2: Alayne Blickle
$110 per day including catering / $88 per day for Horse SA members
Monday night optional gourmet BBQ tea & 2.5 hr. drinks package avail. Guests of delegates welcome to BBQ. Includes tour of Living Legends property.
REGISTER HERE: http://www.trybooking.com/BCDX
Sponsorship and promotional opportunities are available: Enq. horsesa@horsesa.asn.au or hw@senet.com.au
Thank you to the following sponsors for assisting this important event to be put on:
Primary Industries Adaptation Research Network
Central Queensland University Appleton Institute
Welcome to the New Website of MB Equine Services
Welcome to the new website of MB Equine Services. We found that it was time to update our website and make it more interactive for horse owners. We publish on a regular basis educational articles on horse nutrition, property design and pasture management in a number of horse magazines and we would like to notify our readers and new visitors/horse owners about our new releases. In addition, we have started our blog, which will feature information about our upcoming events (e.g. seminars, workshops, clinic etc) and in the field results and observations from our services. We will also publish regular posts on the progress of Mariette’s PhD equine nutrition project. More information about this interesting study will follow soon.
We hope that this website is more user friendly and we will do our best to keep improving it. Happy browsing!
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