Equitana Horse SA Stand
This year MB Equine Services will be hosting two seminars on horse and land management at the Equitana in Melbourne. We won’t have our own stand, but we will be visiting stands of organisations and horse magazine for Q&A hours!
You can find us at the Horse SA stand – together with some other educators! Worth a visit!
Equitana: Horse SA Stand No.473 Epsom Hall
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** Large animal rescue equipment, books & information ** Horse SA information ** Check back to this webpage soon for item listings!
Guests in the stand- available for Q&A and book signings (as indicated) include
- Dr Rebecca Gimenez www.tlaer.org Providing demonstrations at Equitana & book signing “Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue”
- Alayne Blickle www.horsesforcleanwater.com Keynote speaker for the Australian Horse Keeping Conference
- Mariette van den Berg www.mberg.com.au
- Jane Myers www.equiculture.com.au (to be confirmed)
- Mary Anne Leighton www.equineER.com signing for “Equine Emergency Rescue“
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
PhD Equine Nutrition Project
Browsing – An overlooked aspect in horse management?
Throughout my Animal Management & Science degrees I have been involved in a number of animal nutrition studies- but I had a particular passion for equine nutrition! My last research project was for my Master Degree, which I conducted at the Massey University in New Zealand from 2005 to 2006. I studied the effect of abrupt dietary changes from pasture to confinement and concentrate feeding and vice versa on the faecal pH and microbiology of Thoroughbred horses. In 2006 I travel to Australia to present this work at the Australian Equine Science Symposium – which was a great opportunity to meet other new and renowned equine science and nutrition researchers. Since then I have been interested in continuing my research work in equine nutrition, but it has been very difficult to get something started (in Netherlands, Australia or New Zealand) – as equine nutrition is a topic that doesn’t generally get a lot of priority (it depends also on the topic within equine nutrition). Doing research with horses is also very expensive and there are not a lot of horse industry bodies with enough research funding – so I was not able to continue right away! However, being practically involved with the horse industry for the last 6 years has been a great experience and actually gave me more motivation to research a topic that can be applied to today’s horse management needs and that can improve the welfare of horses.
So in February of this year – I was able to finally start my PhD project on Equine Nutrition. The primary focus of the study is on forage enrichment for domesticated horses in Australia. I am particular interested in browsing behaviour and alternative forages. Although I am not able to give all the results during my research – I would like to keep our clients, readers and horse owners up to date with the progress and research events. On our MB Equine Services website I will regularly post some news about all the things that happen in the research field. So keep checking our website and facebook page or subscribe to our RSS feed!
We have published some educational articles in horse magazines that relate to this research topic. So if you would like to read those – visit our article database page.
Come back to read our next research update!
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