Horse Handling & Grooming: Haltering * Leading & Tying * Bathing & Clipping * Grooming & Braiding * Handling Hooves

by Richard Klimesh and Cherry Hill

Book Overview

This user-friendly guide to essential skills includes feeding, haltering, tying, grooming, clipping, bathing, braiding, and blanketing. The wealth of practical advice offered is thorough enough for beginners, yet useful for experienced riders improving their skills.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882669567
• ISBN13: 9780882669564
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Storey Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Beginner-Great Picture Guide

This book matches exactly what the title says it is providing the beginner with the basics of handling and grooming on a horse that is use to both (in my mind set it pretains to a very gentle well trained horse that is use to a lot of handling, like someone else stated a sound horse). The pictures and text appear to be complete on how to do things right and it's my kind of book, no long winded, wasted or unneeded words to make a bigger book thus wasting my time or book shelf space.It does just cover the basics on how to do it (not with a horse that is unruley) and on handling you will quickly out-grow the book. It does contain more information on grooming than it does handling so if you are new at that it should be very helpful.

Good book for all ages!

I'm 13 years old and found this book very helpful! It teaches you bathing,grooming and proper horse handleing.I would recommend this book to novice and experienced!

Read It Over & Over...

After 15 years of not being responsible for horses I purchase a mare & 2 geldings.This book was extremely helpful to remember all the basics and learn alot of things I did not know...much of what is in this book has been reinforced by recommendations from my farrier and my vet!Loved it & still look back at it occasionly...

Horse Handling & Grooming

As a new owner of young untrained horses this book was invaluable in my library. The step-by-step photos make every skill easy to understand and attempt with your own horse. The instruction text is clear and concise and Cherry Hill has covered the "must knows" for every horse owner. I would recommend this book for any horse person.

A perfect teacher for the beginning horse owner

I have just recently purchased a horse and had to learn a great many things at once. Through the use of this book and its wonderful, concise photographs, I've been able to learn the fundamentals of grooming my horse...and let me say she looks wonderful! Not many horse books reach this far down into the fundamentals and enable one to really take a look at the basics. I was also impressed with the emphasis on safety, and I have probably avoided a few bad situations because of it. Since reading this book, I've begun amassing the rest of Ms. Hill's guides. If they are all as useful as this one, I think my horse will thank me.