Heather Smith Thomas

"Now with full-color photography and illustrations throughout, the completely updated third edition of Storey's Guide to Raising Horses is the most comprehensive horse husbandry handbook available, whether you're a first-time owner or an experienced horse handler. Covering everything you need to know about facilities, breeding, and health care, this new edition features a photographic gallery of many types of horses; expanded material on recognizing,...

Care & Management of Horses provides a common-sense approach to keeping a horse healthy, sound, comfortable, and happy. Intended for the serious horse person, the book emphasizes the whole horse mental and physical and encourages the owner to center horse-keeping practices around the horse's needs. Respected equine author Heather Smith Thomas discusses the horse in nature to help the reader understand what is natural or unnatural for a horse and the...

Offers information and advice on selecting, feeding, housing, caring for, breeding, and showing both beef and dairy cattle.