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| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
AG 265B | Title:
HORSE MANAGEMENT |
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| Full Title:
Horse Management |
| Last Reviewed:11/17/2014 |
| Units | Course Hours per Week | | Nbr of Weeks | Course Hours Total |
| Maximum | 3.00 | Lecture Scheduled | 3.00 | 17.5 max. | Lecture Scheduled | 52.50 |
| Minimum | 3.00 | Lab Scheduled | 0 | 17.5 min. | Lab Scheduled | 0 |
| | Contact DHR | 0 | | Contact DHR | 0 |
| | Contact Total | 3.00 | | Contact Total | 52.50 |
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| | Non-contact DHR | 0 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 0 |
| | Total Out of Class Hours: 105.00 | Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50 | |
Title 5 Category:
AA Degree Applicable
Grading:
Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:
00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
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Catalog Description:
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Emphasizing the management aspects of horse husbandry. Nutrition, reproduction, disease prevention, and control housing and equipment, as well as equinomics will be covered.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Course Completion of EQSCI 100 ( or AG 165A or AG 165 or AG 265A) OR Course Completion of EQSCI 25 ( or AG 25 or AG 65)
Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL 100A or ENGL 100.
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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Horse management topics for the horse ranch manager. Taxes, labor, feeding, housing & handling.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:Course Completion of EQSCI 100 ( or AG 165A or AG 165 or AG 265A) OR Course Completion of EQSCI 25 ( or AG 25 or AG 65)
Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 100A or ENGL 100.
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
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Certificate/Major Applicable:
Certificate Applicable Course
COURSE CONTENT
Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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The student will:
1. Have an indepth understanding of disease prevention and control.
2. Evaluate different record keeping systems.
3. Balance rations for different ages and types of horses.
4. Analyze the tax benefits of different aspects of the horse
industry.
Topics and Scope
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1. Buildings and equipment.
a. costs
b. depreciation
c. permanent vs. temporary structures
d. tax benefits
2. Nutrition.
a. growing young horses
b. rations for breeding horses
c. maintenance ration
d. management suggestions concerning feeding
3. Reproduction and management.
a. estrus cycles
b. hormones and their use for aid in conception
c. care at parturition
d. re-breeding
4. Controlling disease and parasites.
a. sanitation
b. immunity
c. bacterial caused diseases
d. viral caused diseases
e. internal and external parasites and their control
5. Money management.
a. production record keeping
b. financing
c. taxes and the horse industry
Assignments:
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Assignments will be taken from periodicals, handouts, and texts.
Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.
| Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing. | Writing
0 - 20% |
| Written homework, Essay exams, Term papers | |
| Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving
0 - 10% |
| Homework problems, Quizzes, Exams | |
| Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations
0 - 10% |
| Class performances | |
| Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams
0 - 60% |
| Multiple choice, True/false, Matching items, Completion | |
| Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category
0 - 0% |
| None | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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