Horse Health Course

Every person who owns or works with horses should be aware of basic signs and symptoms that indicate if a horse is healthy or beginning to become sick. This course will teach you how to check for signs of dehydration, diarrhoea and colic through observation and simple tests that anyone can perform. It also shows you how to take a horse’s temperature and measure pulse and respiration rates.

This course includes the Learning Modules:

1. Basic Horse Health
2. Temperature, Pulse & Respiration

Accreditation: TBA Horse Health Course Certificate of  Completion

Meet The Expert

Dr Fiona Lacey
Equine Reproduction Veterinarian, BSc, BVMS

Equine reproduction veterinarian, Fiona Lacey, left school at 16 to work with racehorses.  After a number of years working at the track, she returned to high school and, in 1988, obtained a degree in veterinary studies.  

Fiona worked as a racetrack vet at Morphettville before moving to New South Wales to pursue her interest in equine reproduction. Fiona worked in New Zealand and England in various equine reproduction roles before returning to Perth.  

Fiona now runs an equine veterinary practice, Olive Grove Equine Clinic, from her stud, Mogumber Park outside of Perth, Western Australia, which she founded with her husband, Colin, in 2006.

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