MB Equine Services Books
We write independent articles for a number of magazines and websites including Horses and People, Hoofbeats, Equine Excellence, and the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia.A collection of articles is now available in two full colour volumes. The books include additional information and articles that have not been published before. The volumes are available in soft-cover , hard-cover and e-book format for iPad and iPhone.
Equine Nutrition & Feeding Management
A collection of articles, 80 pages
by Mariette van den Berg
The use of horses for sporting and leisure has resulted in an increase interest in equine research that expands the knowledge on the behaviour, physiology, health and performance of horses. In particular, the increased attention given to equine nutrition during last 40 years by research groups around the world, has revolutionised the way we feed our horses today.
This book is a collection of articles that have been written for various horse magazines in Australia. It covers many nutritional subjects including the anatomy of the digestive tract, evolution of the horse dentition, feeding of breeding and growing horses, digestive and metabolic disorders and equine feeds and supplements. We hope that this volume will serve as a guide for all horse owners that are keen to learn more about integrated horse nutrition and feeding management.
Books can be ordered at the Blurb.com bookstore (click on the link below).
Soft-cover $54.95
Equine Permaculture: Regenerative Horse Property Design & Pasture Management
A collection of articles, 80 pages
by Mariette van den Berg & Nicholas Huggins
Generally, horse keeping is considered to be a costly hobby or business, especially with current price rises in living expenses and feed costs. On top of that, horse and land owners encounter the high input costs or difficulties to maintain pastures and sustain the dietary needs of horses.
The need for a new approach to these challenges of horse keeping is getting more foot hold in the equine community and sport industry. To be able to make horse keeping more economically viable and productive we must develop a sustainable horse property and pasture management plan that caters for immediate and long-term needs, your own personal goals (social, economical), your horse’s well-being and the environment.
By applying the ethics and principles of Permaculture design and integrating knowledge on biological pasture management, holistic grazing planning, horse behaviour, horse nutrition and horse management you are able to create a more sustainable and healthy equine system. All horse and land owners, small and large acreage, are able to restore their land, improve soil carbon, regenerate pastures, drought proof their farm, close the input cycle of chemical based fertilisers by developing their own compost (tea) alternative, reduce supplementary feed cost by designing horse forage systems and improve natural feeding behaviour by forage enrichment and slow feeding strategies.
This book is a collection of articles that have been written for various national horse magazines in Australia. It provides comprehensive information about integrative systems and how to develop and regenerate your horse property and manage horses in an ecologically sound and most cost effective way to ensure the health of your horses and land.
Books can be ordered at the Blurb.com bookstore (click on the link below).
Soft-cover $54.95
