This is the best pasture plant identifier you'll ever come across!

• Covers 80 common pasture grasses - now you can learn to tell one grass from another. Some are toxic; many are friends. Can you tell what your horse is actually eating?

• Covers 175 toxic or noxious wildflowers, weeds, and ferns - each one rated for potential danger to your horse.

• Maps showing plant distributions for the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, and New Zealand (most toxic plant species occur in all countries)

Horses eat grass - so grass is supposed to be good for them - right?

Not necessarily! There are some grasses that horses definitely should not be eating. Get specific information on that as well as on:

• Fungi that grow on and in grasses - and the hot topic of mycotoxins

• High-sugar and high-carbohydrate grasses

• Pros and cons of feeding Alfalfa-Lucerne and other forage legumes

• Where you can have hay samples tested

• Extensive list of on-line resources

The horse farm is an ecosystem in which you and your horse live.

Every horse owner needs a working knowledge of what's growing on his property and what's in the hay. This is what your horse lives on and this is what he's eating. When your horse eats hay that's been shipped in from somewhere else, he is as good as living in the field where that hay was grown.

You can protect your horse with knowledge!

As with all Institute projects, we ship immediately upon receipt of order, and we pay all the shipping costs. Price for this two-volume work on CD-Rom is $52.95USD.

By Deb Bennett, Ph.D.

Dr. Deb speaks as a world-renowned authority on conformation, anatomy, gait, movement, and form-to-function. And the first thing that she will tell you is this: there is something a lot more important about a horse than its physical body.

"The Birdie Book" is about what goes on inside your horse - what makes him "tick". It is an exposition of what that mysterious thing is that seems to live inside a horse that makes him think and act so differently than we do. If you've ever wondered why horses do the things they do - why they shy at harmless objects - why they buck, bolt, or rear - why they dunk their hay in their water bucket - or stall-weave - or jump out of the beautiful green pasture you've provided for them - then this is the book you need to look into.

Another purpose of "The Birdie Book" is to help owners learn to handle and ride their horses better. The central theme is that the horse's inner life - his mind, emotions, and spirit - govern his outer or physical being. "The Birdie Book" clearly explains how to harness both parts of your horse so that you become able to work with the whole horse. Specific approaches for getting your horse to want to do what you want him to do, as well as clear explanations of the physical aids and cues, are given throughout..

Dr. Deb's approach to horsemanship is strictly classical yet has nothing to do with any form of competition. It's about joy and companionship, trust and motivation, subtlety and courtesy. It's about achieving the High School with 100% commitment and zero strain.

Includes detailed studies of the anatomy of the upper neck and head, tongue, and throat. Complete review of the 1803 Don Juan Segundo Treatise on Bitting. Noseband design and function. Also: Nervous system anatomy; gait study (canter and transitions); colic and migraine; contraction vs. decontraction of the topline; horse-handler relations; "Painty and the Trampoline" poem; what is classical riding; teaching the plie bow; the main object in starting young horses; historical review of Black Beauty; difference between rough and firm; Tom Dorrance benefit report.

Year 2001 Back Issue -- $25
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Includes detailed studies of the anatomy of the neck, back, loins, belly. "3-D" virtual dissections. Review of passive and active support systems of the horse's back. Also: Review of the movie "Spirit"; "Free Lungeing" by Stephen Mackenzie; "Losing Less Money Raising Horses" by Margaret Gardiner; and "The Horse Gods" by Millie Hunt Porter. Articles: Riding one step at a time or "Training as Treatment"; "Straight from the Horse's Mouth" a primer on equine dentistry. Review/reprint of Gervaise Markham 1614 "Cheape and Good Husbandrie"; addition to our Rarey collection from 1856; and "Judging the Warmblood Horse", conformation study by Gustav Rau, 1935, translated from the German. Short pieces: what is contact; purpose of arena figures; Newcastle's conceit; Year of the Horse.

This is practically a book. Includes over 150 pages of anatomical information - virtually a book on the subject -- including extensive "3-D" dissections of the lower limb, historical plates, model studies, and literature review. Also: Oliver Sacks, MD review, including "Awakenings", "A Leg to Stand On", "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat", and more; "Nothing is Impossible" by Christopher Reeve; and "The Faraway Horses" by Buck Brannaman. Study of navicular disease in fossil horses; understanding shape changes in bone; "The Eye of the Anlage", using your "subtle" eye to better assess limb conformation; and the Institute horse coin and stamp collection.

Includes Dr. Deb's original and very clear translation of François Baucher's 1835 "New Method of Horsemanship". Also includes Paez's 1875 "Wild Scenes from South America", book reviews of "Sketches from the Ranch" and "Seabiscuit", study guide to Tom Dorrance's "True Unity", directed reading on developing your feel, putting Eckhart Tolle's "The Power of Now" to work for you in horsemanship, report on Eyjolfur Isolfsson's Icelandic horse program and Dr. Deb's trip to Holar College in Iceland.

Features reports on the Wilton House indoor riding school and collection of equestrian paintings, with a discussion of the "Manege Moderne" by the Baron Reis d'Eisenberg. Includes a complete technical analysis of 18th-century bitting methods, and of the various gaits and movements which were practiced in Classical Haute Ecole. Feature report on the Evolution of the Horse and a gorgeous "virtual tour" of horse fossil exhibits in Museums of Natural History around the world. Also: Complete copies of the very popular article "Timing and Rate of Skeletal Maturation in Horses" (the "Ranger" paper); History of the Mustang, Barb, and Arabian; Notes on Teaching Horses to Tie Safely; Spoiled Child, Spoiled Horse; Icelandic "Toltmaster" Eyjolfur Isolfsson; Ray Hunt clinic at Melbourne; and Dr. Deb's research on bones from Roman Vindolanda.

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Feature report in the January issue begins with horses of the American Civil War, then covers Morgan and derivative breeds, including Standardbred, American Saddlebred, Tennessee Walker and Missouri Foxtrotter. In the Mid-Year issue, "Grand-Dad's Horses" continues with a report on Arabians in Asia and America, with many old and hard to find photos. Also in these issues: continuing work on horse bones at Roman Vindolanda; animal language; photo report on the Mike Schaffer clinic; report on "running away to join the circus" from a couple of our members who have actually done it; deception in equine photography; Dr. Deb's deep horsemanship experience with an old kangaroo; T'ai Ch'i and horsemanship insights; the importance of paying attention.

Year 206 Back Issue - $25.00

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This marvelous 432-page volume tells the story of mounted horsemanship from its beginnings in prehistory to the days of the Spanish conquest of the New World. An American Library Association "Best in Category" winner, this book offers the easy readability of a novel yet the technical depth of a college textbook.

In this landmark work, Dr. Deb tackles one of the grandest stories in the history of the world. Native warriors, desert nomads, Norman knights, Spanish conquistadors, Argentinian gauchos, Tejano colonists and California vaqueros all contribute to the birth of the unique and varied horse cultures of the New World. Provocative and fascinating, we guarantee that "Conquerors" is one book that you will not be able to put down.

With some 500 illustrations, maps, quotations from rare original sources and an extensive bibliography and index, "Conquerors" covers the history of every country in the New World that has ever bred horses of Iberian background.

This volume is an invaluable resource not only for owners, breeders, and aficionados, but for teachers who need an authoritative and well-researched volume on the history of horsemanship.

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