HORSES
HORSES
The 4-H horse project can provide youth with the opportunity to learn about care, selection, management, health, marketing and careers in the equine industry. Learn the basic principles of animal science by caring for, working with, keeping records or owning a horse. Explore knowledge of sound management, nutrition, reproduction and selection practices. Discover how you can start a career in the equine industry.
What can you Learn?
- Learn about basic horse care
- Identify the parts of a horse
- Learn breeds of horses
- Learn the gaits of the horse
- Learn about genetics and heredity of horses
- Investigate horse diseases
Horses Guidebook
- Giddy Up & Go, Level 1 (08053)
- Head, Heart & Hooves, Level 2 (08054)
- Stable Relationships, Level 3 (08055)
- Riding the Range, Level 4 (08056)
- Jumping to New Heights, Level 5 (08057)
- Horse Helpers’s Guide, Level 6 (08058)
- Horses & Horsemanship (CO220)
- Horse Science (CO221)
- Level 2: Study Guide | Exam
- Level 3: Study Guide | Exam
- Level 4: Study Guide | Exam
Horse Videos
Patterns
- Showmanship
- Halter-as dictated by show/judge
- Ranch Riding
- Western Horsemanship
- Western Pleasure-no patterns (rail work only)
- Western Riding
- Hunt Seat Equitation
- Hunter Under Saddle-no patterns (rail work only)
- Programmed Ride
- Reining
- Trail
- Pole Bending: arena layout
- Barrel Racing: arena layout
- Stake Race: arena layout | demonstration video
- Goat Tying: arena layout
- Cattle Boxing: arena layout | score sheet
- Team Sorting: arena layout
- Working Cow Horse
- Dummy Roping: score sheet
- Ground Roping: score sheet
- Tie-down Roping: demonstration video
- Team Roping: demonstration video
- Hunter Hack
Contact Us
Wyoming 4-H
College of Agriculture, Life Sciences & Natural Resources
Room 112
1000 E. University Ave
Laramie, WY 82071
Dept. 3354
Email: 4h@uwyo.edu
Phone: (307) 766-5170
The University of Wyoming has earned its Research Level 1 (R1) status from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, placing Wyoming’s only four-year university in the rarefied air of the top research universities in the United States.
The University of Wyoming is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution.
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