The Field Guide to Horses
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Learn about your favorite equine breeds with this easy-to-use reference on their conformation, colors, and characteristics—from Arabians to Welsh Ponies.
Thinking of acquiring a horse? Studying equine breeds and traits? Or simply curious about the magnificent creatures? This book, with profiles of one hundred horse, pony, and draft breeds, is the most comprehensive field guide to horses ever published. Illustrated throughout with fine color photographs, the profiles detail the characteristics and unique aspects of each breed; they also include brief histories and explain distinctions of equine color genetics, markings and patterns, and conformation. Complete, concise, and compact, this field guide is as handy as it is informative—the perfect companion for anyone considering horses.
ASIN : B004NNUX34
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Accessibility : Learn more
Publication date : December 20, 2022
Edition : First
Language : English
File size : 34.7 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Not Enabled
Print length : 146 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-1616732172
Page Flip : Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #1,750,665 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #190 in Biological Science of Horses #308 in Biological Science of Mammals #364 in Animal Husbandry (Kindle Store)
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Customers like the book’s pictures. The information content receives mixed reviews, with several customers noting it covers general horse information.
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Cloud Gazer –
Great book that covers plenty of details
I used to have horses growing up. Now, one of my young sons is very interested in them. So, I bought this book after looking at several others. I wanted something that balanced showing plenty of pictures with sharing good information, and I wanted something that appealed to a beginner. This book is great. It has enough pictures to keep his interest while giving all kinds of interesting information. In fact, even I am learning new things (such as the coloring variations for different breeds) as result of the research that’s been done in the last couple of decades!To start off, the book goes over general horse information and then starts to get specific with colorings and coat patterns. After this, the book profiles a number of breeds more specifically with pictures for each entry.Prior to buying this book, I combed the local bookstores looking at various books on horses. The rest were either too light on both information and images or were very heavy on the information and had little in the way of photographs. For us, this is a “just right” size.Plus, the physical size of the book is such that it is easy to take along when you’re “out and about”. The binding is sturdy, as well. Of course as a “field guide”, one would always hope that it would be. However in other subjects, that hasn’t always turned out to be the case. So, that’s why I share what would otherwise seem obvious.
Rosalind –
Not useful for beginners
This book has lots of nice pictures but doesn’t help me learn how to tell one breed from another. It is better suited to horse breeders, as most of the information tells you what breeds were crossed to make up another breed. I was hoping for information on the physical differences between breeds – size, shape, body proportions and distinctive body characteristics so that I could tell by looking at them which is an Arabian or a Morgan or a Thoroughbred or a Quarter Horse, etc. But instead the book focused mostly on horse colors (which don’t usually coincide with particular breeds) and ancestral lineages (which don’t help me tell one breed from another when I look at them). I was disappointed because the name implied that the book would be like a bird identification book – that it would help me tell the breeds apart by looking at them. It doesn’t do that at all.
Alice S. –
Good information on many different aspects of horses
I really love this book. It includes a lot of things I already knew but many more I didn’t. The photos are georgous and helpful. If you want to know more about horse basics this is a good book to start with.
Linda S. –
Five Stars
Love this book. Beautiful pictures.
jessica –
Five Stars
Arrived in good shape
Gustavo Pineda –
Quick-reference book
If all you want is a brief summary of each horse breed, this book is OK, however it is more of a starting point for researching as it does not have much information. I reference it now and then as I have it on my phone.
yummytulip:) –
Very helpful and organized,
I think this book is very interesting.It may not have EVERYTHING to know about them,but it did have all the of the more common breeds,colors,and markings.It would be good for curious people or your having trouble of what horse to get.
Bodhyfryd –
A really good book – I have referred to it many times, particularly the first section on equine colour.
marchot –
Interesting book, aderssing comprehensively horse races : besides pictures, some drawings could have been helpful to identify and distinguish breeds. It is lacking unfortunately and we have to be content with pictures. Text is ggod, but high density make it a bit difficult and unappealing.