Equine . . . Nuritionist,trainer,psychologist . . . a tad long

[puzzles]

Hello peeps :-)

Well there are lots of things i'd like to do with my life :rolleyes: , especially regarding the horse world :D and one of them is equine nutrition; guarentee that every feeding wuery on here, i do my best to answer. i subscribe to Your Horse magazine (fabby) and, first, turn straight to the feeding-query pages.
I've always been fascinated (am i sad or what?) and, being nearly 16, am taking my GCSEs (including Agriculture - does that at all give me an advantage?) and aim to take my A-levels next year (well, this year but you know what i mean ;) ) in History, English Literature, Theatre Studies and Psyhcology. My Biology teacher reckons I'd struggle at Biology A-level; l would not taking it mean I'm disadvantaged at all?

To put the rest in as brief a mode as possible (of which i'm rubbish at mind) I'm also fascinated with psychology and love NH, being one drawn to and trying to help horses with issues and problems, and have a soft spot for ex-racehorses and youngsters, so would eventually love to have and run my own yard doing just this . . . and teach freelance.

Gos this sounds like a tall order putting it down on paper! :eek:

anyone's own experiences, opiions and advice would be SOOOOOOO gratefuklly received and absorbed, if you wouldn't mind!

Thank you lots,

Emily

[puzzles]

Hello peeps :-)

SOOooo . . .

Well there are lots of things i'd like to do with my life , especially regarding the horse world and one of them is equine nutrition; guarentee that every feeding wuery on here, i do my best to answer. i subscribe to Your Horse magazine (fabby) and, first, turn straight to the feeding-query pages.
I've always been fascinated (am i sad or what?) and, being nearly 16, am taking my GCSEs (including Agriculture - does that at all give me an advantage?) and aim to take my A-levels next year (well, this year but you know what i mean ) in History, English Literature, Theatre Studies and Psyhcology. My Biology teacher reckons I'd struggle at Biology A-level; l would not taking it mean I'm disadvantaged at all?

To put the rest in as brief a mode as possible (of which i'm rubbish at mind) I'm also fascinated with psychology and love NH, being one drawn to and trying to help horses with issues and problems, and have a soft spot for ex-racehorses and youngsters, so would eventually love to have and run my own yard doing just this . . . and teach freelance.

Gos this sounds like a tall order putting it down on paper!

anyone's own experiences, opiions and advice would be SOOOOOOO gratefuklly received and absorbed, if you wouldn't mind!

Thank you lots,

Emily

[Centyfield_Mica]

Hi there Emily,

Firstly full marks for being so forward thinking at your age - Im impressed.
There are people a hell of alot older than you changing their careers to a horsey path so dont ever stress about taking the "right" path - always do things that make you happy and enjoy otherwise whats the point. You entusiasm is great and alot of employees would love that.

My A-Levels had nothing to do with my chosen career as a Quantity Surveyor and Im training to be an IH RA now.

Equine experience is usually the best qualification anyone can have so try to be around as moany as possible.

Good luck

X

[whatsitallabout]

Hi Emily

Good on you for knowing what you want to do when you leave school, I'm almost 10 years past the date that I left school at and STILL don't really know where I want to be heading with my career!! Well I do know where I want to be but have no idea about how to get there!!!

I have nothing thats of any help to suggest to you on this but just had to say good on you for having your head screwed on the right way and having clear views of what you aspire to do, that focus is so important - hope everything works out for you!

And btw, are you Puzzles who used to go on EW? x

[Jessey]

Hey :D you know I also have a thing for nutrition :rolleyes: like you it is something that I am very interested in and it facinates me.
I looked a couple of years ago about how I could become a nutritionist, it was pretty involved and the degrees expensive :rolleyes: unfortunatly my situation really doesn't allow me to stop earning and go and spend a fortune, what with 2 horses, 2 dogs and a house, car, OH etc stopping working and going back to school really wasn't an option for me - I wish I had stumbled across this interest when I was your age :D

Best of luck with it, if I were you I would go and see a careers advisor now and see if they can get info on what you need to be doing now to follow the path that you want too, before its too late ;) :D

[mayoguinness]

um, equine nutrition is an interesting topic. Personally In terms of feeding, I'm not to keen on barly, wheat and most grains for horses as I don't beleive they are easily digested and in the wild would very rarely if at all come across, though oats seem to be better in that respect. I know that they need basics like salt and minerals that they would get from different sorces in the wild and are not readily available in domestic setups so agree with putting salt and mineral licks out. Herbs are always good too:) I hate all these sugery, preservetive full hard to digest feeds people give to horses!! Simple systems are great in that way as there feeds are mostly grass based!! Also crushed oats and other grains once the hulk is split especially the oat, loose all the goodness and aren't as good for the horses teeth as they don't need to chew them so much!! At the end of the day for horses you just can't beat good grass;) As for NH. There are lots of good NH trainers and there are lots of bad ones. I think everything of Jayne Lavender though www.jaynelavender.com and this guy is very good //www.nevzorov-haute-ecole.com/ finding myself agree with him a lot though he is not very sympathetic towards NH and doesn't see that there are so maney different types of NH and not all of them come under what he thinks. so just ignore that bit;) he's a natural though, amazing what he does!!

[eventerbabe]

i would expect most places to ask for a science based A-level program, possibly including psychology. At the university i work/teach at entry onto our equine courses and the human nutrition courses is dependant on you having done at least biology and chemistry. The BHS/part time/distance courses that are aimed more for general interest seem to have no prerequisites. So yes, i'd say you may be disadvantaging yourself by not doing at least one science at A-level. But get in contact with prospective universities/colleges and see what advice they have :) or even consider booking an appointment with one of their careers advisors. They will know much more than a school careers advisor.

[puzzles]

And btw, are you Puzzles who used to go on EW? x

Yup, I was one hell of a b***h, wasn't I! Please don't label me as that horrible thing, this Puzzles is the real me! :-D

eventerbabe - psychology is considered to be a science as a general subject, but according to my careers-talk lady it depends on what you're studying really. i have emailed Sparsholt colege about whetehr or not i would need biology, but accidentally sent them the wrond email address to reply too (tuh!) so will do it again.

Thanks a lot guys, you're very supportive!

xx

:-)