Hi Guys - Advice please

[Loociiee]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to H&H and I would firstly like to introduce myself. I'm Lucy, I have a degree in Biochemistry from Manchester and I'm currently working in the lab at Illumina. I have a gorgeous but uttering mad welsh D x TB called May, angel in the stable devil in the school

I have been thinking about going into equine nutrition for both performance of competition horses and optimum health of all horses. Since there are no masters specialising in pure equine nutrition I was thinking about doing a MSc in Human nutrition (since there are much more reputable courses on this subject at better universities) but was worried that it might throw up some questions for people if I went into equine. I then thought I could do a PGcert in Equine nutrition after my MSc but that's a lot of money to do both.

Can anyone help? Are there any other equine nutritionists around who could give me a clue??

thanks so much guys!!

Pony love x x x

 

[okepunya]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to H&H

welcome to H&H forum

 

[ChwaraeTeg]

 

[EQUIDAE]

Firstly don't - the chemistry in human nutrition is so far removed from that of human nutrition that it's probably not worth your time (for one horses metabolise fibre into formaldehyde as a source of energy - or something along those lines. I think it has something to do with the fact that horses don't have a gall bladder). There is an online nutrition course that is hosted by The Royal Dick Veterniary university in Edinburgh, via Coursera. I did it (some time ago hence the fuzziness of the actual biochemistry) and it totally made me rethink how I fed my horses.

It might be a good place to start? It would give you an idea as to whether you feel the human nutrition masters is of any value.

Linky below

https://www.coursera.org/course/equinenutrition

What about this masters? Health, performance and welfare - not specifically nutrition but should cover it I guess?

http://www.findamasters.com/search/...c-pgdip-equine-performance-health-and-welfare

ETA - you can do the nutrition module as a PGC

http://www.mastersportal.eu/studies/1816/equine-nutrition.html

 

[Loociiee]

Firstly don't - the chemistry in human nutrition is so far removed from that of human nutrition that it's probably not worth your time (for one horses metabolise fibre into formaldehyde as a source of energy - or something along those lines. I think it has something to do with the fact that horses don't have a gall bladder). There is an online nutrition course that is hosted by The Royal Dick Veterniary university in Edinburgh, via Coursera. I did it (some time ago hence the fuzziness of the actual biochemistry) and it totally made me rethink how I fed my horses.

It might be a good place to start? It would give you an idea as to whether you feel the human nutrition masters is of any value.

Linky below

https://www.coursera.org/course/equinenutrition

What about this masters? Health, performance and welfare - not specifically nutrition but should cover it I guess?

http://www.findamasters.com/search/...c-pgdip-equine-performance-health-and-welfare

ETA - you can do the nutrition module as a PGC

http://www.mastersportal.eu/studies/1816/equine-nutrition.html

Thanks for the feedback I have looked at both all of those options and I am taken by the PGC and the coursera thing, however I have been waiting a few months for the coursera course to become available and it doesn't say when it will start up again, but when it does then I'm definitely considering that. There is a course in animal nutrition which I think might be good and it covers all ruminant and non-ruminant animals so I don't know if that might be a bit broad... what do you think?

x x x

 

[JillA]

There was a free online course available from CAFRE ( http://www.cafre.ac.uk/study-at-cafre/course-finder/equine/ ) which I did shortly after the Coursera one, and I thought it was much better. I don't know how they got my contact details but they offered, I didn't approach them, and as a college it may be that they do that as a taster with more detailed courses offered for a fee, although from the prospectus they look like general equine management courses

 

[Loociiee]

Would going through the BHS stages be a good route to go? I was thinking also I could do an MSc in Equine Science which could cover it.