National online program offering equine education courses to achieve your horse-management goals. Take a Course with MY Horse University!

Are you interested in learning more about your horse? Whatever breed of horse you love, your level of experience, or location, you’ll benefit from the educational opportunities offered by My Horse University, an online learning community developed by world-renowned experts.

Horse owners, enthusiasts, and professionals can now enroll in three online courses: Horse Selection and Evaluation,Horse Behavior and Welfare and Horse Nutrition. These self-paced courses allow learners to access materials and instruction whenever it is convenient for them.

The Horse Behavior and Welfare online course is designed to help horse owners better understand how horses learn, why they react in various situations, and how to use this information in handling and training.

The Horse Selection and Evaluation online course is designed to help participants learn to evaluate a horse's conformation, ask pertinent questions, and examine their goals before making purchase decisions.

My Horse University launched the Equine Nutrition Course in September 2008. This course is designed to help participants learn about many aspects of horse nutrition, including anatomy, horse behavior, nutrients, nutritional requirements, feedstuffs, evaluating and balancing a ration, diseases affecting nutrition, and feeding management.

“The courses offered through My Horse University are great resources for everyone from the novice horse person to those who have owned horses for many years. Because they are offered online, participants can work at their own pace, can go back and repeat sections, and use the information to fit their learning styles and needs,” says Christine Skelly, director and founder of My Horse University.

The registration fee for each course is $200. Participants may take up to six months to complete each course, and at the completion will receive a certificate of achievement.

Stay tuned for future courses on health, reproduction, and exercise physiology.

About My Horse University

My Horse University is a national online program for horse enthusiasts based at Michigan State University (MSU), one of the top U.S. universities in equine science and management. Founded by MSU’s Department of Animal Science, MSU Extension, and MSU Global, this program offers equine education courses and resources that can be tailored to achieve horse-management goals. For more information, visit: http://www.myhorseuniversity.com.