BHSQ
Level 2
QN: 501/1827/4
Curriculum Active
BHSQ Level 2 Diploma in BHS Horse Knowledge and Care
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by BHSQ. Classified as a Occupational Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 301 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 2
Awarding Body
BHSQ
Syllabus Units
7 Units
Guided Hours
301 hrs
Instant access to interactive lessons, quizzes, and spaced revision.
Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Fit, remove and maintain tack for exercise
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to fit and remove tack for exercise
- Be able to work safely
- Be able to select
- use and maintain tack
- Know how to fit and remove tack for exercise
- Know relevant health and safety legislation
2
Groom and Plait Horses and Fit Equipment
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to work safely and efficiently
- Know procedures for working safely on a yard
- Be able to strap a horse
- Know the process of grooming a rugged up horse
- Be able to plait the mane and tail with elastic bands/thread
- Be able to prepare a horse for travelling
- Know procedures for fitting and storing clothing and equipment
3
Lunge a horse under supervision
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to lunge a horse
- Be able to work safely
- Know how to lunge horses
- Know the current health and safety legislation
4
The Principles of Horse Health and Anatomy
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know the horse’s skeleton
- Know the structure, function and potential problems of the horse’s foot
- Know the position of the horse’s main internal organs
- Know the basic structure of the horse’s digestive system
- Know how to recognise a horse’s health, welfare and condition
- Know how to recognise and treat minor wounds
- Know how to care for sick horses
- Know the importance of keeping horse records
- Know the importance of worming
5
The Principles of Shoeing, Clipping and Trimming Horses
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know the reasons for clipping and relevant welfare issues
- Know how to assemble and maintain clippers
- Know why and how to pull manes and tails
- Know why and how to trim horses
- Know the procedure for shoeing, including the use of the farriers tools
- Know the procedure for removing a twisted shoe in an emergency
6
The Principles of Stabling and Grassland Care for Horses
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know the requirements for stable design and construction
- Know about horse behaviour and welfare when stabled
- Know the requirements for grassland care and pasture maintenance
- Know about horse behaviour and welfare when at grass
7
The Principles of Watering, Feeding and Fittening Horses
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know the rules of watering and understand their reasons
- Know the rules of feeding and understand their reasons
- Know a variety of feedstuffs, their preparation and suitability for horses
- Know about feeding bulk food
- Know how to produce a feed chart
- Know how to get a turned away horse fit for non stressful exercise up to one and a half hours a day
- Know how to care for a horse after work
- Know how to ‘rough off’ a horse
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 501/1827/4
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- BHSQ
- Qualification Type
- Occupational Qualification
- Operational Start
- Jan 2011