Transporting Your Horse Online CPD
£30.00
Transporting Your Horse Online CPD. This short online course will cover the legislation, as well as the health and welfare aspects for travelling your horse.
Description
A UK Rural Skills Certified Course.
Achieve national certification from a recognised accreditation organisation: UKRS
This short online course will cover the legislation, as well as the health and welfare aspects for travelling your horse. It will also prepare you to take the test for Animals in Transit (Short Journeys) Equine (please note it is not the LANTRA Qualification) that is a legal requirement for transporting Horses in the UK in connection with an economic activity,* but is also offers invaluable knowledge for anyone transporting horses.
It is a great CPD Course to add to your welfare portfolio
This course covers the following:
- Legislation
- Horses welfare and who is responsible
- Exemptions
- Inspection
- Where to get advice
- The journey – preparation and duration
- Potential disruptions to the journey
- Ramp angles for loading and unloading
- The vehicle
- Horses fit for the journey
- Loading and unloading horses
- Spaces allowances
- Separation
- Vehicle partitions
- Causes and signs of stress in horses
- Temperature within vehicle
- Transport of ponies
- Transport of pregnant horses / recently given birth
- Vehicle pen sizes
Upon successful completion of this online course you can go on to take the LANTRA Short Journey certificate. The course covers the theory only (It is not the LANTRA Course) aspects preparing trainees for their assessment for the LANTRA Certificate **
* (over 65km and up to 8 hours) accredited by Lantra Awards, City and Guilds or other Awarding Organisations that are approved for the animals in transit/horses qualification.
**This course is solely theory for the LANTRA exam- IT IS NOT THE LANTRA QUALIFICATION: it is to support the student PRIOR to the LANTRA Exam. If you would like to take the examination- you will need to contact a LANTRA examination centre to complete FULL LANTRA TRANSPORT CERTIFICATE including practical that is required to professionally transport horses *
All the material is available for you to access online via UKRS Partner systems.
For more information about UKRS please visit their website.
By purchasing this course you agree to our ONLINE COURSE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
