Care and Management of Horses: A Practical Guide for the Horse Owner. This item is unavailable.Care and Management of Horses: A Practical Guide for the Horse Owner

This comprehensive guide provides a commonsense approach to keeping a horse healthy, sound, and happy by encouraging horse owners to center horsekeeping practices around the horse's needs.

Thomas writes regularly for more than thirty farm and livestock publications and about twenty-five horse publications, including EQUUS, The Horse, Equine Chronicle, California Thoroughbred, Working Horse, Saddle & Bridle, Eclectic Horseman, Louisiana Horse, Florida Horse, New Mexico Horse Breeder, Polo, Central States Horseman, USDF Connection, and others.

She has published twenty-three books, including Care & Management of Horses: A Practical Guide for the Horse Owner; A Horse in Your Life: A Guide for the New Owner; Your Horse and You; Horses: Their Breeding, Care and Training; The Wild Horse Controversy; Storey's Guide to Raising Horses; Storey's Guide to Training Horses; The Horse Conformation Handbook; Stable Smarts; Understanding Equine Hoof Care; Good Horse, Bad Habits; and Horse Tales: True Stories from an Idaho Ranch.

Thomas also wrote Beyond the Flames: A Family Touched by Fire about her daughter's severe burn injury, sustained fighting a range fire, and valiant fight for life; the long road to recovery; and the effect the experience has had on their family.

Thomas and her husband continue to raise beef cattle and use horses on their Sky Range Ranch in the mountains of eastern Idaho. Their daughter, Andrea Daine, lives nearby on the ranch and helps with the cattle care, horses, haying, irrigating, etc.; their son, Michael, and his wife, Carolyn, own and operate the upper part of the ranch.