Horse Care Schedule and Due-Date Chart
Keep four kinds of routine care running on four different intervals visible on one page, so the next due date is read rather than guessed.
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Due-date charts and care records for horses and ponies, with the intervals left blank for the ones your own farrier, vet and dentist give you.
Routine equine care is four or five jobs running on four or five different intervals, none of which line up, and all of which are remembered badly. These sheets exist to hold the dates rather than to set them — what should be done and how often is a conversation with your vet, your farrier and your yard.
Keep four kinds of routine care running on four different intervals visible on one page, so the next due date is read rather than guessed.
Record worming with the active ingredient written down, which is what makes a resistance-aware plan possible instead of dosing out of habit.
Keep a vaccination history with batch numbers, which is the record a competition venue, a livery yard or an insurer will ask to see.
Make the shoeing cycle visible, which is what stops a horse going three weeks over and losing a shoe in the mud.
Keep a dental history so that changes in a horse's mouth are tracked rather than rediscovered every couple of years.
Track weight and condition across a year so seasonal gain is caught in spring rather than discovered in summer.
Put the feeding instructions where the feeding happens, written so that somebody who has never done it can do it correctly.
Give whoever is standing in for you one page with everything they need, on the stable door rather than in a folder at home.
Keep a record of work done so that progress over a block is visible and a pattern of stiffness is noticed early.
Follow a prescribed rehabilitation programme exactly and record the response, so the vet's review is based on evidence rather than recollection.
Keep the veterinary history and the insurance position in one place, which matters when a claim depends on showing continuity.
Settle who was supposed to do what, and show quickly when one person is carrying more than their share.
Take the information a yard needs at the point a horse arrives, rather than trying to find it during an emergency at eleven at night.
Find out whether a yard covers itself, by putting the fees and the costs on the same pair of pages.
Record whose property is on the yard at the point it arrives, which prevents almost every argument about a missing rug.
Make a share or loan arrangement survive its first busy fortnight, by writing down who does what and having it ticked at the time.
Track field rest and poo-picking, the two things that do most for horse grazing and that nobody records.
Notice the slow changes in an older horse, which the person who sees it every day is always the last to spot.
Keep a season's results and costs in one place, so qualifications are tracked and the true cost of competing is visible.
Record tack checks so that worn stitching is found in the tack room rather than discovered at a canter.
Record journeys and the pre-loading checks, which is both good practice and, for longer or commercial journeys, often a requirement.
Keep the kit complete, because the time you discover the bandages were used in February is the night you need them.
Work out what a horse actually costs in a year, which is a figure most owners have never added up.
Check the yard's fire risks every month and know the horses can be got out in a hurry. A plan nobody has walked through is only a piece of paper.
Find the loose bolt, the bare wire and the cracked window before a horse does. Each fault stays on the log until someone has repaired it and checked the repair.
Walk the fields with a list and leave a record of what was found and what was done about it. A plant pulled and logged this year tells you where to look next year.
Spot a horse running above its own normal while there is still time to keep it apart. It suits new arrivals in isolation and in-contact horses during an outbreak.
Introduce a new horse step by step and keep a daily record of how the herd responds. A horse kept off the hay shows up on paper before it shows in its weight.
Keep every horse's daily work and rest days on one weekly page, ready for an inspection. An uneven week across the string is easier to see when it is all in one place.
Know which hat has been dropped or fallen in, and when it was taken out of use. Shared hats get passed round, and the register keeps track of each one.
Get the facts of a road or bridleway incident down on paper the same day. A clear account with a registration and footage is what any report will need.
Make each agreed visit to a loaned horse a checked record that owner and loanee both initial. Concerns are written down with an action and a date, not left as a feeling.
Get the yard ready for frost, mud and short days before the first hard freeze. Each job is dated and initialled, so it is clear what is done and by whom.
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