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Equine records · EQ-26
Horse Field Safety and Poisonous Plant Check
A free printable horse field check: gates, fences, water, shelter, litter and holes on each walk, with poisonous plants found, removed and disposed of.
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2 pages. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
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What this sheet is for
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.
Who it is for
Horse owners, yard managers and landowners who graze horses, including people who rent grazing.
How to use it
- Write the fixed hazards once at the top: overhead lines, ditches, setts and trees.
- On each walk, tick each column that is sound or clear and write a note for anything that is not.
- Log every poisonous plant found on page two, with how it was removed and disposed of and a date to look again.
- Agree the season plan with the landowner, so everyone knows who does each job.
What is on the sheet
2 pages, in this order:
Page 1
Printed under the title: A walk log for horse fields: gates, fences, water, shelter and the ground on each walk, then the poisonous plants found and the season's control jobs on page two.
Identify it before you pull it. No list of poisonous plants is printed, and nothing here identifies one. Get anything you are unsure of identified before you pull it, wear gloves, and check the rules where you are for disposing of it. Agree in writing whether the owner or the landowner does each control job.
Write-on lines: Yard or land · Fields covered · Landowner and phone · Fixed hazards to remember: overhead lines, ditches, setts, trees
Field walks — Plants: poisonous plants seen. Seeds: acorns, sycamore seeds
Table, 12 rows: Date · Field · Gates · Fences · Water · Shelter · Plants · Seeds · Litter · Holes · Horses · Notes · By
Page 2
Poisonous plants found — one line per find
Table, 10 rows: Date · Field · Plant · Where in field · How many · Removed how · Disposed how · Look again · By
Season plan — plant control and field jobs for the year
Table, 8 rows: Job · Fields · When · Who is responsible · Done
Questions
Why is there no list of poisonous plants on the sheet?
Because which plants matter depends on where you are, and a short printed list could make a plant left off it look safe. Get anything you are unsure of identified by your vet, an adviser or a botanist, and write its name as identified.
Who is responsible for removing poisonous plants?
It depends on the grazing agreement and on the rules where you are, so the sheet does not say. The season plan has a column to write down who has agreed to do each job, owner or landowner, so it is settled before the plants are in flower.
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