4,777 answers about horses & farm animals
Horses and farm animals run on routine — feeding schedules, hoof and health care, safe fencing and calm handling, in all weather. This page gathers the horse and farm animal library of KinsLe Answers in one place, organized by topic from daily care to travel and senior animals. Every answer is original, written by KinsLe, and tied to a real KinsLe feature.
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405 answers in Records & Organization — page 16 of 17
Keep one record per doe per season, in a fixed field order: the doe, the service date and sire, the expected date counted from about 150 days, the kids born with number, sex and whether each was born alive, the placenta, the first nursing, and kid outcomes as they become known — weaned, kept or sold. Filled in that…
A vet meeting a goat herd for the first time needs the herd on paper: its composition and ages, breeding and kidding history, worming and fecal-testing history as recorded, losses with entry-label notes, the feeding regime, and any previous treatments written exactly as they were directed. Assembled before the visit,…
A boarding stable usually asks for a set of four things on arrival: your horse's health and vaccination history as recorded, the feeding routine in writing, veterinary and emergency contacts, and insurance details where held. The stable's agreed terms should be confirmed in writing as part of the same arrival…
Before selling a donkey, prepare paperwork that lets its full care history travel with it rather than starting again elsewhere. Gather its passport or identification record, microchip details, vaccination, dental, farrier and veterinary history, plus feeding and companion needs. Hand over a one-page current care…
Settle five questions before the document changes hands: whose name the passport document is in, how the transfer is recorded, whether its identity details read correctly against the horse — markings described and chip number read back against the record — what history travels with the sale, and what copies the seller…
Record six things at every shoeing, in the same order: the visit, shoe type and size, changes made, the farrier's comments, anything to watch, and the next visit due. Keep that entry in the horse's Pet Passport, on the six-week shoeing cycle most working horses follow, so each visit reads against the one before it and…
Keep a separate file for each horse, in date order, and group every incident into its own claim-ready bundle holding the invoice, the vet's report and any discharge note together. Scan paper promptly, name each scan for the horse and the incident, and back the scans up in a second place away from the yard office, with…
Send the whole picture: ages, breed or mix, laying status, health history as recorded, the feed regime the birds are on, their housing and ranging habits, and broodiness or molt status where relevant. State ages by group, laying status bird by bird or group by group, and be plain about hens that have stopped laying.…
Numbered and colored leg bands do the daily work for similar chickens, because a band can be read at feeding time without catching the hen. Back each band with clear photographs of the comb, face and plumage, plus written notes on markings such as a speckled breast, a bent toe or a paler hackle — the details that stay…
Keep a full identification set for him: photographs from both sides, front and back, plus close-ups of markings, whorls, scars and any brand, taken in clean light with his coat dry. Draw a marking diagram with the marks placed where they sit on him, keep the set in his Pet Passport, and refresh it as his coat changes.…
Give each doe her own page, laid out in a fixed order: her name or ID, service date and buck, expected kidding date worked from that service date, since goat gestation is about 150 days, then labor signs with times. As she kids, record each kid born with whether it was alive and its sex, whether the placenta passed,…
A stable-door emergency card should carry, in order: the horse's name and description, the owner contact, an emergency contact, the veterinarian contact, the current feed routine in brief, any medication recorded exactly as the veterinarian directed, known conditions or allergies, and who may authorize emergency…
Give each sow her own herd-book page and record, in the same order every time: the service entry with the boar used, the expected farrowing worked from it, since pig gestation runs about 114 days, the keeper's three months, three weeks, and three days, the farrowing outcome split into born alive, stillborn, and…
With overlapping duck clutches, organise records by clutch code first, then by egg, duckling and mother within it. Give every clutch a unique code showing parents, setting date and nest or incubator location, and label eggs discreetly. Use a different coloured notebook band or file tab per clutch so overlapping…
Keep one year log for the flock, with an entry for every handling: each sheep, or a clearly stated group, paired with an entry label for shearing, for crutching, meaning shearing wool away from the breech and belly, and for foot checks, noting what was found and what was done each time. Record foot problems per sheep…
Weigh and score your donkey on a fixed day each month, using the same method every time: weight by weigh tape or a scale, and condition judged by eye and by hand, feeling the crest, ribs, and hindquarters individually, because a donkey lays fat down in patches that a single glance averages away. Write each month's…
Keep one record per cow for each year, built from the same fields every time: the service and the bull used as recorded, the calving entry labeled by year, how the calving went, whether unaided, assisted, or with a vet called, the calf outcome, covering whether it was alive, its sex, and whether it was up and nursing,…
Track laying from the nest side rather than the bird side, by counting eggs per house each day, watching which hens use which nests during morning laying hours, and fitting leg bands where flocks mix so age groups stay identifiable at a glance. Compare each hen's own rhythm over several weeks instead of judging from…
Give each field a page of its own and log every move the same way: which flock went in, which flock came out, how many sheep were in each group, and the weekday of the move. Work out the rest each field earns by counting forward from the weekday it was last grazed, and plan the next move from that figure rather than…
Count eggs separately for each hen house at the same collection round each day, and write the count down beside that day's feed, water, weather, and any disturbance, such as a dog loose in the yard or a drinker found empty at dawn. A single house that drops while the others hold steady points toward a local cause,…
Build the calendar from the records themselves: for every horse, goat and flock, copy the next due date your veterinarian set, taken from the vet record or the product label, rather than working from a general interval. Give each species group its own calendar view and its own color, list horses and goats as…
Build the traveling horse's paperwork as a packet filed by expiry date, not by the day it arrived: the Coggins result, any health certificate, and supporting records ordered so the document due to expire first sits at the front, where its renewal flag is raised. Raise those flags before travel bookings are confirmed,…
Keep one breeding-season record for the mare with the same fields every time: each season's observed signs entered with an entry label or weekday, every covering date, the scan results written exactly as the veterinarian reported them, and the expected foaling window worked forward from the covering date and labeled…
Keep one log row for every goat, with the goat's name or tag, the trim entry, what the feet showed, and who trimmed them. Work each goat's next due time forward from that goat's last trim, using the herd's interval — many herds trim roughly every four to six weeks — and flag any goat past that point as overdue so the…
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