A mixed group tempts owners toward a single group line — one date, one product, everyone done. Resist that shortcut. Horses, donkeys and ponies grazing the same field carry different burdens, respond differently and show problems differently; donkeys in particular can carry a significant burden while looking perfectly well. A record that treats the group as one animal hides exactly the individuals who need attention. The workable record is a group record built from individual lines: one line per animal, updated from evidence.
One Line Per Animal, Always
Give every horse, donkey and pony its own named line, marked with its type so a donkey is never quietly folded into the horses' entries. Donkeys are recorded individually like the horses, because they are individuals in every way that matters here: their counts, their treatments and their follow-ups belong to them alone. When a new animal joins the group, it gets a line from its first day, headed with what is known of its history and flagged where that history is unknown. When an animal leaves, close its line with the entry label of its departure so old entries are never mistaken for current ones.
Counts First, Then What the Vet Directed
Modern worming for equines is led by evidence rather than habit. The record therefore starts with the fecal egg count: the sample's entry label and weekday, the result returned, and the animal it belongs to. Then record what the vet directed in response — treat this animal, leave that one untreated and recheck, change the grazing group, or repeat a count sooner — written in the vet's own terms beside the result that prompted it. If a treatment follows, log the product as the vet or label named it, the weekday it was given and who gave it. Your record should not carry a worming schedule of its own either: the rhythm of counts and treatments is agreed with your vet, shaped by your grazing, your stocking and each animal's results, and it changes as those results change. The record's job is to hold that agreed rhythm accurately, animal by animal.
Each animal's line also carries when its next count falls due under the plan you agreed with the vet, so due dates are visible at a glance rather than reconstructed from a laboratory receipt. Together, those lines form the group's Pet Passport worming record: a single place where an individual history can be read in seconds before a sample is taken or a decision is made.
Keeping the Record Honest Over a Season
Update each line on the day the result arrives or the treatment is given, not at the end of the season. Pair the worming lines with two grazing notes that give them meaning — which animals grazed together, and any group changes — because a rising count reads differently on an animal that just moved onto rested ground than on one that has grazed the same paddock all year. At each vet visit, walk the record line by line: counts trending down where treatment followed direction, any animal repeatedly returning higher counts than its companions, and any donkey whose quiet results deserve a second look precisely because donkeys hide burden well. Close each review by confirming the next due count for every line, so nobody leaves assuming someone else noted it. Kept animal by animal, the Pet Passport worming record on KinsLe shows the vet exactly which individual is due a fresh count next.