The Paint Horse contact list, with identification built in
A Paint Horse carer needs your number, a capable equine backup, your regular horse vet, an emergency equine practice, and the farrier, all on one sheet with the yard address. For a Paint Horse, identification belongs on that same first page: attach recent photos of both sides, the face, and any leg markings, because this breed's bold patches make an accurate description possible if the horse is found loose or needs identifying at a clinic. Write the pattern in words too, noting which side carries the larger patch, so a carer describing the horse by phone does not rely on memory.
Vet details where coat, skin, and soundness meet
A Paint Horse's vet details should cover the usual equine ground plus the skin that comes with white patterning. Note pink-skinned areas on the face or body that scald in strong sun, any past sun-related soreness your vet has seen, and the fly mask, shade, or cover routine you use in bright weather. Add dental and worming status in general terms, past lameness and which leg, any colic history and its early signs in this horse, and current feed and forage in plain measures. Tell the carer where sun protection supplies are kept so a lost mask on a bright morning is replaced, not left until you return.
Turnout, companions, and catching notes for this stock horse
Paint Horses are typically steady stock-type horses, but the carer still needs this individual's routine rather than a breed assumption. List turnout companions and any horse this Paint must not share with, the catching order at the gate, and whether a feed scoop in a bucket is the reliable catch method. Note fencing checks around the field shelter and the water trough routine, and flag any patch of the field that turns boggy where a galloping horse could strain a leg. Include rug instructions by weather in plain language, since an over-rugged horse on a mild night can sweat and chill.
When the carer calls the vet or farrier for a Paint Horse
A Paint Horse carer should call the vet at once for colic signs such as rolling or flank-watching, for a cut near a joint, an eye problem, choke, or sudden lameness, and call the farrier for a sprung or lost shoe with soreness or a hoof that feels hot. Sun-sore, weeping pink skin that spreads, or a horse miserable and rubbing despite shade also merits a vet call rather than waiting. Give written authority to box or stable the horse, and mark where the first-aid kit, spare headcollar, and torch are kept for night checks.
A walk-round that makes the Paint Horse sheet real
Walk the field, stable, and tack room with the carer, take the ID photos together so they match the horse in current coat, and watch the carer catch and turn out this horse once. Leave the list in the tack room and on their phone, photos directly under the phone numbers where they will be found during a loose-horse call. That simple order prevents confusion. Sharing the packet through KinsLe using Care Pass gives the covering carer temporary access to the Paint Horse's pattern photos, sun routine, and vet and farrier numbers in one place.