Routine Health Care

The stable staff will assume responsibility for scheduling regular veterinary and farrier care. Pre-scheduled veterinary and farrier appointments will be posted on the barn message board in advance with the purpose of the appointment and approximate cost. You will be billed directly by the veterinarian or farrier and it is your responsibility to be sure that your credit card is on file with them, or you may leave an open check. Open checks are kept in the office cash box under lock and key.

If you have a specific farrier and veterinarian that you would like to use, you may assume responsibility for arranging your appointments, just let the stable staff know ahead of time and be sure to include a receipt for your services so that we can note the treatments in their medical history folder.

If you schedule your own veterinarian or farrier visit, you are responsible for arranging to hold your horse for the appointment.  Please pick up the hoof trimmings and check for nails that may have been dropped on the ground after farrier visits. After a veterinary visit, please make sure the area is clean of any veterinary supplies, fluids or debris.

Windfall Equestrian Center requires regular vaccination on all horses on the premises, according to the following veterinarian recommended schedule.

Changes may be made for pregnant mares, foals, or horses competing in or traveling to other areas of the country.  Exceptions on some of these requirements may be made in rare occasions on the recommendation of a veterinarian.  If you would like to vaccinate your own horse, you must provide the empty box as proof of vaccination to stable management.

Vaccination Schedule
	Spring	Fall
Equine Influenza (A2)
Rhinopneumonitis (Equine Herpes Virus EHV-1 and EHV-4)
Tetanus Toxoid
Eastern Encephalitis
Western Encephalitis
Strangles
West Nile Virus

Windfall Equestrian Center requires every horse on the premises to have a current (within 12 months) Coggins test on file at all times.  Coggins tests are regularly scheduled by the stable in the spring of each year.

All horses will have a dental check-up every spring and horses that are notorious for dental problems will be checked in the fall also.

All geldings and stallions will have their sheath checked and/or cleaned if necessary during vaccination or dental appointments.

Farrier care is regularly scheduled every 6-8 weeks.  If your horse loses a shoe or needs farrier attention, please note it on the message board. Please try to find the lost shoe before another horse steps on it and becomes injured.

Deworming is provided by the stable, according to the veterinarian-recommended schedule below.  You may choose to have your horse on either a rotational deworming schedule or a daily deworming schedule.