Horsetin Editorial

How to Take Horse Vital Signs, Step by Step

Where to put the thermometer, where to find the pulse, how to count breaths, and the specific ways owners get a wrong number without knowing.

Adult horses run 99.5 to 101.5 F and 28 to 44 beats per minute. But the range is a population. Here is how to find what is normal for your horse.

Horses are pregnant about 340 days, but 320 to 370 is normal. What each day count actually means, and why your mare's own history beats the average.

Most foals wean at 4 to 7 months. But the research says the group and the paddock after separation matter more than gradual versus abrupt.

Miller says do it. Rennes and Texas A&M found it does not help and may harm. Here is both sides, named, plus what the first hour is really for.

Complement her weaknesses" means nothing until you write them down. A three-filter method for choosing a stallion, starting with your mare.

How to record a mare's cycle from spring transition to season end, what each column is for, and the point where the chart says book the stallion.

Winking, squatting, teasing scores, and the mares that show nothing. What behavior tells you about a mare in heat, and exactly where it misleads.

A red membrane instead of the white sac means the foal has stopped getting oxygen. The vet-sourced sequence, in order, and what happens after.

Flank-watching, sweating, kicking at the belly. Colic and first-stage labor look nearly identical. What separates them, and the vet's real rule.