HEALTH MANAGEMENT CALENDAR

Broodmares

______________

• Vaccinate for eastern and western equine ____________, West Nile virus, and ___________.

• Vaccinate for ______________ at 5 and 7 months of pregnancy (use Pneumabort K for strain EVH-1.)

• Deworm at 8- to __-week intervals, depending on deworming compound used.

• Check teeth.

• Trim feet or reset shoes every 6 to _ weeks.

Early winter

• Deworm with a product that kills bots (Gasterophilus species)

• encephalomyelitis. equine influenza

• rhinopneumonitis

• 12 weeks

• 8 weeks

60 to 90 days before expected foaling date

• Feed a __________formulated for broodmares as needed to maintain mares body condition.

• Vaccinate for rhinopneumonitis at _months of pregnancy (use Pneumabort K for strain EHV-1).

• Deworm at 8- to 12-week intervals, depending on deworming compound used.

• Remove mare from _____-infected fescue pasture and hay to prevent foaling problems.

• __________ is recommended; however, remove by at least 30 days prior to foaling.

• • Continue to trim feet or reset shoes every 6 to 8 week

balanced ration

9 months

fungus

Early removal

30 to 40 days before expected foaling date

• Vaccinate for tetanus, eastern equine encephalomyelitis, western equine encephalomyelitis, West Nile virus, equine influenza, and rhinopneumonitis (respiratory form, strains EHV1 and EHV-4).

• Perform _______test. • Deworm.

Coggins

After foaling

• Continue feeding balanced ration formulated for lactating mares as needed to maintain mares body condition.

• Keep mare off fungus-infected fescue for at least __ days after foaling— longer if possible.

• Vaccinate for rabies, equine influenza, and rhinopneumonitis (strains EHV-1 and EHV-4) as recommended by veterinarian.

• Deworm at 8- to 12-week intervals, depending on deworming compound used.

• Continue to trim feet or reset shoes every 6 to 8 week

3o days

At weaning

• Decrease or omit ___________ feeds until milk production stops.

• Deworm at 8- to 12-week intervals, depending on deworming compound used.

• Continue to trim feet or reset shoes every 6 to 8 weeks

concentrate feeds

Foals 1 month of age

• Deworm with a dewormer labeled safe for young foals.

• Trim feet if needed to maintain _________.

hoof balance.

Foals 2 months of age

• Offer a creep ration balanced for nursing foals (offer at _month if foal is sampling the mares concentrate feed at this age).

• Trim feet if needed to maintain hoof balance

1 month

Foals 3 to 4 months of age

• Vaccinate for tetanus, eastern and western equine encephalomyelitis, West Nile virus, _____, and rhinopneumonitis (strains EHV-1 and EHV-4).

Remember booster vaccinations __to ___ weeks later.

• Foals shown as weanlings may need vaccinations against ________and revaccination for rhinopneumonitis at 2- to 3-month intervals and will need a Coggins test.

• Trim feet as needed to maintain hoof balance.

• Continue feeding a balanced creep ration.

• Deworm at _-week intervals with a dewormer labeled safe for young foals

rabies

4 to 8

strangles

8 weeks

Foals 7 to 9 months of age

• Vaccinate for equine influenza; remember______ vaccination 4 to 8 weeks later.

• Vaccinate for eastern and western equine encaphalomyelitis if __ months has passed since initial vaccination.

Foals born later in the ________ will not need this booster vaccination.

• Trim feet as needed to maintain hoof balance.

• Continue feeding a balanced creep ration until the foal is approximately ____ old. • Continue deworming at 8- to 12-week intervals, depending on deworming compound used; deworm with a product that kills bots in _____ ___

booster

6 months

summer

1 year old

early winter

Yearlings and Mature Horses

___________

• Administer booster vaccinations for tetanus, eastern and western equine encephalomyelitis, West Nile virus, rhinopneumonitis (strains ______ and EHV-4), rabies, and equine influenza.

Vaccinate for strangles if horses have high exposure to _______.

• Perform ______ test.

• Perform _______ soundness evaluation on breeding stallions.

• Deworm at 8- to 12-week intervals, depending on deworming compound used.

• Trim feet or reset shoes every 6 to 8 weeks

Early spring

EHV-1

strangles

Coggins

breeding

Yearling and MAture horses SUmmer

Summer

Revaccinate horses with high exposure to equine influenza and rhinopneumonitis (strains EHV-1 and • EHV-4) at 60- to __-day intervals.

• Continue deworming at 8- to 12-week intervals, depending on deworming compound used.

• Continue to trim feet or reset shoes every 6 to 8 weeks.

90 day