Vital Signs

It’s essential that every horse owner knows his or her horse’s normal, healthy resting temperature, heart rate, respiration (breathing) rate, and other vital signs and have trained the horse to allow handling for assessment of vital signs.

This workshops provides practical information and exercises to measure the vital signs of the horse. This will help to spot abnormalities earlier and recognize when there is something wrong with the horse. You will learn how to take the temperature of the horse, how to measure heart rate and reparation, and what the normal healthy values are.