Barn Managers
You probably found this site because you’re looking to enhance the barns professional operation.
If you’re a breeder, trainer, barn manager or owner of a barn you know the importance of keeping accurate records, keeping track of all the important details and providing the best care and customer service.
Some of questions barn managers and owners ask ourselves are:
- Are all the horses under my barn managers care getting the necessary maintenance care like vaccinations, worming, trimming and shoeing to prevent any future health problems and injuries?
- Do you have accurate medical and health records at my barn managers fingertips when the vet comes out?
- Are the animals in the best condition to prevent injuries and future layoffs?
- Is the barn manager running the operation efficiently in terms of money and time as well as keeping animals injury free so there are no layoffs?
You and hopefully your barn manager go through a lot of work to make sure the horses have the right feed and supplements, vaccinations, dental and vet checkups, hooves trimmed and worming regularly. Their health and well being are on our minds 24/7 and wouldn’t it be great if we didn’t have to worry as much?
There’s an answer, Equus-Rx Pro software has four modules to help keep track of all of the animals health and nutritional needs. The different modules are nutritional analysis, conditioning, health history and tasks, and care and maintenance.
The nutritional analysis module can check diet, modify it, balance it or create a new one using the National Research Councils nutrient requirements of horses.
For a professional operation, barn managers usually have many animals with different life stages and activities. Equus-rx pro addresses all of them so you can feel comfortable that all the horses are getting the correct diet for their particular stage and activity.
Diet is vitally important to all health, welfare, reproduction, growth and performance.
For example energy is the single factor most likely to affect performance. The amount of energy depends on the type of speed and amount of work, condition of the horse and skill of the rider and the environmental conditions.
Energy deficiency and heat build up can limit the horse and the correct diet addresses these issues. Analyzing your horses’ diet and making changes can assist in delaying the onset of fatigue-reducing the risk of injury and allowing horses to maintain top speed longer.
Fatigue in muscles increases the reliance on tendons, ligaments and joints – predisposing to injury and breakdowns in these structures. Nutrition strategies should increase blood and muscle glucose and minimize heat production.
Using this software, barn managers and owners can finally take the guesswork out of feeding and supplementing. This allows you to take the risk out of getting nutritional related diseases like colic, laminitis and founder but also ensures he gets the energy, protein, lysine, vitamins and minerals he needs so he stays healthy.
The nutritional module has the largest on line feed database in the world so barn managers can choose commercial feeds, raw feeds, supplements, herbs and hay. And if we don’t have it in the program it allows you to enter it in yourself. So you always have an update and accurate record of the horse’s diet.
Now you don’t have to worry anymore if you are feeding too much or not enough.
The health history and tasks module helps you and the barn managers keep track and stay on top of all your horses’ health and overall care so his health doesn’t suffer.
Having this information at your fingertips allows you to make accurate and timely decisions at a glance. The devil is in the details and this has never been truer than when taking care of the horse.
Some of things the health history and tasks module allows barn managers to track are:
Health history allows you to see at a glance the last date for each activity and their next scheduled due date.
By tracking all these important events barn managers can control and prevent your horse from getting sick or injured.
The conditioning module helps get the horse fit and in shape for upcoming competitions.
Have you ever wondered if you were putting your horse at risk by over training them, pushing them too fast and too hard or ever considered the unnecessary pain and potential long term damage that was being inflicted?
With the conditioning module you have three exercise levels to choose from for your horses’ particular situation.
They are:
All exercise levels have a section for you to enter the horses temp, respiration, pulse and notes.
This information helps you track the horses health so he doesn’t work too hard too fast and get injured.
This program helps you exercise the horse slowly over time in order to harden tendons, muscles, and ligaments. It is important in the initial stage that the horse is only walking and trotting so there are no injuries. The horses’ fitness is like a pyramid and the wider the base the higher the peak they can reach.
The care and maintenance module allows barn managers to track your horses schedule; by entering their feeding times and detailed information about their diet.
Barn managers will be able to individually choose up to four feeding times per day. You will also be able to choose what you will be giving your horse and the amount you will be giving each time.
You will have a variety of nutritional choices including a wide variety of commercial grains and hay. Barn managers can even choose to add supplements and herbs to your horses’ diet as well.
No more missed feedings, no more giving the wrong items in the wrong amounts at the wrong time and reduce the risk of colic, laminitis and founder.
What’s great is you can print it out and post it in the feed room in the barn to prevent mistakes.
Some of the other things the care and maintenance module tracks are:
- Owner information (name, address, phone, etc)
- Professional information this is your horses’ care givers (vet, farrier, dentist)
- Your horses’ physical information (breed, color, height, age, weight, etc)
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