Quick Start: Your First Hour in the Equine Farm Manager
Set up the farm, herd, fields, and hay in about an hour, then learn the weekly rhythm that keeps the plan honest.
12 guides
Equine Farm Manager: Complete User Guide
The full reference for every tab — farm, horses, fields, forage, condition, recovery, manure, health, breeding, reports, and settings — with a glossary and troubleshooting.
Forage & Hay Planning User Guide
The full Forage Ledger method, now inside the app: herd, waste, hay library, lab imports, cost per Mcal, feeding window, feed chart, and the inventory-drawing feeding log.
Annual Forage Planning at a Glance
A two-page overview of forage planning in the app — what it calculates, what it tracks, and how a farm uses it through the year.
Pasture, Grazing & Sugar Risk
Import paddock borders, log rotations, set grazing systems, read seasonal pasture sugar, and use the pasture intake calculator.
Body Condition & Weight
Henneke scoring with multiple assessors, target ranges by horse type, weight-tape estimates, and management notes that mark the trend.
Recovery Ledger: Conditioning & Recovery Guide
The full post-work protocol — heart-rate recovery, respiration, heat index, lactate, and the whole-horse check — now recorded on the Recovery tab.
Manure & Compost Planning
Annual manure and bedding volume by housing, compost pile records, analysis imports, and a phosphorus-first application planner matched to soil tests.
Biosecurity & Parasite Records
Vaccines, tests, quarantine, visitors, transport, and incidents in one log, a 60-day coming-due list, and fecal egg counts that classify each horse's shedder status.
Breeding & Foaling Records
Breeding records by mare and stallion, 340-day due dates, status from bred to foaled, adding foals to the herd, and stallion service records.
Reports, Backup & Settings
Comprehensive, per-horse, per-field, and barn-sheet reports; Save to file and Open a saved file; editable lists and constants; integrity check.
Barn Wall Quick Reference
One page for the barn wall: BCS targets, rest and recovery norms, heat index bands, feeding waste, pasture sugar timing, FEC bands, foaling math, and stop signs.
What's new in version 2.0
- Updated: the Forage Ledger user guide and fact sheet, the body-condition fact sheet (now with weight and management notes), and the Recovery Ledger guide, rewritten for the combined app.
- New: a Quick Start, a Complete User Guide, and guides for pasture and grazing, manure and compost, biosecurity and parasites, breeding and foaling, and reports and backup.
- New: a one-page barn wall card with the numbers you reach for most.