Tips, guides, and insights for modern horse management
A walk through HorseBook Business with a sample stallion station: the season on one page, a stallion's book, one booking from contract to balance, your own contract with its blanks marked, and what the mare owner sees on her phone. $39.99 a month, with no per-mare or per-stallion charge.
HorseBook's top plan, until this week called Breeder, is now HorseBook Business: for people whose horses are a business, starting with the stallion operation. Outside-mare bookings, collections and shipments, deposits and balances that carry the farm's own payment link, and contracts the mare owner signs on her phone.
HorseBook's Business plan now sends a stallion breeding contract as a link. The mare owner reads and signs it on her phone with no account, each side gets a signed copy by email, and the agreement stays on the booking. The farm's own PDF contract works, and so does paper.
What a broodmare lease has to settle: term dates, who gets the foal, lease fee or share, board and vet, insurance, and registry paperwork. Free PDF.
A foaling kit checklist grouped by purpose: the foaling area, the mare, the foal, the people. Plus what to write down at the foaling. Free printable PDF.
The fall work that decides how a February breeding season goes: the book, the contracts, the vet, the shipping, and the November 30 stallion breeding report.
What belongs in a stallion breeding contract: booking and stud fees, the live foal guarantee, shipped semen, rebreed, and the registry paperwork. Free PDF.
Six HorseBook updates since August: the Broodmare Board, medications with withdrawal tracking, vital signs, one-sentence Quick Entry, foaling windows that follow the record, and read-only access when a plan lapses. What landed and where it lives on iPhone and web.
What a broodmare board has to answer at 10, 30, or 80 mares, and how the HorseBook Broodmare Board answers it: Pregnant, Served, or Open for every mare, the stallion, days since cover, the foaling window, and the last check, filtered by sire, on iPhone and web.
HorseBook's Quick Entry turns one typed or dictated sentence into structured vitals, medication, and care records across every horse it names, with a confirm screen before anything saves. What it does, what lands where, and where it lives on iPhone and web.
What a farrier record should capture for every horse in the book — visit date, trim or shoes, who did the work, cost per head, and the next cycle date. A guide to equine record keeping for hoof care across a full string, and the point where the paper book gives out.
An honest, side-by-side look at HorseBook and BreedWise — a free offline breeding logbook and a full operation record system. Who each one is built for, what they cost, and the difference that decides it.
Every stallion owner keeps a mental list of which mares cross well with their stud — and which ones they'd pass on. HorseBook's mare compatibility notes put that list in the stallion book: a card per mare with a rating, the cross history, temperament and genetic notes, and your recommend-or-pass call.
How HorseBook keeps a mare's whole breeding season — heat cycles, the cover, pregnancy checks with the ultrasound photos attached, progesterone courses, the foaling window on your calendar, and the foal's own record when it's over. On every plan, iPhone and web.
Six HorseBook updates shipped since the last roundup: the Business plan and the full stallion book, deeper mare and foaling records, one-tap Done on reminders, real push notifications for the morning digest, and a long list of everyday fixes. Here's the tour.
A free printable horse vaccination record chart, plus an honest comparison of the apps that keep shot dates, Coggins, and vet history findable at a show gate.
The paperwork chain that turns a foal you bred into a registered horse — the stallion breeding report, mare ownership at foaling, foal photos and markings, the DNA parentage kit, and filing before the deadline. A record-keeping guide for breeders. Updated for 2026.
The Business plan is the stallion side of HorseBook — the full stallion book (bookings, collections, shipments, the season summary) plus a billing toolkit: fee schedules with deposit and balance parts, your own payment links, each payment recorded with its date and method, and read-only invoices you share with mare owners. It never touches your money. Here's what it does and who it's for.
A record-keeping guide for stallion owners — the mare book, breeding contracts, the collection and shipment log, deposit and balance bookkeeping per booking, live foal guarantee tracking, and the end-of-season report to your registry. Updated for 2026.
When the farrier trims a whole string on one visit, tracking it horse-by-horse is backwards. Here's how to keep a single farrier schedule for a group of horses — one date, one reminder, one 'done' — instead of juggling a wall calendar and a dozen phone alarms.
Which states require a horse brand inspection, when you need one, what it costs, and the lifetime travel permit that saves you from doing it over and over. A plain-English, state-by-state guide for western horse owners and haulers.
When you have to file a mortality or major-medical claim on a horse, the paperwork you kept beforehand decides how it goes. Here's the documentation insurers typically ask for — and how to have it ready before you need it.
A serious buyer wants to see the horse's history — vaccines, Coggins, breeding, the works. Here's how to hand them one clean printout instead of a shoebox of paper, straight from the records you've already been keeping.
There's no HorseBook app in the Play Store, and that's on purpose. This week the web app got good enough on a phone to be the real thing: add it to your Android home screen, turn on morning reminders, and keep every horse record in your pocket. Here's how to set it up.
Registration papers get lost in a move, a barn fire, or a shoebox nobody can find. Here's how to request a duplicate from the major breed registries — and how to make sure you never have to do it again.
Boarders, half-leases, a client's mare in for the season — plenty of the horses you keep records on aren't yours. Here's how to track a horse you don't own without your list pretending it belongs to you, and keep the real owner's info attached to it.
The farrier comes on one day and trims eight horses. So why would you schedule that eight times? HorseBook's care plans put a whole group of horses on one recurring schedule — farrier, deworming, dental — with one reminder and one 'done' when the visit happens.
A records app only helps if it reminds you before the deadline, not after. Here's how HorseBook's morning reminder works — a once-a-day summary of what's due, on your phone or in your inbox, and nothing on the days there's nothing to do.
Most horse apps track the paperwork. HorseBook also tracks the work — every ride, lesson, and groundwork session, logged in about twenty seconds, with an on-device voice memo option and a plain-English summary of how much a horse has actually been doing.
HorseBook 1.1.5 adds the stuff you need once you're past a couple of horses at one barn: farm locations, tracking horses you don't own, archiving the ones that sell, and PDF herd reports and sale packets. Here's what landed and how to use it.
Stop retyping vet bills and digging for Coggins papers. Here is how to scan your horse documents — registration, vet bills, Coggins, health certificates — into one organized place, and how AI can fill in the record for you.
What a horse breeding app has to track — heat cycles, cover dates, pregnancy checks, foaling — and an honest look at the horse breeding software that helps.
An honest map of the horse record keeping apps for 2026 — what each one is actually built for, who it fits, and what it costs, from the folks who make one of them.
A plain-English guide to horse record keeping — what to track, paper vs. spreadsheet vs. app, and how to keep equine records current without a pile of data entry.
A Coggins test and a health certificate are not the same thing — and for most interstate travel you need both. Here's what each one is, how long it lasts, and when you need it.
An honest, side-by-side look at HorseBook and Barncat — two owner-first iPhone apps that take very different approaches to keeping a horse. Here is which one fits you.
An honest, side-by-side look at HorseBook and CRIO Online — who each one is built for, what they cost, and the differences that decide it for most people.
An honest look at HorseBook and Equilab — two apps that solve different problems. One tracks your rides; the other keeps your horse's records. Here's which you need.
An honest, side-by-side look at HorseBook and equineGenie — who each one is built for, how they run, what they cost, and the big difference that decides it for most people.
An honest look at HorseBook and EquiTrace — two apps aimed at different jobs. One is horse-ID and health tech for farms and vets; the other keeps an owner or breeder’s records. Here is which you need.
An honest, side-by-side look at HorseBook and My Cheval — who each one is built for, what they cost, and the differences that decide it for most people.
An honest, side-by-side look at HorseBook and Stable Secretary — who each one is built for, what they cost, and the one big difference that decides it for most people.
Which horse records to keep for life, which to keep for a few years, and which you can let go. A plain-English retention guide for owners, breeders, and barns.
What paperwork and records you need prepared before an emergency — evacuation documents, proof of ownership, identification photos, and why digital backups matter more than you think. Updated for 2026.
A practical guide to mare reproductive tracking — heat cycles, pregnancy monitoring, foaling records, neonatal care documentation, and the details experienced breeders wish they had recorded from the start. Updated for 2026.
A practical guide to breeding records — heat cycles, ultrasounds, breeding dates, semen evaluation, stallion contracts, foaling records, and registry requirements. Updated for 2026.
Compare registration requirements, fees, DNA rules, and transfer processes across AQHA, APHA, Jockey Club, Appaloosa, Arabian, and other major breed registries. Updated for 2026.
Every document you need for horse shows and competitions — Coggins, health certificates, vaccination records, USEF/FEI/AQHA/APHA requirements, and brand inspections. Updated for 2026.
The complete guide to equine vaccinations — AAEP core and risk-based vaccines, foal schedules, competition requirements, deworming, and how to keep it all organized. Updated for 2026.
A practical guide to equine record keeping: how to organize your horse's health records, from vaccination histories to farrier schedules, so everything is there when you need it.
Introducing the HorseBook blog — your new go-to resource for horse management tips, record-keeping best practices, and product updates.
A breakdown of actual horse ownership costs — board, feed, vet, farrier, and the expenses nobody warns you about. Real numbers from real horse owners.
An honest comparison of paper binders, spreadsheets, and horse record apps. Pros, cons, and when to make the switch to digital.
A practical guide to the veterinary records every horse owner should keep — what to track for each category, why specific details matter, and how to make the records actually useful. Updated for 2026.
The complete checklist of paperwork for buying or selling a horse — bill of sale, registration transfer, pre-purchase exam, Coggins, health records, and what most people forget. Updated for 2026.
Every document you need to haul horses across state lines — health certificates, Coggins, brand inspections, entry permits, and a state-by-state quick reference table. Updated for 2026.
A Coggins test usually costs $20–$70, with results in 3–5 business days. What the test is, why your horse needs one, how long results are valid by state, and what to do if you lose the paperwork.