Your horses

Every horse in HorseBook gets a profile, and that profile is where its whole story lives: who it is, what it looks like, its health history, its papers, its rides, its breeding. This page covers building and running those profiles. Scanning documents onto them is covered in Scan your paperwork, and breeding has its own mare and stallion pages.

Adding a horse

You've got three ways in, fastest first:

• Quick add — just a barn name and sex, and you've got a horse. Fill in the rest whenever. Nothing's ever locked.
• The full form — enter everything up front: registered name, breed, color, date of birth, markings, sire and dam, height, weight.
• Scan a registration paper — photograph the papers and let HorseBook create the horse from what it reads. See Scan your paperwork.

Only barn name and sex are required. Sex is stallion, mare, or gelding — it decides which breeding tools the horse gets.

What's on a profile

• Identity — barn and registered name, sex, breed, color, date of birth, markings, and lineage. Link the sire and dam to other horses in your barn and HorseBook connects the family.
• Photos — upload as many as you like; the first becomes the profile picture. Set a focal point so the horse's face stays centered wherever the photo gets cropped to a thumbnail.
• Health records — the horse's medical history (see below).
• Documents — Coggins, registration, insurance, whatever you've scanned or uploaded, filed on the horse.
• Husbandry / care sheet — feed, supplements, allergies, and habits, so a sitter or new barn manager has what they need.
• Riding & training, breeding, genetics, journal — each has its own tab; see their pages.

Health records

A horse's medical history lives right on its profile — logged by hand or dropped in by a scan. Records cover the routine and the specialized: vaccines, deworming, dental, farrier, Coggins, chiropractic, injections and maintenance work, and specialty treatments like PEMF, laser, and saltwater spa. Each carries a date, provider, cost, notes, and — where it applies — an expiration that feeds your reminders.

Separate from routine care, you can log health issues — colic, injury, lameness, illness — with symptoms, treatment, and how it resolved, so the timeline of a soundness problem is all in one place.

When a horse leaves the barn

Horses come and go. HorseBook keeps their records without cluttering your active list:

• Archive a horse when it sells or goes out on lease — mark it sold, leased out, or other. It drops off your active herd and its reminders pause, but nothing's deleted, and you can un-archive it later.
• Memorialize a horse that's passed — mark it deceased, with a date if you want. It stays in the record and in any family trees, and its reminders stop.

Your horse list shows the active herd by default; archived and memorialized horses are a toggle away.

Merging duplicates

Scanned the same horse twice, or added one by hand that already existed? Merge them: pick which record to keep, review the fields, and confirm. All the records and photos combine onto the one you keep. Merging can't be undone, so give it a look first.