How to Photograph a Horse for Identification and Long-Term Records
A practical photo sequence for documenting a horse’s full-body appearance, permanent markings, identifying features, and changes over time.
Lindsay Brezinski
Why Small Heritage Horse Populations Need Better Documentation
Small heritage horse populations need more than pedigrees or occasional headcounts. Reliable documentation connects each horse’s identity, ancestry, breeding contribution and status over time.
How to Digitize Old Pedigree Charts Without Losing Context
A careful workflow for scanning old horse pedigree charts while preserving handwritten notes, source history, uncertain readings, and links to original records.
Trail Hydration: When a Horse Needs More Than a Water Break at the Trailer
A practical guide to planning trail water, helping horses drink away from home, responding to heat and knowing when hydration concerns should end the ride.
Trailer-Loading Foundations Before You Ever Walk Toward the Trailer
Teach the leading, standing, backing, yielding, and confidence skills that make trailer loading a familiar sequence instead of a departure-day struggle.
Horse Trailer Checklist: What to Inspect Before Every Trip
A calm, repeatable inspection for the tow vehicle, hitch, trailer, horse compartment, travel documents, emergency gear, and horse before every trip.
Movement in Colonial Spanish-Type Horses: Balance, Efficiency, and Terrain
Colonial Spanish horses do not share one universal gait. Learn how to assess stride, balance, intermediate gaits, terrain efficiency, and soundness in the individual horse.
Fecal Egg Counts and Deworming: A More Useful Parasite-Control Routine
Fecal egg counts can guide targeted deworming in adult horses, but they are not complete parasite screens. Learn how to interpret EPG results, use reduction testing, and build a practical farm-specific routine.
DNA Testing in Horse Lineage Work: What It Can Actually Confirm
DNA can verify or exclude proposed parents when suitable comparison profiles exist, but it cannot reconstruct an unknown pedigree or grant registry status by itself.
Microchips, Brands, Photos, and Markings: Building a Strong Identification Record
Learn how to combine a verified microchip number, identification photos, written signalment, permanent markings, and supporting papers into a durable horse record.