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Story by: Jackie Bellamy

Tracking vital health data in real-time on your smart phone or tablet is a snap with Equine Guelph’s new Horse Health Tracker App! Whether you have one horse or a whole herd, this app empowers horse owners to give the ultimate in care to their animals. Assess your horse’s vital health data, body condition score and body weight with a few simple clicks and easily share this information with your healthcare team.

Upgrades allow you to keep track of information such as heart rate, temperature and respiration for up to 50 horses! Special graphs plot this vital data over a 13-month period. Instructional videos are also included in the upgrade to show you how to properly perform the assessments. Appointment reminders sync with your smart phone calendar, making it easy to stay on top of your horse’s health care regime.

The app accommodates multiple checks per day, making it the perfect tool to monitor sick horses as well as healthy horses. Its built-in e-mail capability allows you to share data with your veterinarian.

“The ability to share pertinent information with your veterinarian is a wonderful feature,” says equine practitioner, Dr. Laura Frost. “The Horse Health Tracker makes it easy for the horse owner to systematically collect vital health data and provide this information in real-time to a veterinarian. This app ensures that important pieces of the puzzle are not missed when communicating health concerns regarding a sick horse.”

The Horse Health Tracker App is a must-have management tool for you to become the leading advocate for your horse’s health. A user guide is available at EquineGuelph.ca. The App is available for download at the App Store and Google Play.

Not only will this app benefit your horse healthcare program, your purchase will support Equine Guelph in its mission to ‘Help Horses for Life’ as proceeds will be invested back into welfare education programs.

This project is funded in part through Growing Forward 2 (GF2), a federal-provincial-territorial initiative. The Agricultural Adaptation Council assists in the delivery of GF2 in Ontario.

Other partners include: Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare; Equine Canada; Farm & Food Care Ontario; Greenhawk Harness & Equestrian Supplies; Omega Alpha Equine; Ontario Equestrian Federation; the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs; Ontario Racing Commission; Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Standardbred Canada.