What the logbook looks like

The cover, an empty week, the same week after seven days in the stable, the plans at the front and the tables at the back – just as it comes out of the printer. A4 for a ring binder, from October 2026.

Cover: the photo of a chestnut looking out of the box window, with a white panel reading ‘Balou’, ‘Logbook’, ‘2026/27’
The cover: name and period, with or without a photo. With a photo, the name sits on a white panel – at the top, in the middle or at the bottom.
Empty week spread: on the left notes for the week and Monday to Wednesday, on the right Thursday to Sunday
An empty week: top left notes for the week, then Monday to Wednesday; on the right Thursday to Sunday.
The same week filled in by three people: cough scores circled, medication and meals ticked, temperatures, notes and initials on every day
The same week, filled in by three people: 38.1 °C and nasal discharge on Thursday, the vet’s visit on Friday.
The ‘Initials’ page: the cough scale from 0 to 4 at the top, four names with their initials below
The cough scale, and who makes entries under which initials – by hand, because the people who help in the stable change.
The ‘Who comes when’ page for October and November, with initials for morning, afternoon and evening
Who comes when: every day with morning, afternoon and evening, two months per page.
The feeding plan: valid from 1 Oct 2026, hay, oats, minerals and carrots by meal, above them the regular medication
The feeding plan with ‘valid from’, twice on the page in case the plan changes. Regular medication is already printed on it.
The ‘Worming / vaccination’ table with three entries: date, product, next due
At the back the tables for the vet, the farrier, worming and vaccination, and weight.

How a day is laid out

Every day starts with a line: the date, the cough scale from 0 to 4 and three boxes – rest, eating, work. Below it the medication with dose and morning, midday, evening, next to it the temperature, then the meals to tick off and lines for everything else. On the far right there is a box for initials: whoever made the entry writes theirs in.

The scale doesn’t have to be about coughing – lameness, itching, free faecal water: you name it yourself, and the boxes and meals too. Leave out what you don’t need: the medication, the temperature, the feed line, the plans.

The logbook runs from the month you choose, for three, six or twelve months; half a year fits the stabling season from October to March. The horse’s name is at the top of every page.

A year for three horses, freeThe first 20 people to create an account through this site get a full year of logbook for three horses free – or three years for one.

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