How often do you check on your horses per day?

It really depends on your situation. I'm lucky enough to live on acreage so my horse is in my back yard and I can keep my eye more often. I'm able to give him a good going over atleast once or twice a day. But I have boarded my horse before and relied upon a once a day visit... at the time she was on a few acres and I also depended on the people who lived where I kept her paddocked to feed her in the mornings for me and they had my number to contact me if they thought she was hurt or sick.

I also once kept her paddocked on 100 acres with many horses and a few cows... she had her own stable at night at this place and it was very scary the 1st time I set her free on so much land with so many other horses. I would visit her twice a day there, morning and night and it was similar in the fact that we relied on other horse owners to keep an eye out for each others horses... but it was such a large place with so many animals it did make the chance of something being overlooked more likely.

I know people who have large acreage and they check on their livestock by helicopter. I wonder how you would feel about that Zakiit :) Its hard enough to do a head count from the sky let alone track them down in the bush! How often you check over your horse really comes down to your individual situation... ideally the more often the better.

I check them all out to the point where I go in the pasture and look them up and down probably twice a day. My husband does it once a day. We pretty much do that every time we feed. Our horses live at home by the way.

As far as "checking" on them I have my family or I outside quite a bit and you can see the horses out the front window. So we kind of visually check on them all day long. Plus we have 4 dogs so when they go outside we go with them and check on the horses.

Well about 3 weeks ago at a boarding facility I was just visiting. They bring the horses in the barn for grain in the morning and then they let them back out. Late in the day when I was heading out to see a horse that I was interested in and noticed in one field one of the stallions laying down. I went through the barn and was about to go see the horse I liked, but decided to check on the stallion first in case he was colicing. Well he wasn't colicing, but even worse. He had a gash on the side of his jaw and it was steady dripping blood... he cut an artery. We all did everything to stop the bleeding but he had been bleeding for about 5 hours straight. So we euthanized him, he lost too much blood. This wouldn't of happened if someone would of just gone around to all of the pens each hour of the day to check on the horses. I would check on the horses constantly, you never know what kind of danger a horse can get himself in.

I check my horse once in the morning to remove covers, feed hay ect. (They are on 24/7 turnout).

Then I ride them in the afternoon on a school day or spend most of the day with them on a weekend.

Then I see them at night to feed, put covers on ect.

They are worked 6 days a week so on their off day instead of riding I will give them a really good groom and do some groundwork.

All horses out at grass should be brought in, or visited in the field and have their checks done at least twice a day and have their feet picked out and checked. This sounds like a very lazy way of caring for horses.

Every time I go outside, which is 10 to 12 times a day. I do a quick onceover at feeding time which is 2-3 times a day. I check eyes, legs, look for any lumps, bumps, cuts.

rite now im on vacation with my horse at my grandparents farm so i can go see her as much as possible siince she lives only a couple steps away. but usually she is boarded about 5 miles away up and down these huge hills, so i try to see her at least once a day, im only 14 so i cant drive there, i have to wait untill my parents are off work and im out of school, i tried to ride my bike there once and it took me forever to get there and forever to get back i wish i could see 10 times a day but its imposible

2 times a day is best, once in the morning then again at night. However sometimes more if the hlrse has any problems (lame, pregnant, etc) but then sometimes once a day is fine as in the wild obviously we dont help them x

About 3 times a day morning noon and night. Really Though it should be as often as you can.

I chaeck mine whenever i go out side wich is a lot!

at least morn and night.

my field is in front of 2 cottages up our lane. The owners of the cottages are very good at notifying me if there is a problem.

at work they are checked in a morning and at night.