What the logbook looks like

Frieda’s logbook with everything in it, Lotte’s diary and the plan for the yard – just as it comes out of the printer: A4 for a ring binder, from October 2026.

Cover: the photo of a chestnut with a blaze, on it a white panel with ‘Frieda’, ‘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 two people: cough values circled, medication and meals ticked, temperatures, notes and initials on every day — The same week, filled in by Julia and the girl who shares her: on Thursday 38.0 °C and a runny nose, on Friday the vet.

The ‘Initials’ page: at the top the cough scale from 0 to 4, below it three names with their initials — At the front the scale, and who makes entries under which initials – by hand, because the people who help change.

The filled-in feeding plan: valid from 1 Oct 2026, hay, oats, minerals and carrots by meal — The feeding plan with ‘valid from’, twice on the page in case it changes. The meals are called whatever you like.

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, a 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 name is at the top of every page.

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The diary

Lotte’s diary has only days and lines, and note pages at the back instead of the tables. You decide what goes in: what you did together, how it went, what the riding instructor said. If you like, add a mood from ‘awful’ to ‘great’.

Cover: the photo of a skewbald pony with a pale mane, on it a white panel with ‘Lotte’, ‘Diary’, ‘2027’ — The diary’s cover – the same panel, a different word.

The first week in the diary, filled in by hand: a new head collar for Christmas, a walk in the snow, New Year’s Eve, a New Year’s Day hack and a riding lesson with canter — Lotte’s first week: from the new head collar to the riding lesson with canter.

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For the yard

Every horse gets its own logbook. Who made the entry is there as initials on every day; who should come is at the front in the ‘Who comes when’ plan. For the next horse you open a finished logbook in your account, change the name and photo and create it – everything else stays as it was.

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.

Three years of logbook freeThe first 50 people to create an account through this site get 36 months of logbook free – three years for one animal or one year for three.

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