EquiFirstAid Courses
Proactive Essential Knowledge Every Horse Owner Can Use To Become Your Horse's First Responder Until Veterinary Help Arrives
For All First Aid Courses: You'll learn through a combination of PowerPoint, video and real-life scenarios how to handle even the most extreme emergency with confidence and skill. No experience is necessary and you'll never be put 'on the spot'... just tactile learning with horses in a supportive and fun environment. From the newbie to the most seasoned horse person... everyone will learn something new! (Eligible for equine insurance discounts, EAGALA credits, PATH credits, IAABC credits, and more)
2024 Events
We are looking for Host Facilities & organizations that would benefit from our Equine Emergency First Aid Course. Fill out the "Interested in Attending or Hosting a Clinic" Form this page & I'll be in touch!
June 2, 2024 Equine Health & Emergency First Aid
Sponsored by Barre Riding & Driving Club - Sterling, MA
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Course Descriptions
Learn how to provide emergency treatment until your vet arrives, conditioning your horse to accept treatment, taking proper vital signs, dealing with lacerations, punctures, colic, choke, collapse, casting, shock, hoof issues, recognizing pain in the horse, sources of pain and so much more!
Offered as a one day course or as a 2-part hybrid.
In the hybrid course you get to do Part 1 from the comfort of your home on Zoom - even in your jammies! Part 2 will be at the host farm to wrap up theory and then put what you've learned to practical use with horses!
Advanced Equine First Aid*
Plan, prepare, react to any emergency! Join us for a one-day highly advanced equine emergency first aid course and learn what to do in more extreme situations!
This course covers everything from assessing the condition of a horse, trapped horses, poison, burns, bites, hypo/hyperthermia, tie ups, fractures, sucking chest wounds and more. It prepares the student to handle the most serious injuries
* Equine Health & Emergency First Aid is a prerequisite
Advanced Equine First Aid - Wilderness Edition*
A wilderness version of the Advanced course, this one-day, highly advanced equine emergency first aid training class is for the adventurous outdoor rider.
Plan, prepare, react to any emergency! Join us for a one-day highly advanced equine emergency first aid course and learn what to do in more extreme situations out on the trail or in wilderness situations!
This course covers everything from assessing the condition of a horse, trapped horses, poison, burns, bites, hypo/hyperthermia, tie ups, fractures, sucking chest wounds and more. It prepares the student to handle the most serious injuries
* Equine Health & Emergency First Aid is a prerequisite
Where We've Been
Morning Glory Farm, Brentwood, NH
Sponsored by Gaited Horses of New England
Breezy Knoll Farm, Pepperell, MA
Lawrence Barn, Hosted by Hollis Area Equestrians