We are a certified Equi-First Aid USA instructor and we offer Veterinarian designed, hands-on, fun, and supportive training in the courses described below.
Clinics are most often held at outside facilities, so if you would like to consider hosting an event at your barn or facility, please contact us.
This is a one-day hands-on course with horses covering: what your vet needs to know when you call, conditioning a 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 alleviation, spinal health, injury prevention and much more!
You’ll receive a certificate of completion and comprehensive first aid manual.
(Recommended prior to taking the advanced course.)
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, where without human intervention, the horse will not survive.
A wilderness version of the Advanced course, this one-day, highly advanced equine emergency first aid training class is for the adventurous outdoor rider.
With a camping component, this also covers everything including trapped horses, poison, burns and bites, hypo/hyperthermia, tie ups, fractures, and sucking chest wounds.
This course prepares the student to handle the most serious injuries, where without your first response, the horse will not survive.
This is a half-day, fast-paced clinic covering the fundamentals of first aid. Working hands-on with the horses, you will learn to take vital signs, recognize pain in the horse, detect colic, and participate in lots of bandaging in realistic scenarios! All attendees will receive a first aid reference booklet.
A condensed version of our wilderness first aid, this half day course will help you learn how to plan, prepare and react to emergencies while you’re out in the backcountry. From communications to packing, injury to illness, this condensed course is filled with must-know before you go information.
Have a horse-crazy youngster? 4-H group? Sign them up for the 3-hour kids’ program. They’ll learn horse safety and basic first aid in a fun, hands-on environment. There’s even a recipe for horse cookies in their manual, and they’ll all get a frameable certificate of completion! No horse experience necessary! (ages 5-9 recommended)