An excerpt from The Ultimate Guide for Horses in Need, published by Horse Nation on January 20, 2022, reprinted there with permission from Trafalgar Square Books. Training Appropriately for Your Horse’s BCS by Stacie G. Boswell, DVM, DACVS — excerpted from The Ultimate Guide for Horses in Need (Trafalgar Square Books, 2020) The excerpt lays […]
On November 24, 2021, Stacie joined Dr. Ernie Ward and Beckie Mossor, RVT, on the Veterinary Viewfinder podcast (episode 260), a show for veterinary professionals. The conversation covered “horses in transition,” the roughly 150,000 horses that become unwanted in the United States each year, and the emotional load this work places on equine practitioners. Veterinary […]
In July 2021, Horse Canada, Canada’s national horse magazine, published an excerpt from The Ultimate Guide for Horses in Need in its Equine Welfare section. The excerpt covers the veterinary examination every newly acquired rescue horse should receive: what the first visit establishes medically and legally, body condition scoring, fecal evaluation, the Coggins test, blood […]
Ahead of the 2021 Fourth of July, Stacie wrote a short piece for the Hardaway Veterinary Hospital blog on horses and fireworks – framed around fear, anxiety, and stress (FAS), the same concepts at the heart of her Fear Free equine work. The post is still live on Hardaway’s site. Your Horse and Fireworks By […]
On June 17, 2021, the United Horse Coalition — the alliance of equine organizations under the American Horse Council focused on horses at risk or in transition — held its annual meeting virtually during the AHC’s 2021 conference. Stacie was the featured speaker, presenting “Responsible Ownership: Things You Need to Know Before Acquiring Your Next […]
On June 9, 2021, Wendy Murdoch — creator of the SURE FOOT® Equine Stability Program — welcomed Stacie to her “Webinars With Wendy” series (webinar No. 214) for a 53-minute conversation about Fear Free veterinary care, recorded the month after the Fear Free Equine Veterinary Certification Program launched. The conversation ranges from the origins of […]
From 2020 into 2022, Stacie was a regular contributing writer for Montana Horses, a free print magazine published every six to eight weeks by Montana Horses, Inc. of Manhattan, Montana, and distributed at horse-friendly businesses around the state. In the June 2021 Artisan Issue she wrote a full-page column on cribbing: what the behavior actually […]
Stacie’s second health column in the Breeders 2021 issue of Montana Horses magazine walks breeders through a normal foaling: predicting when a mare will deliver, the three stages of parturition, and the critical timeline for a newborn foal. The magazine has since ceased publication and its online archive is gone, so the column is reproduced […]
In the Breeders 2021 issue of Montana Horses magazine, Stacie contributed two health columns. This one takes on the hardest subject in horse ownership: how to think about euthanasia before a crisis forces the decision. It covers the AAEP criteria, the practical realities specific to Montana winters, methods, aftercare options in southwest Montana, costs, and […]
Stacie’s January 2021 health column for Montana Horses magazine picks up where her December column on winter physiology left off: a horse needs adequate fat coverage to stay warm, and under a thick winter coat that fat can be hard to see. The column teaches the two practical tools for monitoring a horse’s weight at […]