Emily Hutton is the horsewoman behind The Clever Cowgirl, a YouTube channel with more than 150,000 subscribers that documents her work giving auction and rescue horses a soft landing — first in Montana’s Gallatin Valley, now in Colorado. In December 2024 she published a video chronicling the first ten days of refeeding a starved auction […]
By fall 2023, Equine Info Exchange had published “Disaster Preparedness,” an excerpt from Stacie’s book The Ultimate Guide for Horses in Need, reprinted with permission from Trafalgar Square Books. The excerpt covers what it actually takes to get horses out ahead of a fire, flood, or other disaster — knowing your local risks, planning evacuation […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
On February 10, 2021, the Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association (HSVMA) presented a continuing education webinar, “Best Practices for Rescue Horses: Horses in Transition,” with Dr. Stacie Boswell as the sole presenter. The webinar was approved for 1.5 hours of RACE CE credit in the medical category for both veterinarians and veterinary technicians, and remains […]
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 […]
A day-in-the-life piece Stacie wrote for the Trafalgar Square Books blog, published December 1, 2020, during the first COVID year. Early Morning Writing, COVID Vetting, and a Vomiting Princess: 24 Hours with Dr. Stacie Boswell by Stacie G. Boswell, DVM, DACVS — originally published on the Trafalgar Square Books blog, December 1, 2020 5:00 am […]