Horse Boarding Barn Biosecurity
Keeping Horses Safe and Secure from Biological Threats
This site has been developed to assist horse owners and stable managers on how to prevent infectious disease among horses housed together. Like any shared residential arrangement – such as apartment buildings, school dormitories, and hotels – boarding stables are not a closed system. Even with careful protocols to prevent disease, there is an opportunity for horses to be exposed to organisms while off the farm and to potentially expose the other horses upon return.
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About the Project
This project on horse biosecurity was created by Cari Wollman (CVMBS DVM 2023) during a summer internship through Colorado State University Extension focusing on Animal Disaster Preparedness. Cari is interested in all aspects of equine health, so biosecurity was a natural way to combine veterinary medicine with disaster preparedness. She spent her summer extension internship with Dr. Angela Pelzel-McCluskey, Equine Epidemiologist with USDA- APHIS tracking vesicular stomatitis virus and other equine infectious diseases.
It became clear there was a gap in the equine industry for biosecurity guidelines targeted at the horse owners and barn managers of large horse boarding facilities. Cari created these guidelines to provide simple, manageable tasks for horse lovers to keep both horses and their humans healthy and safe.
