Taking good care of your horse's tack will keep it safe and useable for years.

Here are some tips from industry experts on washing and thoroughly drying your horse blankets.

Stable owners recommend that you run your business from passion, but make sure to use good business sense and community outreach.

Understand what you want your digital communications to do for you, whether it is to keep current clients up-to-date on happenings at the facility or to gain new business.

Whether you focus on one breed or discipline, or like a mix at your facility, keeping horses healthy and clients happy is paramount to your business.

You need to decide what your focus is for your equine boarding and/or training facility.

Prepare the area where your horses will winter if you keep them penned off of your pastures.

Give tasks to working students that help you and prepare them for future horse facility responsibilities.

Sometimes it’s difficult to prevent spread of contagious diseases, but it helps to thoroughly disinfect the stall where a sick horse has been before using it again for any other horse.

Jenny Wilkinson, DVM, of the University of Vermont, said that horse owners need to know rain rot is contagious. “People originally thought it was caused by a fungus that lived in the soil. Research showed it is caused by bacteria that live on the skin. Horses may carry it and never develop a problem, but other horses they come into contact with might be susceptible to infection.