Health reminders — worming, vaccinations & farrier

Worming, vaccinations and the farrier all run on a cycle: do it, then do it again in so many weeks. Nose keeps that cycle for you. You record when it was last done and how often it repeats — from then on, everyone responsible for the horse gets told before the next one is due, and told again if the date slips past. You can also simply plan a date — the farrier is booked for the 3rd — and the reminders follow that date instead.

Nobody has to remember. Nobody has to check a wall calendar.

Setting one up

On the horse's Care tab, add a health routine. Each one needs three things:

• What — worming, vaccination, or farrier.
• How often — the interval in days. It comes pre-filled with the usual figure (90 for quarterly worming, 365 for an annual booster, 42 for a six-week shoeing cycle), so for most yards you can leave it alone. Change it to whatever you and your vet actually do.
• When it was last done — the anchor the next date is counted from.

That last one matters most. Without a last-done date there is nothing to count from, so the routine stays silent — it won't remind anyone and it won't appear in the dues list. The card flags it, so if a routine looks suspiciously quiet, that's the first thing to check.

When the reminders go out

How much notice you get depends on how far apart the dates are, not on the type of job. A six-week shoeing cycle doesn't need two months' warning; an annual booster does, because you have to get into a vet's diary.

With the usual yard settings that means: a six-week farrier cycle gets one reminder a week before; quarterly worming gets two weeks and one week; an annual vaccination gets two months, one month and one week.

The gap is measured from one occurrence to the next — for a routine, that is simply its interval. For a date you planned on a horse that has never had that job recorded, it is measured from the day you planned it: book something three days out and there is no room left for a warning, so you'll only hear about it if the date passes.

If the date passes and nobody has recorded the routine, all three are chased twice more: 3 days late, then 7 days late.

Each of those is sent once. You won't get the same message twice, and the two "before" reminders won't both land on the same day.

If a routine is set up late — say you add a farrier cycle four days before it's due — you still get one timely reminder rather than a burst of overdue ones for a date nobody knew about.

Follow-ups stop after 30 days. Past a month, an unrecorded routine isn't something another email will fix; it stays visible on the care board until someone deals with it.

A planned date beats the calculation

A routine's next date is arithmetic: last done, plus the interval. But real yards book real dates — the farrier is coming on the 3rd whatever the arithmetic says. Record that as a planned health event (health events) and the reminders follow the date you actually agreed.

• A horse with a plan and no routine is reminded too. Previously the only way to hear anything was to configure a cycle first; now a planned date is enough on its own.
• A horse with both is reminded about the plan, not about the calculation. Move the date and the reminders re-arm for the new one — including, if the new date is already inside a reminder window, straight away.
• Only worming, vaccinations and the farrier are reminded. Vet, dentist, physio and breeding events are recorded and kept in the horse's health history, but Nose sends no reminder for them — those jobs have no typical cycle to count from. The form says so when you pick one, so you're never left expecting a message that isn't coming.

Who gets told

Everyone actually responsible for the horse:

• The payer on an active boarding contract.
• Every owner and lessee linked to the horse who has a Nose account. If you share a horse, you all hear about its worming — health isn't kept to whoever settles the invoice.
• The stable's admins, for horses the stable itself owns, and for any horse with nobody else to tell. School horses are never left without a reminder.

Parents managing a child's account receive their copies too.

How they arrive

By email and, if you've allowed notifications on your phone or browser, as a push notification. Each message names the horse, the routine and the date, and links straight to the right place — the care board for stable staff, your own horse page for owners.

Messages go out at a civil hour: between 9am and 9pm in the stable's own timezone, never in the middle of the night.

Marking one done

When the job is done, open the horse's Care tab (or the Health view on the Boarding page — the health register) and mark the routine done. Nose moves the last-done date forward, works out the next date from your interval, and the whole reminder cycle re-arms for it automatically. There's nothing to reset.

Recording a done health event does the same thing — it moves the routine's last-done date as well as keeping the record of what was actually given. You never have to do both.

Expiring documents

The same system watches horse documents that carry an expiry date — passports, vaccination certificates, insurance. Those get one reminder 30 days before they expire, because renewing paperwork takes real-world time. Extending a document's validity re-arms it, so you get a fresh reminder for the new date.

Turning them off

Each person controls their own. In your account's notification settings, the Boarding — care & services switch covers health reminders. Turning it off silences your copy only — it doesn't stop anyone else being reminded, and it doesn't stop the horse appearing on the stable's care board.

Good to know

• Health reminders need the stable's boarding module switched on.
• A routine with no last-done date and nothing planned never reminds anyone. It's the single most common reason a reminder "didn't arrive" — and planning the next date is now a second way to fix it.
• The health register (the Health view on the Boarding page) always shows the full picture — every horse of that kind, with or without a date — the reminders are a nudge, not the record.
• Changing an interval takes effect from the next date onward; it doesn't re-send reminders for dates already passed.

Related

• Your horse's board (owner portal)
• For the stable: plans, contracts & charges
• Finances — where a boarder's vet visit shows up once it's billed to the owner.