02/17/2024
Hello all!
HD Equine is no longer on a voluntary quarantine.
We are clear of our virus!
The vets told us we had to wait ten days from our last fever to which we did, I also enforced an extra 14 days ontop of that just incase to which the vets agreed was not a bad idea
We have not had any fevers, symptoms, temps nothing in 26 days
There were a number of things we did to make this process easier and get through it as quickly as we did
- Kept all the sick horses (4) inside the barn the rest were moved to temp outdoor board. Yes it was during the coldest weeks of the year and yes it sucked but we made it through
- no one but the owners of the sick horses were allowed entry in the barn during the quarantine period
- Had our own red zone that had the four stalls inside it, it had virkon foot baths at both entrances of it, and the floor was virkoned daily
- seperate clothes and shoes were worn inside the red zone,
- horses inside the red zone were given health checks morning and night and if meds were needed they were given
- we completely gutted the rest of the stalls in the barn, shavings, salt licks etc were thrown out. All stalls were washed down with virkon and then bleach
- hay nets, water buckets, feed tubs, crossties, hooks etc all virkoned and bleached
- we purchased a w**d sprayer and used that filled with virkon and water and sprayed down the walls in the indoor arena. Sprayed all our poles standards etc anything that a horse may have contacted during this period
When we had the horses clear inside and were able to be turned out there stalls were completely gutted. Then we did a virkon scrub, let it sit, virkon scrub let it sit and then bleach and water scrub and then shop vacuumed the water up off the floor to clean the stalls. We also virkoned then bleached the floor in the red zone and vacuumed that up as well to remove all the water.
It was endless weeks of cleaning and double checking our steps but it was totally worth it when we made it through this as quickly as we did. Its very exhausting work but I’m hoping that maybe anything I did here could help someone else get through whatever comes up in their barn one day
If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask!