This week’s letter is O. If you missed last week’s Friday Feature, take a look at Equine Nursing.

Many horse related businesses need someone to handle the office administration side of things.  This work could be full or part time and may even be done with the use of an internet connection, from your own home.  Often it is located at the equine premises, however.

Tasks may include:

• keeping horse records
• organising pays and tax taken out
• paying super for employees
• ordering supplies in relation to office, horse feed or even medications
• responding to client queries
• filling in mare returns (for a stud operation)
• dealing with breeding, racing or leasing contracts
• sending clients bills
• creating advertising materials or updating a business website and email list
• answering phones and emails
• entering horses for competitions/races

Office administration work isn’t specific to the horse industry.  However, someone with a working knowledge of horses and a particular equine industry (eg performance, trail rides, breeding, racing, etc) as well as office administration experience would bode well for a working farm who needs paperwork kept in order.

It may also be a job that allows you to be indoors and not work weekends; or work mornings in the office and then afternoons out with the horses.

I don’t have particular posts on Equus-Blog that explore different administration jobs, but can assure you that in every equine related business I’ve worked, there was someone to help out with the administration side of things!

“Grooming: the process by which the dirt on the horse is transferred to the groom.” – Author unknown

This week’s letter is N. If you missed last week’s Friday Feature, take a look at Ministries (Equine).

An equine nurse is someone who may be found working in a veterinary practice or at a large racing stable or horse breeding property.  They will be involved in many aspects of horse care as discussed below and may be required to work day hours or even night shifts.  They may also be required to attend a client’s property with a veterinarian if called out for a job.

Tasks may include:

• administering medications
• applying bandages
• caring for wounds
• looking after sick/injured horses
• nursing young foals
• administering injections
• focusing on neonatal care (young foals)
• taking vital signs
• restraining horses for the veterinarian

The job can be heartbreaking at times when horses don’t respond to treatment; but it can also be incredibly rewarding.  It will require a lot of physical work as well as mental capacity.  If you’re interested in looking into this further, consider the following posts:

• Equine Nurse and Stud Hand Videos
• If the Door’s Closed
• Profile On: Morgan Bailey – Equicare
• VET for Vet

“Care, and not fine stables, makes a good horse.” – Danish Proverb