Livestock preparedness checklist
Make shelter arrangements if you must evacuate your livestock.
Plan your routes and transportation. Take food, water and necessary supplies. Make sure Coggins test and vaccinations are up-to-date. Have some type of identification (leg band, halter tag, tattoo, freeze brand). If you cannot evacuate them, put horses in a fenced (not barbed wire) pasture if they are in a strike zone. Keep current photographs in a safe place.
If the horse is stalled, you will need provisions to keep the stall clean. Make sure coggins tests and vaccinations are up to date. Put some type of identification on horses, such as a leg band, halter tag, tattoo, or freeze brand. Keep photographs of the horse in a safe place.
If you cannot take the horse out of the strike area, do not put it in a stall or barn. Turn the horse out into a pasture that is fenced with woven wire, not barbed or wooden fences. There should be no power lines near this area. Do not allow the hoses to drink water that has been contaminated.
Cattle usually are turned out to pasture because they can survive by herding into low areas for wind or high areas for floods. Other livestock should be transported out of the strike area.
The Sunshine State Horse Council has a database for emergency evacuation and relocation of horses. The address is http://www.SSHC.org/evac.
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