With winter and flu season approaching, you’re ready to do everything in your power to reduce your chances of catching a cold, but how do you rate in keeping your horses safe from infectious disease?

See how you score. Calculate your horse farm’s risks with Equine Guelph’s new and improved Equine Biosecurity Risk Calculator, a tool designed for horse owners to generate a report that grades them on their biosecurity management practices on their farms.

Live and online now at equineguelph.ca (click 'Biosecurity Risk Calculator'), the interactive tool is an educational resource of Equine Guelph (University of Guelph) developed in collaboration with Colorado State University.

The online resource helps horse owners calculate the biosecurity risk on their farms and also provides educational feedback on ways to decrease the risk of infectious disease. It takes about 10 minutes to answer 42 questions in 10 categories about their farms and rates their individual biosecurity risks in each category. Possible scores include: 'green' for 'go' (keep doing what you’re doing), 'yellow' for 'caution' (consider improvements) and 'red' for 'stop' (reassess to reduce serious risk).

(With files from Equine Guelph)