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Just like in real life, your horse on My Horsez can also get sick or suffer an injury. To vaccinate your horse against diseases or treat it, go to the veterinarian in Applemoor.

Why should my horse be healthy?

If a horse's health is less than 100%, you cannot breed, train or compete with it. Also, the horse cannot be loaned through the loan system. You can get the health up by putting your horse in the paddock. Every four hours that your horse is in the paddock, your horse gains 5% health. For a horse that was still 80% healthy, it therefore takes 16 hours before it is fully healthy again.

How to prevent a disease

Vaccinate! It is important to vaccinate your horse in time so that your horse does not catch a disease. A vaccination expires between 12 and 15 days, so you should vaccinate your horse about every 2 weeks. A vaccination protects your horse against the disease’s tetanus and influenza. If your horse has fallen ill, you not only have to treat your horse for this disease, but also vaccinate it again.

How to prevent a tendon injury

When your horse's hoof quality reaches 0%, your horse has a chance to get a tendon injury. Trim your horses hooves before it reaches 0%, to prevent a tendon injury.

A horse has the chance to catch Influenza when their vaccination is expired. A horse that is not treated loses 10% health every day. So, if you wait 10 days to treat the disease, the health is at 0% and the horse will die of the disease.

You can treat influenza at the Veterinarian in Applemoor. Don't forget to also vaccinate your horse again. Otherwise there is a chance your horse can catch the disease again.

A horse has the chance to catch tetanus when their vaccination is expired. A horse with tetanus loses 20% health per day. That means a horse will die from its disease after 5 days.

Treatment of tetanus costs 500 coins and has a 90% success rate. If the treatment does not succeed, you can have it done again.

You can treat tetanus at the Veterinarian in Applemoor. Don't forget to also vaccinate your horse again. Otherwise there is a chance your horse can catch the disease again.

Your horse can suffer from a tendon injury if the horse's hoof quality reaches 0%. When your horse has a tendon injury, you are not able to compete, train, loan, breed or sell it.

Treating a tendon injury costs 150 coins and always succeeds. You must also take your horse to the farrier to trim the hooves to 100%, otherwise it will suffer another tendon injury straight away.

After the treatment, your horse goes on rest for 3 days. If your horse is on rest, you cannot sell your horse, train it, compete with it or put it in the breeding pasture.