30-40 beats per minute (bpm).
This measures the rate and strength of your horse's heartbeat. Normally, a resting horse has a pulse of 38 to 40 beats per minute. When exercising, a horse's maximum heart rate can exceed 180 beats per minute. However, in resting horses, a heart rate over 80 can be a sign of a serious problem. If a calm horse has a pulse that is consistently over 60, it can also be a problem. Things that can increase the horse's heart rate include exercise, fear, pain, stress, and excitement. Y our horse’s digital pulse offers important clues to hoof health. How fast the heart beats is not the main information you are looking for with the digital pulse. Of course the heart rate is important, and in the resting horse a normal pulse is 30-40 beats per minute. But when you take a digital pulse, the information you gather comes from how the pulse feels. Most horses with laminitis will have a bounding digital pulse and this can be one of the best ways to monitor if a horse has laminitis (or another problem in the foot e.g. an abscess or bruising) or is at risk of developing laminitis. A normal resting horse has a heart rate of 38-40 beats per minute, foals (70-120 bpm), yearlings (45-60 bpm) and 2 year olds (40-50 bpm). Maximum heart rates can exceed 180 beats per minute, but a rate above 80 should be considered serious in most non-exercising horses. 2. PULSE The pulse rate of an adult horse at rest averages 30-40 beats per minute (bpm). A pulse rate of 50 or higher in an adult horse at rest may mean the horse is in physical distress. The average pulse rates for young horses are as follows: Foals (70-120 bpm), Yearlings (45-60 bpm), 2yr. olds (40-50 bpm).
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