Moving to a foreign country with animals can be a daunting experience, especially when you need to have discussions with your vet, farrier or feed merchant.

To help you, we have put together some useful French words, particularly applicable to Autumn/Winter horse care.

• gale de boue or fivre de boue – mud fever
• Fourbure – laminitis
• coliques – colic
• gastérophilose(gastérophile) – bots
• gonfle – swelling
• cestodes – tapeworm
• abcès du pied – abscess in the foot
• arthrite – arthritis
• pourriture de la fourchette – thrush
• maladie de la ligne blanche – white line disease
• blessure – injury/wound
• boîterie/boîteaux – lameness/lame
• pulpe de betterave – beet pulp
• maïs – maize
• foin – hay
• avoine – oat
• granulés –  nuts (as in grass nuts) 
• la balle ronde – round bale
• le ballot de foin – small bale
• paille – straw
• orge – barley
• floconné – mix

Obviously this is only a small selection of horse terms but you can find a useful English – French – English horse vocabulary translation site here.