10 Ways To Keep Your Horses Hydrated - Free Pets to Good Home

When temperatures have gone thru the ceiling, you would like to very carefully watch the water intake of your horses. They might not be drinking enough water, and when they do that, they?re prime candidates for all of the illnesses stemming from dehydration.

While dehydration troubles horses most in the summer, it is actually common at any time. The general suspect is hot and humid weather, but it?s not the sole cause. An idle horse in a hot stall with poor ventilation can fall prey to dehydration. Even in extreme chilly weather conditions, a horse can get dehydrated if the water in his bucket freezes and he has no alternative supply nearby.

Here are some ways of getting your pony to maintain a good level of water intake.

1. Obviously, the 1st need to be met is to give your horse access to enough water. Even idle horses drink no less than 10 gallons a day, while active ones can put away 25 gallons when the weather is hot.

2. Feed your horse only completely clean water, and ensure it is easily accessed. Your horse will be no more inclined to drink water from buckets that are tipped over, or are leaky or cruddy than you?d be.

3. Give hay a good soaking in water before feeding so that the horse absorbs more water. A single flake of hay can suck up between 1 and 2 gallons. When you feed totally soaked hay to your pony, you?ll be favourably impacting his intake of fluids.

4. Feed your horse with food rich in water content like fresh grass, weak bran mash and watermelon, apples and carrots.

5. Keep a clean block of salt within easy reach of your pony.

6. Stir a small spoon of salt into some applesauce (2 tablespoons) and shoot the mixture with a deworming tube or a syringe into your horse?s mouth. The mix will excite thirst in your horse.

7. If you can, squirt a spoon of corn syrup right into your horse?s mouth. By coating her tongue, the syrup will make your pony drink more water.

8. Keep your horse?s water from freezing. If the water gets too cold, adding some hot water.

9. Horses aren?t too keen on water with a ?different? flavour. If you?re travelling, carry sufficient home water with you if you can do so. If you can?t, begin adding some apple juice, cider vinegar or sugar beet doused water to your horse?s water beginning some days before the travel. By continuing to add one of these items to water while on the road, you?ll be in a position to hide any ?new? flavours.

10. Take your pony out for regular rides. Even a comparatively fast walk of 15 minutes, a short ride stimulates thirst. But if your pony is recovering from a spell of dehydration, get your vet?s approval before you take her out for a ride.

You will not cause colic in your pony by exercising her immediately after she?s had some water. Horse stomachs push water through very fast.

Horses are Heather Tomspassion and she enjoys sharing her extensive knowledge through her 100s of articles with other horse lovers http://horsehorses.net/

Source: http://siscer.net/articles/pets/10-ways-to-keep-your-horses-hydrated/

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