Horse Care Advice – Keeping Your Horse Cool

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It’s more than forty degrees out in the cooking sunshine and you can’t even move outdoors without feeling like you have been robbed of every single ounce of power you ever had. If you feel like this, imagine how your horse feels. Virtually identical. If you happen to be hot, they will be too.
What will you be able to do to further cool a horse down?
Always have ample fresh, clean, cool water on hand. It is very hard for them in heat like that to go too long with no drink. It’s usually a good idea not to exercise them too hard in high heat and high humidity levels. It is really hard work for their systems. Also, if you do work them, be Awfully sensitive about letting them drink when you are completed. Only let them have little quantities and spread those quantities out over a time period. If you’re working them slow and they aren’t perspiring and heaving, give him access to water a minimum of each 30 minutes.
You may believe this seems funny, but consider it. Do not place your water dish out in the open sunlight. Why? The water contained could possibly get so hot it may possibly scald your horses mouth. Put the dish or pail in the shadows.
Another cooling down tip, your horse loves cool bathing – not freezing – but cool spray from the garden hose over their chest, back and legs. Some are concerned about water on their heads, so avoid that area. The very first thing it usually goes about doing after having been sprayed is roll in the dust and build themselves a pleasant bug screen layer on their coats. The bugs are ferocious in warmer conditions. If you do not possess a garden hose that has a spray nozzle, then sponge his head and face off using cooler water.
Regardless of whether you use a salt block outside, it won’t be sufficient for all those viciously warm days. You’ll need to have extra salt on hand. All you have to do is put in additional table salt to your horses feed or hay. He’ll eat what he requires. Most equines sweat about enough to require four oz of salt on a daily basis in hot weather conditions.
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