Caring For Your Horse in the Hot Weather

It is over forty degrees in the baking sunshine and you can’t even walk outside without feeling like you’ve been robbed of every single bit of power you ever had. If you feel like this, consider just how your horse feels.  Just about identical.  If you are hot, they will be too.

What are you able to do to help cool it down?

Permanently have plenty of clean, cool, fresh water on hand.  It is really difficult for them in high temperature like that to go too long with no water.   It’s normal a good idea not to exercise them too hard in high temperature and high humidity levels.  It’s really hard work on their bodies.  And if you need to work them, be Exceptionally careful about letting them drink when you’re completed.  Only let them have small amounts and spread those amounts out over a time frame.  If you’re working them slowly and they are not sweating and heaving, provide him access to water at least each thirty minutes.

You might think this sounds funny, but consider it.  Do not place your water container out in the open sun.  Why is this?  Because the water in it could get so hot it may possibly blister your horses lips.  Lay the container or pail in the shadows.

One more cool down tip, a horse loves cool bathing – not arctic cold – but cool water spray from the garden hose over their back, legs and chest.  Occasionally, some horses are concerned about water on their heads, so keep away from that area.  The first thing a horse usually goes about doing after having been bathed is roll in the mud and create themselves an effective insect screen outside layer on their coats.  The insects are ferocious in hot conditions.  If you don’t own a garden hose which has a spray end piece, then sponge his head and face off with cool water.

Even if you have a block of salt outside, it isn’t adequate for all those harshly warm days.  You need to have extra salt available.  All you need to do is add some table salt to your horses hay or feed.  He will eat what he wants.  The majority of horses sweat about enough to want four ounces of salt each day in warmer weather conditions.

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