There is always something to attend to around your horses, whether it’s taking care of them directly when not in equestrian training or doing chores indirectly related to them. Often the time it needs to finish everything is ludicrous. This is exacerbated by any horses with special needs or particular conditions. Sometimes you won’t even have sufficient time to take out a few horses for pony riding just for thrills. All equestrian training and equine-related chores without pure pony riding fun isn’t good—for you or your horses. So here are a few practical tips that could help you save time on your pony chores.
Stopping water sloshing… You might or might not have a water source near particular horses. Some studs or mares could have characters that cause you to house them in separate stalls in a particular season so they eat and put on better weight. This implies they’d be a distance from the regular place where water would be, and you’d have to haul buckets of it to them. Having the water slosh all over the place is going to make this additional chore more frustrating. So put a small board or smaller bucket upside down on top of the water you’re halling. It’s a simple trick; breaking the water’s surface tension and keeping a lot of it from sloshing out.
Beet pulp soaking… Beet pulp simply has to be soaked before being fed to your horses. Otherwise you risk choking and a variety of other health risks. But this process is frequently tiresome and time-intensive, especially in chilly weather. Compared with pellets though, beet pulp soaks quicker, is crunchier to a horse’s palate, and would be better able to satisfy a horse’s natural inkling to long-stem foliage fodder, so as a part of your horses feed, it’s indispensable. But the chore it comprises can be a discomfort. To soak the stuff faster, bring it within the house and soak it in hot water rather than cold. You can also proceed soaking it in cold water in the evening and simply add warm water into the mix in the morning before feeding it to your horses. Warm beet pulp warms a horse’s physique well in shivering cold mornings.
Providing supplements while permitting free choice on feed… Letting your horses loose on a free-choice environment of feed is both fun and a great way to emulate what horses do in nature. The difficulty lies in how you are going to give each horse their supplement dose in sufficient amounts when in such a setup. One way is to train all your horses to accept syringe administration of supplements. This way you can personally syringe-feed particular supplements to specific horses before the free for all begins.
Sometimes a home made recipe of whole food supplements work fine for many horses , but for those with conditions or special needs, more than the usual amount might be obligatory, or an extra ingredient should be added into the mix. What’s great about this method is that each pony gets his or her due supplements and it all fits tidily (if you do it properly) into a syringe.
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