Re: RC: Re: Sponging from the water tank

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

At 12:11 PM 4/19/00 -0500, Darolyn wrote:
> Consider the action of using a scoop, &
> the water cascading off the horse & back into the tank with all those
> same contaminants.  

Just to play the devil's advocate here, how does the water coming off the
horse get into the water trough unless the horse is standing in the
trough?  I guess if by "tank" you mean what a lot of
people call "pond" (although I really am learning to call a
cattle water pond a tank), then it's possible.  But earlier in this
e-conversation, the discussion was about water that's trucked in, in
troughs.  That water won't get contaminated by scoops, but could by
sponges.  

I have found that if a bunch of horses go into a tank (pond) the water is
so muddy you could never tell if every single rider in the race has
rinsed their sponges, their horse blankets & all their dirty
socks  in it, anyway.  Lif

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