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Re: [RC] Protecting Horses - merrybenBecky Hart's first endurance horse Nusan (BooBoo) used to take a mouthful of hay and drop it in his water bucket and swish it around before eating it. He would do that at every ride and at horse shows when tied to the trailer...........mb
-----Original Message----- From: donhuston@xxxxxxx To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:02 AM Subject: Re: [RC] Protecting Horses
Hello Dyane,
Here is a possible simple analogy. When I eat a bowl of cold cereal I want it covered in milk but the cereal still crisp. If it sits around and gets completely soggy it tastes yucky. If I toss a flake of hay on the ground and dump a gallon or so of water on it my horse will eat most of it. Every time I have dunked a flake in a barrel of water for a few minutes to get it really wet my horse eats very little of it. It looks really soggy and maybe it makes it taste yucky?? So now I just pour some water on the flake and let the excess run thru it into the ground. Some water is better than none. Don Huston At 08:58 AM 7/26/2006 Wednesday, you wrote: >Does anyone have suggestions for getting horses to accept having their hay >wetted down? So far, mine hate it. > >Dyane Smith =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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