<Salt and soaking hay Disclaimer -- so that
all of you with fit horses who don’t chew salt shouldn’t worry>
I was naughty and didn’t have a salt
block in my pasture for a little while. We have moved to a new house and
cleared trees, but the horses are living in stumpville with very little pasture.
So they only get what I give them, and whatever hardy grasses have popped up since
spring. They’re probably a bit bored as well, and a new set of salt
blocks are exciting stuff.
I guess I should also add that if it were
just my endurance horse, I probably wouldn’t do a thing different in the
heat – free choice hay, water, salt, and a nice beet pulp/grain mash for
dinner. He’s tough, and sensible enough to eat and drink when he needs
to. But I have a “delicate flower” that colicked once when the
weather changed, a pasture potato that I’m just starting to work, and a
35 year old pony that I worry about….
