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Re: [RC] [RC] [RC] Horse won't drink water when offered - Laurie Durgin

Well Rascal used to wait to drink till we got home(ride loops here to house). Even when hot, one Day it was really hot and he drank!from the stream, then he went down to roll, right after I'd laughed at my husbands horse for doing that the week before. I knew water now makes no difference when I saw him drink from the stream of runoff/underground spring coming up from our treepit.Double yuuuch ,and the clean water trough was 10 feet away. Guess some horses like "junkwater".






From: "Heidi Smith" <heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Shelley Kerr" <skerr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,<ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RC]   [RC] Horse won't drink water when offered
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 09:06:17 -0700

>I've had picky drinkers in the past. If they really weren't that thirsty they wouldn't drink out of creeks, strange buckets, strange water. Guess it smells different. Anyways, when they were thirsty they would drink, even from a mud puddle. They're not that dumb and stubborn. When they need water, they will drink.
Shelley

Unfortunately, the picky ones can get pretty darn dehydrated before they will drink, and that can be much to their detriment. I agree with the original poster that if she has a picky drinker, she should make some effort to teach the horse to drink before getting him into a situation where the dehydration could cause him problems.

Heidi


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