Horses are like any living creature they need love, food,
water, shelter, and proper care survive. Are you providing the necessary needs
to your horse? Horses need to have the proper amounts of grain and roughage a
day so they do colic. The roughage needs to be clean hay or grass because bad
hay can cause a horse to colic. Colic is when a horse basically gets a belly
ache. However, the horse tends to lay down and tries to roll constantly. This
can cause the horses intestines to become twisted and possible death if the
colic is not treated properly. Always try to get the horse up and walking
around and get a vet to give the horse the proper medication. Normally a pain
relaxer such as ban amine works great.
Also providing some type of shelter can help decrease
chances of fungus, sunburn, and illness. A shelter during the winter and rainy
months will help prevent rain rot and illness. While a shelter during the
summertime will provide shade so a light colored horse will not become
sunburnt. Which can be very painful for a horse. Make sure that the horse has a clean source of
water. You don’t want algae or any other critters swimming in the water because
this can increase their chance of worms and internal pests. With this known it
is also important to make sure you are giving routine vaccinations and wormers
to protect your horses from spreading diseases that may be going around such as
West Nile.
I hope that this quick bit of horse care tips helps you in establishing
a healthy horse!
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