Re: RC: Mud baths...

[Rick Crites <rdcrites@altavista.com>]

Alot of times horses will roll in the mud to keep the flies from biting them so bad.  Especially if the little black deer flies are bad.  Maybe the mud acts as a deterent to the flies for about 3 hours and then she rolls again to again reapply her "natural fly spray.

Nan Crites

On Wed, 24 May 2000, "robert and carla lawson" wrote:

> 
> Okay my once gray horse is now red with mud. She has made a mud hole in my 
> new pasture. I am not sure how it got there. Must have been over night but I 
> can say I DID NOT leave the water on. However with 2 days of evening 
> thunderstorms..... but my curiosity wonders why does she do it and not 
> Haley.
> She goes from Mud hole to grass to mudhole to roll about every 3 hours. 
> there is ample grass to eat. and much to roam yet they are standing in this 
> mudhole..I remember buying horses. Nice arab horses.. not a pig...
> More good news..
> 150lbs of horse feed gone... it got the lid knocked off and it got rained 
> in....ahhh the joys of not haveing a garage!!!!
> Carla (off to find a brick wall to beat my head upon)
> Ansata "oink"
> Haley (got any more of that slop?)
> Rob (did we get a new horse?)
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