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Re: [RC] [RC] Adios Research - Heidi Smith


  Minor point.But it's documented too that horses won't drink as much COLD
water  as they will warm (when the weather turns  cold).We have a 'deicer
'
in our trough as we had 2 older horses and heard many older horses don't
drink enough water when it is cold leading to more colics ect. When I
'forget" to turn the deicer off or for some reason didn't have it in, the
water consumption I noticed in my small herd ,drops by about a 1/3.
Laurie

Actually, that's a very valid point.  One of the little "tips" that we learn
early on riding the early spring and late fall rides here in the "frozen
nawth" is to put our water in dark buckets (absorb that radiant heat!) and
figure out the night before where the morning sun will hit so that we can
leave the buckets with the ice on top out where they will be the warmest
when we get into camp.  (And if all else fails, HEAT some and add it!)  Had
ice on our water buckets at Old Selam this past weekend and we were parked
in a fairly shady area--so really made sure that our boys tanked up over in
the PR area where the tank was out in the open and had had an opportunity to
get some of the chill off.

Heidi


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Re: [RC] [RC] Adios Research, Laurie Durgin