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RE: [RC] re: seeking advise -horses wont drink from tank anymore - Jim HollandBuild a board box around a tank, leaving holes that you can drop buckets into up to their lips. Eventually, remove the buckets, leaving holes in the board top that "appear" to be buckets, but are actually "openings" into the tank. Gradually remove the boards from the top one at a time until they are drinking out of the tank with the frame boards around it. Tear down the board frame one board at a time until only the tank remains. If you care about your horses welfare, NEVER heat metal tanks, with floaters or any other heater. Use the plastic Rubbermaid tanks, with a drainplug heater and a GFCI on the plug or breaker box. BE SURE YOUR BREAKER BOX IS GROUNDED! IF IT IS NOT, THE GFCI WILL NOT WORK! If you need to run the cord through an area where the horses can reach it, simply buy a section of BIG (2 inch or larger...needs to be heavy) PVC pipe, cut to appropriate size, and lay it on the ground and route the cord through that until you get outside the horse area. Jim, Sun of Dimanche+, and Mahada Magic Richard T. "Jim" Holland Three Creeks Farm 175 Hells Hollow Drive Blue Ridge, Ga 30513 (706) 258-2830 www.threecreeksarabians.com Callsign KI4BEN -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ridecamp Guest Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 4:29 PM To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [RC] re: seeking advise -horses wont drink from tank anymore Please Reply to: Teresa Van Hove tvanhove@xxxxxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ========================================== I removed the metal tank, put in 2 Rubbermaid tanks, I have moved the horses to different pens with different tanks, I have tried floating carrots and apples in the water, I even put peppermint extract in the water because I heard horses like peppermint, but I can only get 3 horses to drink out of the water tanks. The other 4 will only drink out of buckets. My moms TB bit his heater cord several years ago and shocked himself and quit drinking. Once we figured out he was scared of the tank (it was metal) we watered him from buckets, then 15 gal rubber feeders and then put in a rubbermaid tank with the heater that mounts thru the drain plug (--this was mainly so we could keep the cord away from him ) So it might help if you can change the heater type, espcially if its a floating heater that they can see. and I would try working them up to the new tanks with bigger and bigger alternate containers, and the bigger your container of water the longer it will take to freeeze up till you get them over this. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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