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My, how times have changed!  I remember when I was 
teenager and had my first horse, the pipes in the barn
froze in the winter (Toledo, Ohio).  My sister and I
had to dig through to snow to get out of the house and
dig into the barn, then hand carry buckets of water
for the horses, cows and pigs.  At that time, we
didn't mind at all, we were so in love with our horses
and it gave us an excuse to see them before the bus
came for school.  'Course, we were city folk
transplanted to the country and had no idea about
water heaters!  Great exercise and did manage to warm
us up, too.

Esther and Chagalle, who never worries about his water
freezing since his world resides in Sunny Florida


--- Jody Rogers-Buttram <dragnin100@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I love the email name, "Icy Pony"  sounds like that
> it is appropriate for where you live.  As for the
> water troughs.....you and this story is why I won't
> use a tank heater.  Of course living in the South, I
> only have to break ice maybe 12 times all winter. 
> But I am scared of the heaters.  I know that people
> in cold climates have to have something to help
> them.  Looks like the other people have offered some
> good ideas of putting feed in the trough.   I don't
> know of anything you could try.  Sorry about ordeal,
> but at least the horses are physically OK, but may
> be scared a bit mentally.
>    
>   Jody in 50 degree weather and sunny!!!
>
> IcyPony@xxxxxxx wrote:
>       About 6 weeks ago my tank heater shorted out
> and shocked my 7 horses. The tank heater had only
> been plugged in for about 2-3 hours that day. I have
> always kept my tank heater plugged into a GFI outlet
> and the water tank is attached to a grounding rod.
> It turned out my GFI outlet was not working so it
> didn't trip. The grounding rod probably kept my
> horses from being electrocuted. It was 4 days before
> I realized my horses were not drinking. Since then I
> have tried everything I can think of to get them to
> drink out of the water tank again. I normally have a
> large metal tank that serves 2 pastures.  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. I
> have tried to take the
>  buckets away and the horses start eating snow which
> will not provide them enough water. I can't keep
> hauling buckets of water all winter. The buckets
> freeze quickly and the horses don't have free access
> to water. I'm afraid they will colic. Does anyone
> have any ideas?
>   Mary
>   
>
>
>                       
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