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RE: [RC] Soaking Hay/Salt - Sarah Seashols

<Salt and soaking hay Disclaimer -- so that all of you with fit horses who don’t chew salt shouldn’t worry>

I was naughty and didn’t have a salt block in my pasture for a little while.  We have moved to a new house and cleared trees, but the horses are living in stumpville with very little pasture.  So they only get what I give them, and whatever hardy grasses have popped up since spring.  They’re probably a bit bored as well, and a new set of salt blocks are exciting stuff.

 

I guess I should also add that if it were just my endurance horse, I probably wouldn’t do a thing different in the heat – free choice hay, water, salt, and a nice beet pulp/grain mash for dinner.  He’s tough, and sensible enough to eat and drink when he needs to.  But I have a “delicate flower” that colicked once when the weather changed, a pasture potato that I’m just starting to work, and a 35 year old pony that I worry about….

 

Sarah

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