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[RC] Horse Quencher - k s swigartJessica Raines said: Am I the only one that just tosses a handful or 2 of beet pulp with molasses into the water? My gelding will slurp it right up and it gives him some food in the gut also. Horse Quencher is but one of a multitude of things that you can toss into a bucket of water in order to get a horse to maybe like the water better and want to drink it. Horse Quencher also happens to be one of the more expensive ones. Personally, I vascilate between enticing my horse to drink by offering it really tasty water or teaching my horse to drink what is offered by letting it get really thirsty and then offering it something less than perfectly palatable. In the long run, I suspect that the latter is a better stragegy for developing a successful endurance horse as the former trains your horse to be finicky while latter teaches the horse to take what is on offer when it is on offer because it may be a long time before you ever get a better one, and horses that can learn the second lesson probably make candidates for endurance mounts. Certainaly they make for mounts that need less strict management. This does not, however, keep me from training my horse at home to eat his "soup" (his beet pulp supplement is provided at the bottom of a bucket of water), which he will lap up despite the fact that he as full time access to water and therefore isn't necessarily thirsty. As I said, I vascillate. I don't, however, waste my money buying a product that is practically the equivalent of 4-way grain only much more expensive. I haven't found it to be necessary to pay somebody else to do the experimenting for me to discover what makes water more palatable for my horse. kat Orange County, Calif. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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