âAs with all athletes, itâs important for performance horse's diets to match activity and athletic level to reach the highest level of achievement.â
âAccording to McKernan, 'A horse deprived of water may only live up to 3 or 6 days. After lacking water intake for two days a horse may refuse to eat and exhibit signs of colic and other life-threatening ailments.â
During summer months, the combination of warm weather and rain can lead to softening of horse's hoofs, which can cause painful and costly problems.
During these longer summer days when horses are spending more time in pastures, horse owners should make sure that horses are protected from dehydration, flies, accidental injuries and infectious diseases which may occur in the pasture setting.
External parasites including house flies, "friendly" flies, such as stable, horse, deer, bot flies, mosquitoes, culicoides, lice and ticks are not only annoying, to your horse, but can be downright dangerous
External parasites including house flies, "friendly" flies, such as stable, horse, deer, bot flies, mosquitoes, culicoides, lice and ticks are not only annoying, to your horse, but can be downright dangerous