06/24/2025
Tech Tip Tuesday!
With the warm weather lately, we wanted to give a few tips to help prevent emergencies.
💦It is always important to keep fresh water available at all times. Keeping your horse hydrated is important all year round but especially during these summer months.
🍀Having electrolytes in your first aid kit would be a great item especially if you are trail riding, doing 4-H events, going to a show etc. You can purchase electrolytes in a powder to add to water buckets or in a paste.
💨Fans are a great tool to help keep horses cool. Be sure to secure fans in a safe location and out of reach of your horses.
🧊Travel tip: add a bag of ice to the floor of your trailer when hauling in the heat of the day to cool the temperature inside the trailer.
✂Clipping horses with longer hair can help keep them cooler. Sometimes a bath will help release the hair as well as brushing.
⛅You may choose to change your turn out times to the early mornings or night time when the sun is down.
🐴Make sure when your horses are stalled, that you provide adequate ventilation and airflow through the barn.
🍎Offer frozen treats! Freezing some apple slices in a bowl of water with a rope, for example, would be a fun treat to hang in your horse's stall during the heat of the day.
If you have any questions about how to help protect your horses from the heat, please don't hesitate to give us a call!
