Horse & Hound

Focus on fluids

HORSES can be surprisingly reluctant to drink when you want them to. Different methods have been developed to encourage them, from adding apple juice to the bucket or warming the water, to feeding supplementary salt or soaked hay and wet feed to up the water intake. Such tactics can help, but not when a horse is seriously unwell.

The amount of water a healthy horse needs to drink daily will vary,

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