Saturday, 12 January 2013

Special Products For Horse Owners

By Roland Stockwell


If you own a horse or perhaps several horses, you probably spend a great deal of time out on the trail with your animal. You probably also spend a great deal of time caring for your animals, and there is quite a bit of work that goes into proper equine management. Here are a few items that no horse owner should ever be without.

Horse care can be quite expensive, but you can limit this expense with constant care and maintenance. Make sure your horse has regularly scheduled checkups and don't neglect overall body care. Horses need to have their bodies brushed regularly, and you need to especially brush areas such as the tail and the mane to avoid tangling and keep the hair healthy and clean. You also should check for any scratches or cuts anywhere on your horse's body, check for insect bites and also ensure that the hooves are clean and healthy.

You will need a high quality set of grooming products which includes a hard brush, curry comb, a soft brush, a mane and tail brush and a hoof pick. You also will need shampoo and conditioner for your horse. Your veterinarian or other horse owners can offer good recommendations. While you shouldn't skimp on these items, you can save money by purchasing a wooden tool caddy from a hardware store, rather than purchasing a pricey one from a tack shop.

Keeping the stable clean is also extremely important, after all, you certainly wouldn't want to live in a dirty area and neither does a horse. You need two pitchforks, one for manure removal and the other to help you spread around fresh bedding. A wheelbarrow can be used to remove all the old bedding and excess dirt. A good quality broom is another essential for stall cleaning.

Obviously, horses need fresh water at their disposal, so that means that every horse owner needs to have a stock tank or horse water tank. These are essential large troughs where your equine friends can gather for a drink. While it isn't practical to empty and refill these large tanks each day, it is important that the water be clean and well maintained.

To that end you can purchase a product such as the Stock Tank Cleaner by Healthy Ponds to maintain the water quality of your horse's water tank. This unique cleaner has been approved by veterinarians and contains absolutely no chemicals. Instead it uses a helpful mix of bacteria that reduces the sludge and organic matter in the tank, and it even reduces the odors from the tank.




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