Tips for healthy horse barns in winter

The reader shares and employee Cheval tips on how to keep horses healthy environment when the temperatures drop.

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Extreme winter weather can often lead to horses kept in the barn, in the elements. But locked in the barn is not always the healthiest choice. Dust, moisture and ammonia can lead to health problems and other respiratory horses.

We asked horse owners, their tips on how to stay clean to share barns and a healthy environment for horses in the winter. Here are a few little tips they shared.

• Ventilation is important. "I own posts every day, and the air in the barn for an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon," Billie Furgerson said.
  
• Hangars in shelters and running outdoors also require regular cleaning. Judi Longenecker, she said cleans the operation of their horses every day to give it to a clean state, without frozen mud and manure place. "Easy Permanent timeless place is a must in my book."
  
• Sheet outside the stall is required. Mincheski Mandi says the horses to go outside, even if it's just enough time to get clean stall and sell also swept dust before they return to their posts.
  
• Clean water bucket. Birdy (ZeekySquirrel) tweeted that cleans the water bucket from his horse and with warm water on a daily basis filled.

Employees also shares tips on horse contribute to their healthy environment horses when they come to a halt during the winter:

• Open windows and doors barn in the warm winter days. Jenny Whittle, TheHorse.com Web producer, suggested opening the windows and doors of the barn, to eliminate stale air from the farm and smells warm winter days. "Our rule of thumb is that if the sun is shining and the wind chill is not to dangerous levels, the horses and barns turned open to nature."
  
• The stalls where horses tied to clean position regularly. Even though it usually spend ideal for horses as much time outdoors as possible, some days it's just not possible. Icy pie, dangerous temperatures, and can prevent the horses spend their time outside of their own safety. News Editor Erica Larson recommends cleaning stables of horses several times a day if they have to stay inside. This will not only your horse dry and comfortable place to reduce idle, but also the amount of potentially harmful ammonia, which is exposed.
  
• Stop harmful air particles at the source. The editor Alexandra advice Beckstett stable his horse, all doors and windows during the cleaning, care, diet or are left open. "We use a leaf blower to carefully remove the dust lanes, chips and other particles," he explains. "Mats quality jobs were also reduced the amount of dust that we use. If it is too cold to turn off the horses receiving the hand or declined slightly in the Hallenstadion".
  
• Caldera, more than tea. As Birdy, Editor Stephanie Church offers the horse with warm water instead of fire safety reasons buckets heated. She says that their crowns bucket Gelding are heated with water in a boiler house and taken to the barn in a thermos frosty nights to help ensure that the drinking.
  
• Feeding hay on the floor of the cabin. A recent study showed that inflammation of the respiratory tract and the particle increases when young race horses ate the haystack. So even if the horse Stephanie finished the race and is almost new, he eats his free choice hay on the ground instead of a small loft to protect the respiratory function.
  
• Horses harder than you think. Digital Editor Michelle Anderson kept his three horses at home. Living outside references lazily put all year, all day, and only those with clips of the body (through regular training) wearing blankets. "We've had temperatures of up to -14 ° C in the desert of Oregon, my horses through the cold out and easily went," he said. "My uprisings castrated subjects much better than when I was done in the barn at a boarding barn." She noted that the acclimatization and hair coats health or strict management participation is the consumption important to stand the cold without stable.

You can find more information about the facilities to keep your horse healthy and safe , such as odors in the control horse corals and other resources to TheHorse.com!

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