Cold water in morning feeds, what do you think??

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I'm the lucky sausage thats gets to the yard first in the morning and as a result I feed those neds that have breakfasts. I've constantly moaned about people not leaving enough water with their horses feeds and expecting me to go off and find some, something I do not have time for!
When asking one owner if she could leave some water with her feed she told me to feed it dry, this is chaff and mix and the ned struggles to eat eat to say the least.
Howver the reason is that the horse gets cold and therefore can't have cold water in her feed, so how does she drink the water in her stable and field and god only knows how she manages with eating grass thats been rained on!!
Some peeps have very strange ideas!!!
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well, I have always put warm water in my horses feed, one morning when the water heater in the tack room was frozen, I thought, bugger, cant be bothered boiling kettes from the kitchen, so will just put in cold water. Well, my arab, decided that cold water in his feed wasnt good for him, and took collic as soon as he had finished it. Visit from vet, followed. So moral of story for me, boil the kettle in future, as would have saved me £50. pounds !!!!!!!!!!!! Just like everything with horses, you cant make the tiniest change, or it upsets them.
So, suppose it depends on what the horse is used to.
 
Sorry - you are being mugged! - its bad enough feeding a yard I (i know i am currently feeding 24 horses at 5.25am in a morning - just so i have time to ride one at 6 (mine only gets a handful) but to be looking for water for the lazy so and so's - forget it.

I really would not worry any more - stop feeding for a few days - the horses do get used to being ignored. And i do not and will not put water, or sugar beet into a horses feed in a morning - not unless it is on antibiotics or something - and even then i do it grudgingly - its all to easy for everyone to leave the "donkey" work to a few willing soles - but i bet you this if you were late to the yard - bet you your horse would still be without breakfast - i know it happened to me last week and i feed the entire yard virtually everyday ! - the excuse was "i thought you would be up soon" - oh cheers - just been witness to an accident and was giving a police statement... arrive at yard 2 hours later than normal
 
Oh Gingerwitch you are so on my wavelength, I feel like an utter muppet when I'm there feeding everything then I get down to the yard and my horse is left out screaming his head off or everyone has taken rugs off in the warmer weather and left my two sweltering, one of the other liveries actually fed one of mine the wrong breakfast and said well I'm not trudging out to feed the other he's outside, yes in a field just outside the barn, WHY DO I DO IT!!!!!
 
We do it for the horses - not the ignorant, selfish, thick egits that we have to put up with - pity we are not in the same area we could "band together" and have a day off the horses once of twice a year !
 
Know that some horses do need water but if they do than the owners should leave it by the feed in a bucket or something or if they want there horse to have warm water then I suggest they boil the kettle at night then put this water into a thermos and it should still be warm enough in morning!! If not then don't feed, let the other liveries realise you are not goin to feed all the time!!
 
When I worked on a large livery yard we used to feed for the DIYers in the mornings as we were on the yard at 6 - because most of them didnt bother putting water in their feeds we started carrying a 2 litre bottle of water round with us to pour into the feeds. Looking back they were probably fine with dry feeds
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but it seemed like a good idea at the time, and quite a few of them overloaded their horses with supplements in powder form etc so a bit of water probably made it more appetising.
 
Tell her to soak it the night before? I do this and its still damp and soft the next morning.

If she doesn't then just don't feed it xx
 
As long as she doesn't do what I did the other day - forget to check the weather before soaking it. Try explaining to a food obsessive horse that they can't eat breakfast because its set solid
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I seem to be completely missing the point here......have always mixed breakfasts the night before with water already in, regardless of whether I'm feeding them or somebody else is
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I always put cold water in Zips feed - there is a tap 6ft away from my feed bins tho so is very handy. I damp it down quite a bit as he can get a bit choky but if I try to do it in the morning ready for evening, or at night ready for next morning he wont eat it as the nuts go completely to mush. Fussy bugger! I've never heard of putting warm water in any feed other than a bran mash or when you're boiling linseed. Is it just an anti colic thing for v sensitive horses??
 
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