JackBlk
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I have had an 15.1hh 6 year old Irish cob for almost 4 months now. He has lived out at night and in during the daytime untill 3 weeks ago as we are limited turnout during the wetter/winter months only allowing them out a couple of times a week in basically bog fields. I have found that in the past 3 weeks while being kept in he has suddenly started becoming particularly wet in the stable going through a shavings bail every 2-3 days.
He has always drank a fair bit but he seems to be drinking a 10-15litre bucket 3 times a day, a whole bucket overnight, another after fresh at breakfast and another after filling up again at lunch and so on.
They are on a very rich haylage at the yard which does tend to unsettle him and often has quite loose poo's. (This is included in the livery so changing the haylage isnt really an easy option).
He has always had a salt lick in the stable but had never licked before being kept in all the time, now he seems to be licking it excessively and has gone through a large one in 3 weeks, i have now taken it away encase he was licking it through boredom but doesnt seem to have made a difference.
I have kept him in before in the summer months quite a few odd times i think of a max of 3 days at a time but he has never been this dirty and wet as he never went through more than a bail of shavings every 7 days on a thick bed which he seemed to be cleaner on, now a thicker bed makes no difference and anything you put down seems to be sopping wet by the morning.
His pee is not dark or strong smelling there just seems to be allot of it.
Could this be due to boredom/stress (he box walks closer to haytime) or is there something wrong?
He has always drank a fair bit but he seems to be drinking a 10-15litre bucket 3 times a day, a whole bucket overnight, another after fresh at breakfast and another after filling up again at lunch and so on.
They are on a very rich haylage at the yard which does tend to unsettle him and often has quite loose poo's. (This is included in the livery so changing the haylage isnt really an easy option).
He has always had a salt lick in the stable but had never licked before being kept in all the time, now he seems to be licking it excessively and has gone through a large one in 3 weeks, i have now taken it away encase he was licking it through boredom but doesnt seem to have made a difference.
I have kept him in before in the summer months quite a few odd times i think of a max of 3 days at a time but he has never been this dirty and wet as he never went through more than a bail of shavings every 7 days on a thick bed which he seemed to be cleaner on, now a thicker bed makes no difference and anything you put down seems to be sopping wet by the morning.
His pee is not dark or strong smelling there just seems to be allot of it.
Could this be due to boredom/stress (he box walks closer to haytime) or is there something wrong?
