hosing horses legs off

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Why oh why do people insist on hosing their horses legs off when it's freezing and then leave the water all over the yard so its an ice rink in the morning and bloody dangerous
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The fields are frozen so there's practically no mud anyway....
 
I don't hose my horse's legs of with freezing cold water, I don't think it helps with mud fever issue either. I think some people are too lazy to leave the mud, let it dry, then brush it off.
 
One of my pet hates. We used to have some owners who insisted on washing their horse's legs off every night no matter how cold it was. When I explained the problem to them they said the icy yard wasn't their fault as it was the mud not the water that made the yard slippery
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probably the same people who tip there water outside my stable and leting it freeze over for me or my horse to skid on GRRRRRRRRRR

I have salt now as a hint near the tap!!
 
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I don't hose my horse's legs of with freezing cold water, I don't think it helps with mud fever issue either. I think some people are too lazy to leave the mud, let it dry, then brush it off.

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My thoughts exactly.
 
Carthorse - we were told with the extra additive we had in it there wouldn't be a problem?

Old yard routingley salted from Nov till March and their concrete was 20 odd years old with no cracks?

I'm worried now - that concrete was bleedin expensive
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Yes, and actually, I would far rather my horse was left with mud on his legs for a night (who cares anyway) than hosed off every day.
 
I made the YO take the hosepipe away this morning so they can't anymore, ha!

Even with salt on it's still very slippery, imagine about 7 or 8 horses being hosed off and the amount of water this causes.
Also throwing their water buckets onto the yard too..what's that all about?
 
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Yes, and actually, I would far rather my horse was left with mud on his legs for a night (who cares anyway) than hosed off every day.

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Exactly, It won't kill a horse to have mud left on it for a day!
 
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Also throwing their water buckets onto the yard too..what's that all about?

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My YO was sweeping away the water yesterday before putting down salt. About half an hour later some idiots were tipping their water buckets all over the yard, despite having drains in the barns
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Because they are stupid!!!!

No sorry because they dont think. Poor Ruby.
I have asked them but I give up hence the salt everywhere. They also spill it when going back to there stable. You should see the tap area in the main yard.Shocking!!!

Chloe likes it though, bless her!
 
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Yes, and actually, I would far rather my horse was left with mud on his legs for a night (who cares anyway) than hosed off every day.

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Exactly, It won't kill a horse to have mud left on it for a day!

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It's an example of where people are more interested about vanity/appearance than the actual welfare of the horse IMO. Other examples are those people that like to feed their horses 2-3 large hard feed meals a day then little forage. Or those that totally overrug.
 
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Because they are stupid!!!!

No sorry because they dont think. Poor Ruby.
I have asked them but I give up hence the salt everywhere. They also spill it when going back to there stable. You should see the tap area in the main yard.Shocking!!!

Chloe likes it though, bless her!

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LOL I think you were right the first time lol!
 
None of ours ever have there legs hosed unless its for a medical reason. Let there legs dry then brush it off thats what we do! And our yard is a very large RS yard!
 
A livery on my yard not only hoses her 3 horses' legs off every night but decided on Sunday that it would be a good idea to hose the whole yard down to clean it!
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She does this all the time as she is too lazy to sweep in front of her stables but to hoze is down on a freezing night is just stupidity! YM then had to put salt down so that everyone else didn't break their legs because it started icing over within the hour. Even when it's not cold it results in all the hay/mud etc being swept down in to the drains in front of the stables, which then leads her to complain about the drains being blocked. Some people are impossible.
 
I have a warm hose in my tackroom and I hose the horses legs down every night and then rub off and bandage, and none of mine have mud fever...
 
I certainly don't have time to wait for the mud to dry & then brush off before I put on bandages to ride, I towell dry legs after hosing, but then our hose/drain isn't in the way so I suppose safety isn't an issue, mind you everything is frozen at the mo so they don't need legs washed.
 
i leave them to dry overnight, then brush off in the morning. i can't see the point of saturating nice warm dry skin, it's mental.
anyway, mud fever is a matter of whether it is present in the soil at that particular place, not down to good or bad management,imho. i've had a horse crippled with it at one livery yard, she had it for months and had to have vet out alternate days to inject her, it was so bad. years later, same horse lived out for years on different soil, never had a touch of it.
ooh, nearly forgot, on the "nightmare liveries" list:
i had a livery who insisted that i get her mare in every night, shampoo and rinse its legs, and then DRY THEM WITH A HAIRDRYER (all on d.i.y)... i actually did this for months, how pathetic was i?
 
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LOL! This is a laugh or cry post. I choose to
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You must be mad to do that. Did you tell her you weren't going to do it anymore or did you stop when it got dryer? Plus, if it was DIY, why did you have to do it? I don't know what the horse looked like but I couldn't help but imagine you using a hair dryer on feathered legs and them ending up all fluffy and puffballed!
 
she was a friend, and soooo fussy about her mare, and i was a pathetic pushover at the time. she'd take her woof boots home every night and wash them in the washing machine (every single night, after 1 wear), because "i couldn't bear the thought of putting anything dirty near her legs"... as if it was a newborn baby! it was a hannxtb mare, very pretty. it never never rolled either (something wrong with its back) so its rugs were always immaculate, for ever, which only encouraged the owner to be even fussier!
 
last year i did hose legs off thinking 'well if the mud is off he cant get mud fever!!' (i was a novice!!) and lo and behold he gets mud fever. This year i havnt hosed off once-and NO mud fever!!
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