should horses drink water from a height?

[tacallor]

bit of a silly question really.. but i've never been told and i'm not sure! Does it matter? I would have thought it didn't matter but I could be wrong... Lemme know!

 

[Jay89]

In a natural environment horses would drink from rivers and streams so from the ground. However nowadays you get a lot of water drinkers which are placed on a wall and never done any harm!

 

[tacallor]

Brill, thankyou!

 

[Mike007]

As an aside to this point,I have seen horses apparently go off their water and food after a flu jab in the neck . Truth was it hurt to put their necks down . Simple solution ,raise the buckets. As with most horse questions ,there is no hard and fast answer and emphasises how observant we need to be to the individual circumstances.

 

[Thistle]

Drinkers are raised to help prevent them being contaminated with bedding. I always feed hay and hard feed at floor level though.

 

[baymareb]

I'm tired and have a rotten cold - when I read the subject line, I pictured a horse teetering on a pile of boxes or something reaching for a bucket.

Don't mind me...

 

[Mike007]

Ok ,I did too, (well actualy mine was sort of bungee jumping down to a bucket of water) Its got to be somthing in the cough mixture!

 

[tacallor]

hahha - have a very funny image in my head now!
thankyou for replys people