I love riding horses, always have, but lately it’s become a really expensive hobby to have. I moved farther out to the country which puts the drive to my stables at about 30 minutes so gas alone is eating me alive. I’ve also had a hard time keeping up with the cost of keeping my horse and finding time to ride with this new job has also become a chore. I love my baby but I may have to let him go if I can’t find a better solution. I got http://www.satelliteinternetbroadband.com/ at home so I could try to find a horse caregiver online that could maybe just watch him for me while I was working so much but I kind of feel like that’s unfair, too. I know he really needs one owner he can trust and if I can’t give him all the time he deserves I should just let him go. It’s hard getting so attached to an animal and wondering what it would be like to live without him!
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Providing enough water to livestock and large animals is a necessary daily chore. Stock tanks are the most common container used for containing drinking water for them. Stock tanks can be made from steel, UV protected plastic and even aluminum. Plastic has its advantages in that it does not get rusty. Rust can cause problems for animals if ingested in water. Rust is in fact iron and iron if ingested in higher than recommended quantities is not healthy.
Other containers I have seen used for water tanks are stainless steel drums, cut in half and the edges protected so they will not cut the animal and old claw foot bath tubs. The bath tubs are often enameled and if cared for properly will not chip and expose the underlying steel, which will rust.
The photo at the top of this post shows what you can do with a stock tank……….make it into a water garden. It makes a great place to keep Koi or goldfish. You will need to provide some sort of filtration system if you have more than just a few fish. Koi and goldfish poop a lot and that needs to be removed from the tank to prevent a build up of gases in the water.
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Don’t use a car to lead a horse home. The video news item below shows what happens when two men bought a horse and decided to tie it to the lid of their car trunk. The young stallion suffered some really bad wounds and the men were charged but will get a slap on the wrists if found guilty. Watch the video and find out more:
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