Hey everybody, I wanted to do a quick follow up video to the last one talking about water.
It's really cold with sub zero, minus ten temperatures all night long.
So let's take a look at a couple of water buckets we have going on and they idea I introduced
last time.
Something to check out, insulation, little bit on top, barely touched, full of ice, I
don't know if you can see it.
There is steam coming off this water.
I don't know if it's obvious.
But, it's cold, there's still steam.
Anyways, this is solely run, take my clamps off for a second, you can see here, all I
have going on right now in a pinch, is this.
It's an aquarium heater.
It's better than nothing for what we've got, which is pretty much minus ten temperatures
all night long.
I know there's supposed to be a Lionel Ritchie joke in there somewhere but anyways, it's
steaming, the water is so nice and warm and they are drinking it because this thing was
chock a block full last night.
So, it goes to show, and I put the cord off here at the back, the heater is covered, I
don't want the horses getting to it, but in a pinch when we only have a few days of this
super cold weather, keep the ice off of something so small with a little bit of help with the
insulation.
Zeus!
come here..
What are you doing?
You chasing the horse?
No barking ok?
No.
No..
Do something else.
Now this water here again which I just kind of came up with a temporary solution but we
have a proper heater in it and power going it's twelve hundred watts or so and this,
if you can't see the steam coming off of this thing.
I don't know.
It's hard to see on this screen but it looks like a sauna, yeah you can see that.
Anyhow, this is lukewarm, this is practically bathwater right now, it's working really well,
but this is also low, so the horses have been drinking, we check it every morning, and checking...
hi Zeus, what's going on?
Anyways, it's always important to check your water when you come out in the morning, fill
them up at night time kind of deal, make sure everything is good when you have sub zero
temperatures going on, because you never know, you want to know how much your horses are
drinking, keep track of that, if they are drinking or not drinking you'll know that.
If you have a lot of horses then it's a little bit harder, you don't really know who's drinking
but I do know that both tubs are missing water.
Maybe not a lot but enough that I know that they are drinking, so that's good.
You always have to check those things out.
It's cold, keep a sharp eye on the water and what's happening and that's looking pretty
good.
I'm happy with that.
This video isn't about the best type of heater or the best method to do things, it's about
doing things that's good for the horse when you get really cold weather like this.
What's the fastest way, what the easiest way, what's the best way you can get water warm
or at least kind of ice free, the idea of insulating the tub works well just on it's
own but sometimes you have to innovate a little and if you have a little bit of power you
can just hook up a little aquarium heater and having the insulation over top of the
tub and over top of the piece on top, you can reduce the amount of air that can get
to the water and keep the water full, the other things will help, and that's what we
really want to do, so hopefully that helps a little bit when it comes to taking care
of horses and keeping their water drinkable.
Thanks for watching.