in this video I'm going to show you how I feed my horses salt and explain why
it's necessary to have available for them I prefer to feed my horses lose
salt versus salt blocks because I think that it's probably a lot easier on their
tongue they really need to spend a lot of time licking a salt block in order to
get their daily required amount of salt sometimes during the summer months in
addition to the loose white salt I will put white salt blocks next to my water
tubs I think that this helps encourage them to take in a little bit more salt
which causes them to drink more and that's always a good thing I think they
also enjoy chewing on them too it gives them something to do I don't do this in
the winter though because the salt blocks just melt down into the snow
horses need salt in their diets just like humans do salt is an electrolyte
and it's something that is absolutely necessary in their diet so I have
muffins here I've got a bucket of salt and she's like oh that's fabulous
um basically you know a lot of folks just take a salt block and just tossed
it out in the past year I found that that's you know after doing research and
seeing how much a horse actually needs in their diet they need you know it just
the minimal is a couple of tablespoons a day so what I started doing is I give my
horses their salt free choice so I have plain loose salt that I get from the
feed store in 50-pound bags and in my shelters I have because I'm like well
how am I gonna feed them loose salt in the pasture when my horse is stay out
24/7 so what I have done is we've got a little theater there in the corner it's
just a little rubber feed pan and we attached it to the wall and as you can
see this was filled I don't know maybe two weeks ago not quite I make sure to
check my salt feeders every week but typically I only have to fill them every
two weeks but even when they have salt in their feeder they still all come over
and and find me and they like to to eat it out of the bucket
salt is really important year-round for our horses in the summer they sweat so
much that we really worry about them not having enough electrolytes in their body
so salt really plays an important part their salt encourages horses to drink
water which is really necessary in the winter I'm always concerned about them
not drinking enough which can lead to impaction colic and that's very scary to
deal with so we want to make sure that they always have salt available to help
with that and I can always tell to if they've ever run out of salt and we
refill it the next day it seems like the water tubs are just empty easy just
drinks so much water well I hope you found this video useful and helpful
maybe a little interesting if you did please be sure to give it a like share
it with your friends comment below let me know how you feed your horses salt I
really put a lot of thought into how I was going to start feeding horses loose
salt since they're pastured so I'd really like to know what everybody else does I
know some people just add it to the horses grain but not all my horses get
green so that was something that I needed to think about too so please let
me know in the comments below I would really love to hear your thoughts thanks
for watching