With improvement in health and medicine, horses are living longer and healthier life than their previous generation. In old days, horse life was not more than 20 years. It was hard to find any horse living more than 20 years. But now, 20 have become norm, mostly horses’ live up to 30 years nowadays. Some people think horse is of no use when grown old, but it’s not necessarily true, you just have to show little care towards your horse for using him.
Here are some tips to show proper care of horse .
- Put your old horse away from young and aggressive horse, so that they won’t attack him and he doesn’t need to compete for feed.
- Groom your horse regularly for blood circulation and skin health.
- Always use high quality horse rugs to protect him from extreme heat and cold.
- Check your horse once a week for unusual lumps or growth from head to tail. These are the signs of tumor and older horses have frequency of getting it, if your horse is shown symptoms, call vet immediately.
- Feed him two or three times in a day.
- Always provide him fresh and clean water for drinking. Do not provide too cold water for drinking, old horse can get sever problem on drinking it.
- Mix a bucket of warm water with handful of salt and barn. It helps in protecting your horse from diseases and you don’t need to call vet for long time.
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