There was an interesting discussion the other day at the Chronicle of the Horse about soaked feeds and water intake. Like so many other horse owners, I always feel better giving my horses some sort of wet meal when the weather gets like this. I was under the pretense that I was surreptitiously sneaking extra water into them. In all actuality, they're more than likely not getting anything "extra." Several sources cited that feeding a wet meal just proportionally decreases oral water intake, since they already have sufficient water absorbed in the intestines. And here all the conscientious horse owners of the world thought we were outsmarting our horses. Regardless, my ponies still got their soaked alfalfa cubes tonight, with some e-lytes. I'll outsmart you guys yet...
And now, a random picture of B to remind us of warmer days:
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