7 Things You Should Not Do With horses young

Posted by Livers on January 3rd, 2021

Are you ready for this? It's a super-duper rancher secret. Here goes:

Bacon grease.

Yup, I do suggest bacon grease, put directly from the fry pan into an aluminum can after you're done making breakfast. I build up 3 or 4 giant soup cans' worth of bacon grease at a time, specifically during the winter season, and after that utilize it lavishly in the spring, summer season, and fall to keep the horses delighted and without flies. I keep it in the refrigerator or freezer between uses.

How to Use Bacon Grease to Keep Flies Off Horses

Using this grease is easy, if a bit unpleasant. Simply take the can of bacon grease out of the fridge and let it warm up a bit, up until it's a little gooey and runny. Then use it around your horse's eyes, ears, and face. Slather it down your horse's midline, top and bottom. That includes your horse's throat, chest, belly, and the area behind the hind legs. On top, use it on the midline from the withers to the tail head. If your horse has a scratchy tail, you may put a little bit on the tail head.

Unlike regular fly sprays, which are only helpful for a few hours, bacon grease will repel flies for up to a week. These include regular flies, giant horse flies, mosquitoes, and even "no-see-ums," those tiny bugs that you can hardly see but bite.

My quarter horse gelding, Walker, will actually buck and run around like a mad-man if a huge horse fly lands on him. The other sensitive horse, my mustang mare Samantha, develops welts and swellings from fly bites.

Repelling Flies from the Inside Out

Bacon grease works great to keep the flies away from horses, particularly if you don't mind smelling like a short-order cook after you're done. For horses with sensitive skin that are reactive to fly bites, I've also found that particular dietary supplements assist ward off flies from the within out. Two that work well are high-quality mangosteen juice and apple cider vinegar.

I feed my horses an ounce of XanGo mangosteen juice daily, either in their feed or merely by squirting it in their mouths with a syringe. Prior to I found the mangosteen juice, I fed the horses 1/4 cup of apple cider vinegar two times a day with their feed.

Over time I have actually discovered that the very best combination of natural home remedy to keep n horse the flies far from my horses is to slather bacon grease on the outdoors and feed the XanGo mangosteen juice or apple cider vinegar internally. Together they work like a treat to keep my horses happy and fairly devoid of flies-- naturally!

The most natural approach of breeding horses is when the stallion runs loose with the mares however nowadays there are 3 other primary approaches utilized:

Artificial insemination where semen is gathered from the stallion and placed into the mare synthetically

In-hand breeding, where stallion and mare are united in hand under regulated circumstances

Embryo transfer, when an embryo is taken from one mare and implanted into another who will carry it for the complete term of the pregnancy

Allowing a stallion to run with his mares is the most standard method and the horses are able to act as they would in their natural wild state. In this circumstance it is never possible to be certain which mares have actually been mated and on what dates.

The mare and the stallion are brought together and held by handlers. Mares are often placed in hobbles to avoid kicks and injuries to valuable stallions.

Artificial insemination has actually become a lot more common as it is making reproducing with top stallions available to all. It likewise lowers the management of the mares as they can be inseminated in the house or at their regional veterinarians rather than having to travel to the stallion. It does require a high level of expertise and veterinary assistance to produce high fertility rates. Numerous stallions can be taught to utilize an artificial vagina which collects the semen. This is then chilled or frozen if not utilized immediately and can then be delivered to a mare anywhere all over the world.

Embryo transfer is the most modern of the approaches and has actually been established or performance horses to permit competition mares to carry on contending whilst still producing children. This method implies it is also possible for the mare to produce more than one foal a year and does not put the pressure on the body that having a number of foals over a life time would. The embryo is taken and moved to a recipient mare that is used simply to produce the foal thus enabling the donor mare to return to competitive life.

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