Standing Water



A. I’m assuming this is a fairly shallow depression that holds spring runoff until it eventually leaches into the ground or evaporates completely by mid-summer. This stagnant water may look clean, but I would be very surprised if it is clean. You don’t want your horse drinking or bathing in stale, stagnant water. Contact with such water can introduce unwelcome organisms into your horse’s system or may help promote the development of grease heels, scratches, or other skin afflictions. Your horse would be safer in a pasture without standing water or in which the standing water is fenced out of his reach.


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