Water plays an important role in maintaining the horse’s health as it can affect the horse’s digestive system, temperature, and fluid balance. Therefore, keeping waterer clean is a vital task when you raise horses.
But it is quite a challenge to ensure your horses have a clean water supply. Keep on reading to know how!
Add bleach to water:
One of the effective ways to keep the water clean and free of algae is to put 1 or 2 drops of bleach into the water. The chlorine contained in bleach is capable of disinfecting the water.
With the help of sunlight, chlorine in bleach will act as a deterrent to the growth of algae. By using bleach, you can be confident that the water supply for your horse is completely clean.
Although doing this can affect the taste of the water, you don’t need to worry because your horse will adapt to it soon!
Use goldfish:
Goldfish is very helpful for keeping the water clean. Raising a few goldfish is a good idea as it can help remove mosquitoes and reduce algae as well. Because goldfish can eat algae, so you don’t need to feed them.
Because fish can’t live in water that contains chlorine, so be sure you don’t do these techniques at the same time.
Cover your waterer
By covering the top of your waterer, you are able to reduce the amount the sunlight approaching the water.
As one of the main causes of dirty water is algae, reducing the amount of sunlight means reducing the growth of algae because algae need sunlight to grow.
It is not difficult to design a cover, and you need is only a piece of wood. Therefore, find a piece of wood that fits your waterer and do the waterer cover now!
