Horse Accommodations

Video Transcript

"This is Randall Powell with Expert Village, and in this clip, we're going to talk to you about proper accommodations for your new horse. You need to make sure that the new home you bring your horse to has adequate water. Always have water out for your horses in the hot or the cold. They need shelter to keep them out of the rain and the sun on the hot summer days. It's good for them to have a shed to get under, something to get in the shade. Make sure the fences around the area are properly secure and that the horse can't get tangled up in any kind of wire or cut up by barbed wire. You also want to make sure that the ground around doesn't have a lot of holes in it where they can step in and twist their feet or hurt themselves in that manner. Also, in all your gates make sure that you have latches that you can latch a chain or whatever you tie your gates with you can put that latch on there to secure the gate to make sure that it won't come open. Horses play around with the gate latches quite a bit and they've opened them from time to time in my experiences and gotten out before. That's something that you really got to watch. You also need a clean dry place to hang your tact and keep it off the floor as well as you horse feed. You don't want to have that just on the ground getting wet and mildewed. It might get your horses sick in the future. Just make sure the horse is secure and everything. All the surroundings are not going to harm him in any way. That's the proper accommodations for your horse."