Health & Care · #hydration

Health & Care guides tagged “hydration” from the Apex Equine resource center.

• Beating the heat: managing horses through a brutal summer — Heat stress sneaks up faster than people expect, and a dehydrated horse is a colic and a tying-up waiting to happen. Here's how to keep horses safe when the heat index climbs.
• Water and electrolytes: the cheapest health insurance you've got — A horse can go off feed for a day and recover. Go short on water and you're looking at impaction colic. Salt and clean water do more for health than most of what's in the supplement cabinet.