How Do You Clean A Horses Water Trough?
Cleaning out your horse’s water trough or bucket may seem a fairly easy task, but it requires more than common sense. Keeping your water source disease-free and accessible to your horses requires frequent attention and daily maintenance. Give buckets and troughs a quick but thorough scrub every time. Horse owners too often neglect their horses’ water supply altogether or simply top off a bucket full of dirty water. While some saliva and chewed-up hay leftovers will inevitably show up in horses’ water, other debris like sand, dirt, algae, feces, bird droppings and insect eggs are common and can be dangerous to their health. With some observation, you will get a sense of how quickly your horses drink down their water. Depending upon the size of your water trough and the number of horses using it, you will need to clean it every 1-2 days. Take care to fill it only as necessary to avoid bailing extra water when you need to move the trough out for cleaning. It can be heavier than you think!
