16/07/2022
Some great advice for our horse owners in The UK and Ireland this coming week from our friends over at .
Emergency measures for anyone who doesn't have shade with the coming heatwave. Don't leave your horses without shade and fresh water. Remember our four legged friends aren't the best regulators of their body temperature when in direct sunlight and can suffer heat stroke when no shade is available.
Great idea for a homemade shelter:
Ask a tyre depot for old tyres. Garden centre, grab 4 long posts and 4 bags postcrete.
In the field, where you want shade, put a feed sack in the base of a tyre to stop the postcrete from seeping out, put post in centre, have a friend hold it in position, make up the postcrete and pour in. You can lie them down and roll to move with a bit of grunt.
Once set, use bailing twine to tie shade cloth over the top of the 4 uprights. You could also tie some to the sides. Basic field shade. Non permanent, quick, cheap, effective.
