Basically, there are two ways to prevent sand colic: 1) Making sure your horse doesn’t ingest sand; 2) Making sure sand is ‘flushed’ from the horse’s bowel regularly. Minimizing sand intake Your horse ingests sand when it grazes a meadow with short grass or is kept in a sandy or muddy paddock. Sand can also […]
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How do horses ingest sand?
Horses ingest sand when they graze meadows with short grass, eat sandy or dusty hay or when they purposely eat sand in the paddock. Eating hay that is provided on the bare ground also increases sand intake. Please note that mud, clay and other types of soil can also cause sand colic. So it’s not […]