07/29/2025
Interesting
When you fill your horse's water buckets, especially if you are away from home, do not immerse the nozzle in the water.
This is because hose nozzles can be a major culprit in the spread of diseases.
“We’ve found with strangles that one of the best conduits of disease was a water hose, and you see this all the time at shows, where competitors and grooms use the same hose in a barn,” says Robert C. Stout, DVM. “What better way to move the disease from stall to stall and between horses who never actually come in contact with each other? We had one major strangles outbreak at a racetrack where we could track it right down the barn aisle where the same hose was used to top off water buckets.”
