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to drink. To prevent a horse from going “off water” when traveling or when you move to a
new location, you can flavor the horse's home water for a while before leaving. You'll want
to flavor the new water with the same substance so it will smell and taste the same as the
flavored water the horse was used to at home. You can try a few drops of oil of peppermint,
oil of wintergreen, molasses, apple juice, or soda. Use the additive sparingly and test each
horse ahead of time so you know what will work before you move him.
The trouble with snow
Snow is approximately 5 to 10 percent water. If a horse needs 10 gallons of water per
day and is forced to eat snow, he would have to eat and melt between 100 and 200
gallons of snow per day.
