{"id":30660,"date":"2021-12-03T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teddiezieglerhorsemanship.com\/academy\/course\/how-to-keep-your-horses-water-buckets-from-freezing-3\/"},"modified":"2022-11-03T04:12:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T04:12:59","slug":"bo2-01-13","status":"publish","type":"tva_lesson","link":"https:\/\/teddiezieglerhorsemanship.com\/academy\/course\/bo2-01-13\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Keep Your Horses\u2019 Water Buckets from Freezing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Just Something that Helped me this Past Winter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is just a tidbit that really has helped me this winter. &nbsp;Since I moved from California to Maryland and this was my first winter with snow and freezing weather, I wasn\u2019t sure how to keep my horses\u2019 water buckets from freezing.<\/p>\n<p><span><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" data-init-width=\"300\" height=\"187\" data-init-height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/teddiezieglerhorsemanship.com\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/How-to-Keep-Your-Horses-Water-Buckets-from-Freezing.jpg\" data-width=\"249\" data-height=\"187\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I have an older barn that doesn\u2019t have electricity in the barn stalls and I would be afraid to add it, so I\u2019ve had to come up with another option. &nbsp;Every day I\u2019ve been out to the barn a few times to throw out the ice and add new water, and I\u2019ve even tried taking out the hot water, but that didn\u2019t work long either.<\/p>\n<p>A friend who has lived out here for a while taught me this easy trick and it works great. So just in case you have the same issue, you can try this too.<\/p>\n<p>Get a regular water sized water bottle and pour about 2-3 tsps of salt into the bottle. Then close it up and tape the top of the bottle. Shake it up and put it in your horses\u2019 stall water bucket. This worked with a 20-gallon bucket of water and I haven\u2019t even seen any ice form since I\u2019ve used this method.<\/p>\n<p>I tape the top because when the water gets low, my boys like to chew on the bottle and this makes it more difficult to get the top of the bottle off. &nbsp;The saltwater won\u2019t hurt them, but this way the bottle lasts longer for me. ????<\/p>\n<p>I put a larger bottle, I used an iced tea bottle and filled it with water and about 5-6 tsps of salt. &nbsp;Then taped the top and threw it into the large outdoor water trough and it no longer froze completely but just had a few floating ice chunks on the top.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" data-init-width=\"225\" height=\"300\" data-init-height=\"300\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/teddiezieglerhorsemanship.com\/academy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/How-to-Keep-Your-Horses-Water-Buckets-from-Freezing-2.jpg\" data-width=\"225\" data-height=\"300\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When I threw two of these bottles in, I didn\u2019t get any ice in the water. &nbsp;What a relief! &nbsp;My horses get all the water they need and I am no longer worried about it or running out there every few hours to thaw the ice or replenish the freshwater. &nbsp;Yay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-30660","tva_lesson","type-tva_lesson","status-publish","hentry","tva_courses-bo2","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teddiezieglerhorsemanship.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tva_lesson\/30660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teddiezieglerhorsemanship.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tva_lesson"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teddiezieglerhorsemanship.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tva_lesson"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teddiezieglerhorsemanship.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}