Most of people as pets gets cats, dogs or hamsters, but not so it is not enough also owners of larger animals – for example, horses. Keeping of a horse – an expensive and responsible action and if you decided to get a horse, you should consider a number of features of this animal and also to know his requirements to the environment, food and leaving.
Instruction
1. Before buying a horse, define where she will live – if to build the private stable and to employ the groom for care for an animal, the horse will cost you in very large sum. It will be much more favorable to agree with others stables or with a hippodrome about placement and accommodation of a horse.
2. Payment for a horse in that case begins from 300 dollars a month. However this price includes only accommodation and standard procedures for leaving. If you want the horse really to do not need anything, pay extra to the groom 50-100 dollars a month that the horse was always fed, given to drink, cleaned and received enough walks and fresh air.
3. Not to spoil a hoof of a horse city asphalt, you should buy the special automobile trailer-konevoz which cost on condition of second-hand will be 2-3 thousand dollars.
4. Also include regular veterinary services in financial maintenance costs of a horse - it is hoof care, tooth care, preventive vaccination, vitamins and healthy nutrition. In a diet of a horse surely there have to be high-quality oats.
5. Choosing the stable for a horse, you watch that it was not too far from your house. You have to have an opportunity to reach the stable less, than for an hour and a half from the moment of an exit from the house.
6. The stall in which there lives a horse has to have the sizes at least 3 on 3 or 4 by 4 meters. If in the stall a floor is filled in with concrete or asphalt, it has to be covered with a thick layer of sawdust, and have to feed a horse in the stable at least three times a day. Two feedings have to include clean oats, one feeding – porridge, and not less than three times a day the horse has to drink water.
7. In the stall the employees of the stable have to maintain purity – during the day there regularly have to remove manure, and sawdust has to be dry and clean. Near the stable there have to be walking paths, riding platforms and a forest zone.
8. The is more qualitative the stable you will choose, the price for a billeting of a horse will be higher. Always pay attention to what state contains other horses on the stable chosen by you – if they thin and not well-groomed, choose other stable.
9. Before making a trip on a horse, always independently you clean it, saddle and bridle. Having returned from a trip, pound a horse hay and wash away hooves. When you are not in the stable, should not hand over a horse without your permission in a hire. Agree with the experienced employee of the stable who will ride a horse in your absence to provide it working off.
10. Visit a horse in the stable at least 3-4 times a week. Otherwise your relations with a horse can not develop. Therefore to support a horse, you have to have a lot of free time.
11. Learn to bring correctly a horse to the stall – at first come into the stall independently, leading a horse, and then pass around the stall and develop a horse facing a door. Then leave the stall. To avoid injuries, never stand in the doorway of the stall when the horse comes inside and also do not leave a horse by a back to an exit, otherwise she can kick you when you leave.