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Effects of Horse Dehydration
Good hydration is crucial to your horse’s health year round (yes – wintertime too). When well hydrated, your horse performs better and digests easier. So a lack of fluid, as you can guess, has adverse...
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Horse Health: Hydrating Your Horse after Running or Racing
Photograph by Life 123 for Tips for Riding a Horse Safely. It is important to properly cool down your horse after a hard workout such as jumping or racing. Like all athletes, horses need to cool down...
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A Salute to the Army Horse
This Veteran’s Day weekend the staff at Nelson Manufacturing commend the men, women, horses and other service animals for their significant contributions towards our freedom and world peace. Photo...
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Horse Health: Hydration During Long-Distance Shipping
Photograph by Living the Country Life Magazine for Customizing a Horse Trailer Hydration for horses during shipping is extremely important, especially on long trips. Many people in the Northeast ship...
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Are Your Livestock Drinking Enough Water?
Water is essential to the life of all livestock and is important to continually replenish. Water aids in the digestion of feed, milk production, performance and body function which is key to...
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Horse Watering through the Winter Months
Winter is just around the corner, and for livestock owners, this often means patching up walls, inventorying the hay supply, ensuring vaccinations are up to date, and checking the insulation in the...
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Holiday Gifts for Horses
Looking for gift ideas for your horse this Christmas? Check out our list below: Brass Nameplate or Sign Deck your stalls with nameplates and signs for your horses. Nelson Manufacturing has tons of...
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Alpaca Care Basics
Shelter When adding a shelter to your property, consider seasonal climates and weather protection for your herd. Alpacas enjoy shelter that keeps them out of the heavy sun, away from wind and rain and...
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Health Hazards that Can Hide in Your Horse Feeders
You spend time and money investing in your horse’s health but if your horse’s feeder is a feeding ground for germs, dirt and debris, your efforts might be a counterproductive. Below are a few red flags...
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A Stock Tank Alternative
Stock tanks have been around for ages and offer livestock a spacious, communal place to drink. Stock tanks are certainly an economical choice and are affordable to replace if needed. Here at Nelson, we...
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Winter Horse Riding Tips
If you’re anything like me, you probably don’t have too much motivation to get out and ride in the wintertime. But on the off-chance that you do, you’ll want to make it worthwhile by having a long,...
View ArticleWinter Hoof Health
For horse owners, winter is often a time of hibernation. Apart from keeping an abundant hay supply available for your horse (digestion of hay is what keeps up the animal’s internal temperature), there...
View ArticleTo Blanket or Not to Blanket? Keeping your horse comfortable this winter
If you’re a member of the horse world, you were probably bombarded this fall with catalogs advertising all manner of winter turn-out blankets. There would have been scores of warmth options, from the...
View ArticleAutomatic Waterers and the Prevention of Colic
As many of you reading this probably know, colic is a grazing animal’s number one enemy. Fast-acting and extremely painful, colic often kills in less than 24 hours. While there are a number of...
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Nelson’s Automatic Waterers – the best choice for your dog or kennel
Like many animals, dogs require constant access to a fresh, clean water supply. But dogs are also very active and inquisitive, and will often knock over, get into, or chew up a generic water bucket or...
View ArticleKeeping your livestock cool this summer
Keeping livestock cool in the summertime is vitally important, not only for the sake of comfort but also to prevent heat stress. If heat stress sets in, livestock productivity and/or performance...
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How Automatic Livestock Waterers Work – Part 1: Refilling Systems
An internet search for “automatic livestock waterers” will turn up an overwhelming number of different makes, models, and styles. A basic understanding of how automatic waterers work can help you sort...
View ArticleBasic Horse Grooming
Unlike other livestock such as cattle or hogs, horses require regular grooming. In this post, we cover basic equine grooming and maintenance from the bottom up. The Feet In horses, everything begins –...
View ArticleHow Automatic Waterers Work: Part 2 – Heating Systems
In Part 1 of this series, we talked about how different automatic waterers refill themselves. While there are benefits and drawbacks to each method we discussed, deciding which refilling system to use...
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Raising Livestock: How to Raise Premium Livestock for Making Money
You may remember the old Wendy’s ad: “Where’s the beef?” If you’re considering raising livestock for a living, you need to do your research, prepare your facilities, and make a commitment to hard...
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