EquestrianClearance.com is on hand to offer some useful tips and handy hints to help you and your horse through the cold winter months.
The experienced customer service team behind EquestrianClearance.com offer advice on beating the cold.
- Floating a rubber ball in water troughs can help stop the water from freezing over in water troughs.
- Consider adding a heater to your tack room, this will help keep your leatherwork warm and supple and help prevent it from cracking.
- If your outdoor school freezes over try harrowing salt into the surface to prevent it from freezing.
- Did you know thirty per cent of the body’s heat is lost through the head? Make sure you always wear a hat.
- If it’s frosty, de-ice the steps and top surface of your mounting block so you don’t slip and frighten your horse.
- Don’t forget your diet. Even though you might not feel like eating something chilled, your body needs help so eat fresh fruit and vegetables regularly to help combat colds and flu.
- When travelling to the stables put your riding boots under the passenger side heater. Upon arrival put them on straight away and your feet will remain toasty for longer.
- Wear tights or long johns underneath your jodhpurs this will help keep you snug.
- Wear a pair of latex gloves under fingerless ones so they stay warm and you can still do fiddly jobs.
- Invest in some thermals they have been designed to trap warm air and keep out the cold.
- If you work in an office the contrasting conditions from a warm office to the chilly outdoors make you more susceptible to colds and flu’s – so beware.
Equestrianclearance.com stock a wide selection of winter riding wear and cosy coats, not to mention numerous thermal items such as Caldene Thermal Leggings, Dublin Thermal Socks, Dublin Thermals Trousers and K*TY Thermal Jodhpurs.
