A muddy living environment is a nightmare for you as an owner. Above all, it is extremely detrimental to the health of your horse. Added to that, poor mud management leads to deterioration of soil quality and landscape degradation, even reducing economic value.
As a result, many horses spend a significant part of their lives in boring, confined spaces such as sand paddocks and stables. Under such conditions, they develop health problems and behavioral disorders. Think obesity due to lack of exercise, ulcers from limited roughage, and learned helplessness due to lack of autonomy and social contact.
Every compromise you make in the horse's living environment causes stress to a greater or lesser extent. This affects the horse's resilience in dealing with stress. The more we deviate from their natural habitat, the less we can expect our horse to behave as we would like.
But performing and well-being can go hand in hand. When you design your property in such a way that you can provide movement and more freedom of choice while remaining mud-free. That is what I want for all horse owners so that more horses can have a worthy living environment. That is why I have written this e-book about:
Mud problems
Influences on soil compaction
How horses can promote grassland
Techniques to prevent mud
Better water management
Mud protocol
