All summer long my horses have gone without sun burn. This week three sunburned. All three in the same pen. The horses in the other side did not sunburn. The difference is not shade. The difference is not the individual horses. The difference is diet.
Pasture number five has a variety of clover that causes photosensitivity in some horses. The horses that were given unlimited access to that pasture had problems with sunburn. The solution is to end that unlimited access for the remainder of the summer and use the pasture sparingly.
Pink skinned horses are best kept away from some varieties of clover.
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