Winterize Your Farm Equipment
With cold temperatures just around the corner, it’s time to start winterizing your equipment.
Maintenance is a crucial step for keeping your equipment functioning properly and at it’s best. This is especially important during the winter months. Colder temperatures can be much harder on gears, hydraulic fluids, and other essential components of your equipment.
Review these tips on the best ways to prepare your valuable equipment for the winter months:
- End-of-season oil change: this applies if you have a four-stroke engine and is definitely one of the most important steps to take. Clean, fresh oil will be less likely to cause engine deterioration while the equipment is idle through the winter.
- Clean your spindles and blades: It is best to take a leaf blower or compressed air to clean off any loose grass or dirt to keep it from corroding onto the belly of your mower and causing damage.
- Carburetor Care: it is good practice to let your gas tank run dry or add a fuel stabilizer to prevent gum deposits from forming.
- Remove the spark plug wire and unplug the battery: this is to prevent accidental starting and/or fire risk.
By implement these steps in your winterizing routine, you’ll have well-functioning and prepared equipment when it comes time for Spring!
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Equine Parasite Control
As you are preparing your equipment for winter, don’t forget to check on your horse’s health too! There’s a lot to consider for your horse as colder months approach, but one essential component is often overlooked: Parasites. Cooler temperatures do not mean that parasites will disappear just like other barn bugs do. Here are some things to keep in mind:
- Many owners get confused about how often to deworm and when during the seasons. The University of Colorado has a great chart that depicts a healthy parasite control schedule: See Chart
- It is good practice to have a regular fecal egg count done on your horses. This is a laboratory diagnostic that estimates the number of parasite eggs in a horse. It also informs you of the type of parasites that are present so you can determine what dewormer is best.
- Age and location also play a part in parasite loads and high egg-shedders vs. low egg-shedders. It is has suggested that in a herd of 10, 8 are most likely low-shedders, and the remaining 2 are responsible for most of the shedding. Read More
- Regular mowing and maintenance of your farm helps control parasite counts as well as the health of your pasture and horses! We are partnered with industry-leading equipment companies to bring you to best value to your farm.
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