Cold, Shivering, Miserable Pony

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This was the scene I found doing the evening feeds.

She won't have a rug on her, she won't stay overlong in the shelter given the choice, she behaves like a cat on a hot tin roof when she is cold.
Nervous and as jumpy as hell.

I suppose the only blessing is that the sheer amount of adrenaline she uses warms her up. Also have been doing hot/warm feeds all winter and haven't really seen any reason to stop so far.

So went old school, made a whisp, rubbed her down while she danced in circles. Because of course the hay she's eating turns into an acid soaked wire brush when it touches her.

Left the two of them with a mountain of hay in the shelters (the other pony is rugged but you have to give equal amounts otherwise she just drives mine off) wondering whether we will ever get any good weather ever again.:mad:
 
Has she moulted out early? Mine still has such a good layer of winter fluff and his new coat has grown through his low clip so I've stopped rugging as he's warm in all the key places.
 
Yep, her winter coats almost all gone but the summer coats not through. Possibly the worst time to get cold, wet weather for her.

That might be why she was so bad at being rubbed down, feels it too much?

And she's a native, lol.
It's been a constant struggle to keep weight on her this winter. Looks like the "summer" is going to be the same.
 
Yes, my native dropped more weight than I anticipated towards the end of winter and he has only slowly regained it, although he has now put on enough for my liking.
 
Just heard from my son that he heard the weather is going to be similar to last years because of the jet stream/gulf stream?
Can't find it on the net but the long range weather forecast is a wet June and a wet July.

Oh joy.
 
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