Has anyone else started bringing in their horses overnight again yet?

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This morning I had a big clearout of my stable and tack room ready for the winter, and this evening my horse will be coming in as the livery who I share jobs with (I turn out, she brings in) wants to start bringing hers in, and I think my horse is getting a bit fed up with living out now. I think all the other liveries will be coming in next weekend anyway.

I am actually looking forward to mucking out again and getting myself into a routine with it, is that strange? Has anyone else started bringing in for the winter yet?
 
Yup.

Old boy decided two weeks ago that it was time.

He's later this year - last year it was beginning or August...but it's usually mid August when he tells me.

I like this time of year when I can concentrate on him alone and spoil him :)
 
No not yet, though I was umming and ah'ing about bringing them in for the night tonight due to the wet and windy weather. I have left them out though, all rugged up in lightweights and medium weights. I am hoping they can stay out 24/7 until the foal is weaned at the end of October.
 
Yes, mainly because there is no grass on my paddock! But I think they would want in tonight anyway. It's cold, wet and windy and forecast to be worse to come.

Did we actually have a summer at all? :(
 
I don't think mine came in until the end of October last year so it is early, but it seems to have got cold really quickly, I have the heating on at home already as well!

I fed him on the track the other evening and he didn't want to go back out which is really unlike him, and on Friday he didn't complain about coming in to be ridden (he will always be caught but then dawdles down the track) so I think he is telling me he wants to come in.
 
Our yard had started making the switch. Today with this awful weather, YO bought pretty much everything in to dry off, including some of the grass liveries. Those in a rain sheet were soaked through and needed to warm up. My old mare is already in a MW rug and was quite happy but my woolly 5 year old dragged me in!
 
Yes. In the summer my mare is out at night, in during the day.
I go back to uni on Monday so she'll be swapped around otherwise she'd be brought in early and let out late, if I leave her out in the day (in at night) she'll be out for longer.
 
Mine have been coming in for about the last 2 weeks now, it's been really cold here of a night. Today they were turned out first thing but were soaked and miserable within a couple of hours and standing in a huddle by the gate so are now back in the warm and dry! Their field is on top a hill and very exsposed to the elements so I can't say I blame them for wanting to come back in at all!
 
I'm bringing mine in tonight as weather is rank however he will be back out 24/7 tomorrow until weather turns really nasty. He's a bit old and prefers being out with a good rug because it stops him getting stiff but he alse gets mud fever and more hours in torrential rain (even without mud!) Tends to set him off!! His body wants one thing and his legs want another! I reckon I might just chop his legs off so they can stay in the stable!! :-)
 
I would bring in tonight but my friend how I share the chores with is on hols for 2 weeks, then I'm off week after so they will need to stay out a bit longer but they are ok at the moment as we have plenty of grass. I think we feel worse them being out in it than the horses do. Been raining non stop since about 10am and set to continue for many days :(
 
I think most of our's are coming in at night now, but I will leave mine out as long as possible. I have given him a lightweight rug tonight to keep the rain off. He lived out for ten years with no rug in his last home but.....no shelter in the field he is in, not even a hedge. He has a friend in the next paddock.
 
Tiny Fuzzy is furious at having to come in tonight :rolleyes:
DF was shivering (despite new lightweight rug on) when I got to yard, so brought her in & spent time rubbing down & warming through - as brand new bloody rug brought yesterday had comprehensively leaked in 4 hours :mad: (other better qual already on order).
I have no other outdoor rugs that safely fit so DF was going to stay in & thus TF was dragged in to keep her company overnight. TF prefer scowling from the corner of a paddock when its raining etc :D

As soon as new rugs arrive (hopefully tomorrow) then both out again till around end Oct unless weather has other plans
 
Sprout said:
Mine are all in tonight, because its been raining all day, and due all night, and they are fed up! :rolleyes:

Hopefully I will be able to leave them out for a few more weeks before they come in for the winter.
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This, pretty much. Madam was waiting at the gate this evening looking fairly miserable and her lw had soaked through so she's tucked up in her stable tonight, happily yomming through a haynet :) . Tomorrow night is due to be dry though so hopefully she'll be back out then...
 
Nope out naked still and will be all winter. He will get rugged eventually but will be out all winter. First time in a few years I've had 24/7 turnout and can't believe how much I've missed it, so nice not having to muck out and pony is a million times happier. Only first full winter with him but think he'll cope fine, have a stable if need be for extreme weather.

Other pony who's out on loan is in at night now though, as loaner is even softer on him than I was! He's a highland and has lived out 24/7 naked but she feels mean leaving him out. Not that he'll be complaining with getting hay.
 
Nope mine out & going to keep them out for as long as poss. My haffy & mums cob unrugged & my heinz57 is rugged as he gets really cold when wet. The weather has been disgusting here since about 11 just hasn't stopped, but at 5.30 mine were all at top of field grazing happily so wasn't bothered
 
We stopped overnight turnout for the liveries at the beginning of September to give the grass some growing time (mine do day in day out instead in winter if needed) and mine have been coming in at night for the last week as were fed up and I hated thinking of them out in the wind and rain especially as they've had to put up with it all summer.
 
Mine came in a few days ago, she had been really down in the dumps so brought her in to keep a better eye on her and she is back to her normal self now so think she was telling me she had had enough of living out
 
Mine are in today and tonight as the weather is foul...I don't want them rugged yet and it is good for them to come up to the yard once a week anyway.
 
Mine are certainly not down in the dumps at all at the moment and hopefully we'll be able to do what we did last year and manage til the end of november. In my eyes some decent rugs on and a bit of hay at night and everyones happy at least until it gets really bad.

We have a few down our yard panicking already with bringing in at night and hw rugs during the day - god knows how these horses will cope when winter actually arrives!

I have two, a veteran and a fit, competing event horse - both are out, look and feel extremely well and are as happy as larry - I think being out is the best place for my two to be at the minute!
 
Honey08 said:
My mare was like that a day or two ago. She had been in a field with a lot more grass for the last two days and seems to have forgotten she is cold now there is more lush grass around!
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I think she would've been less keen to come in if there was much grass in her field, but thanks to the dry weather we've had here for the past couple of weeks its fairly bare at the moment.
 
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