Horse in tonight

[Orangehorse]

I have put my two in the stable tonight and they seemed pretty happy about it. Horse was making a fuss, galloping round, rolling in the dirt, which means he feels cold, and looking appealingly over the garden fence at me and obviously wanting attention, so I obediently went out to see what he wanted! Pony was shivering in the corner so I decided to put them both in.

OK, I know it isn't that cold, but they had been rained on and the wind is quite cold, and my paddock has no shelter from the prevailing wind. There is some shelter, a thick hedge shelters from the east and north and another tree gives good shelter from the rain, but the wind usually blows from the west/south west directly into the field.

At least I can ride first thing in the morning on a dry and clean horse. Roll on autumn.

 

[Pearlsasinger]

Ours are out but they did get their 5 o'clock hay an hour early because when I went out to do some work in the yard, they told me very loudly that they were wet and hungry. I was glad I hadn't made them wait as then it started hailing, to the point that I went back into the house. Fortunately that was the last shower and we actually had a very pleasant evening, although it certainly was windy.

 

[meleeka]

Not quite in but my oldies had 100g rugs on tonight. It’s forecast rain and there’s a definite chill in the air.

 

[Penny Less]

Not long till winter routine now !

 

[Red-1]

*whispers* Mine was in the stable and in a rug last night.

*Runs and hides*

 

[Chinchilla]

Your horses are all wusses, but I love that they put up a fuss about being a bit chilly and you all ran to sort them out. The things we do for these stupid beasts we're all mad, aren't we?

 

[milliepops]

I'm quite close to turning mine around so they are in at night again. It's a nice temp during the day now so I'd rather they get the sunshine (we aren't allowed to turn out 24/7)

 

[JFTDWS]

I'm not bringing in until I have no choice. But I did put a 100gsm rug on my mare when I turned her back out after I hacked her (in a sodding thunder storm - wind, pelting rain, thunder and lightning - that was a lovely hack).

I promptly took it back off her, went back to the yard to get her a rain sheet and left her in that instead. It's that sort of indecisive weather :/

 

[oldie48]

I rugged Mr B last night as he's lost a bit of weight and tbh does feel the cold, not Little Fatty though whom I am happy to shiver a bit of weight off. I've plenty of grass so they are out at night and for most of the day, just coming in so Mr B can have a couple of feeds and to give LF a bit of relief from his muzzle.

 

[SEL]

It's hard. I found 2 soaked miserable horses at 7:30pm last night and put a 50g on the mare who struggles. Wish I'd done the other one too because he wasn't happy this morning despite extra hay.

Heavy rain the in early hours tomorrow morning so shoved rainsheets on both of them when I left the yard. They were a bit surprised because it was still 18 degrees and warm.

 

[DabDab]

I'm trying to resist turning mine around to in at night because I far prefer when they're out at night. But tonight marked the start of the daily drag to the field of the princess mare. So I gave in and out her chewed up, ripped up 100g on her. Still, should be warmer again this week.

The big man is wrapped up in his 200g (and not for the first time) :eek3: *prepares to be thrown off forum for horse abuse*

 

[scats]

I’m looking at 3 tubby bellies and thinking that this turn in weather might make them utilise a bit of that extra covering they all have at the moment!

It is grim though, I think the problem is that it’s suddenly gone very cold and horrible from being very warm and dry.
I tend to swap mine round during October half term, so still got a good 8 weeks to go.

 

[JFTDWS]

The big man is wrapped up in his 200g (and not for the first time) :eek3: *prepares to be thrown off forum for horse abuse*

You are a disgrace, and you shouldn't own horses. There is absolutely NO possibility that anywhere in the UK, any horse in any circumstance could possibly need a 200g rug. Haven't you heard it's August? It's ALWAYS sunny, delightful weather on August bank holidays!