It's raining again :-(

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Lying in bed thinking poor horse has no rug on, not that he needs it but I still feel guilty :D no doubt when I go up he'll be in middle of field chomping away! Think I will give him some fast fibre and happy hoof though for breakfast.

Sorry a pointless ponder post but I have a cold and can't sleep :(
 
ahh i know :( got up ridiculously early this morning to get ready for some eventing! don't think it will be on though so now hoping pony isn't wet under her rug.. and hoping i still have the old spare so i don't have to bring her in today to dry it off for later!!
 
I put the Old one and the Skinny one in the stables for the night, but I've just been out to walk the dogs this morning and although it's raining and windy it's unbelievably WARM out there.
 
Supertrooper said:
Lying in bed thinking poor horse has no rug on, not that he needs it but I still feel guilty :D no doubt when I go up he'll be in middle of field chomping away! Think I will give him some fast fibre and happy hoof though for breakfast.

Sorry a pointless ponder post but I have a cold and can't sleep :(
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Gosh, I woke up at 6am, loaded with the cold and lay awake worrying that my rather overweight unclipped cobby thing would be sufferring due to lack of rug! I am trying to hold off from rugging until the end of october but the way our weather's been I fear I'm about to give in.
Hope your cold is better soon!
 
gala said:
I put the Old one and the Skinny one in the stables for the night, but I've just been out to walk the dogs this morning and although it's raining and windy it's unbelievably WARM out there.
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That's the thing, it's still warm! None of mine have rugs (apart from one having a rainsheet on to keep his back dry when the girl rides him later!) and they are all hairy! Tia doesn't even get clipped in winter, sure, keep her feathers and that tidy, but she is done the old-fashioned way! If she gets too sweaty on a ride, she gets thatched and left to dry off then let out later! :D
 
Aw, hope you feel better soon SuperTrooper.

As for the horses, I'm sure they're enjoying the rain. I've been out in it already this morning and it's not cold at all.

All our horses at the farm are very wet but don't seem to give a flying monkeys about it. In fact, one keeps trotting though the gate to the other field and skidding (this is his party trick). It's like ski-ing for horses. We'll probably have no grass by tomorrow if he keeps this up, but trust me. Horses like rain. It cools and soothes summer skin and stimulates all sorts of good things.
 
tallyho! said:
Horses like rain. It cools and soothes summer skin and stimulates all sorts of good things[/I].
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Please can you tell that to my cob x who has been out in a thick wooly coat with a rainsheet on and comes in completely tucked up & shivering when it's 14 degrees and then refuses to go back out again!
 
All the horses at the yard were out grazing in the middle of the fields this morning, couldn't care less. I, on the other hand am fed up, hunter trial cancelled today and tomorrow is mean't to be nice, but I'm back at work...........
 
Just got back from checking them and when I arrived himself and the old girl dozing by the hedge line. It is warm out there so not concerned at all now. Both came over for some breakfast which I probably didn't need to give them but the old girl is 36 and can't feed one without the other. Tried not to look at all the standing water on the field :( I fear that as soon as we have the rubber matting fitted it'll be in at night time just to save the field a bit!
 
sonjafoers said:
Please can you tell that to my cob x who has been out in a thick wooly coat with a rainsheet on and comes in completely tucked up & shivering when it's 14 degrees and then refuses to go back out again!
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I'll tell him he's a wuss but I think he's trying to say can you take this useless sheet off mum!

He's better off without a flat sheet that flattens the coat and renders his natural warming facilities useless, and the sheet lets heat escape. You may as well put a heavyweight on. At least he'll then be warm and dry.
 
Mine is out without shelter at the monent :( - The pony has been locked in it on vet's orders and Maiden isn't allowed out of pony's sight so she doesn't get stressed, so poor M has to stand in the rain. Hence sticking her rug and neck cover on! It's howling and pouring out there. Poor thing had to have bandages on last night too because of a fat leg, and they were soaked by this morning. Leg had gone down though so it wasn't a pointless exercise!

Damned rain. In fact, damned injuries. If pony was ok they'd be in the back field which has trees and thick hedges on three sides!
 
I left 2 of mine in last night as I rode late and wanted to ride early this morning. I have been out mucked out, hayed etc and then went to look at the school. what was my arena and lovely and dry yesterday, is today a swimmingpool, to the extent that the poles I left out last night for schooling have floated to the outside of the arena.
Guess I will have to hack out.
It is incredibly warm though. In a T shirt mucking out.
 
Yes I have not long been back in having got throughly drenched from head to foot! It started to rain as I left the house but I tacked up and went out in it regardless...the rain was dripping off my hat, down my hi viz jacket and onto my jodpurs to make everything...including underwear...throughly soaked...lovely!!!
Have now dryed off and horse is out eating not at all bothered by it all.
 
tallyho! said:
I'll tell him he's a wuss but I think he's trying to say can you take this useless sheet off mum!

He's better off without a flat sheet that flattens the coat and renders his natural warming facilities useless, and the sheet lets heat escape. You may as well put a heavyweight on. At least he'll then be warm and dry.
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I try to keep her dry Tallyho due to suffering with really bad rainscald in the summer when I left her out without the rainsheet. She only has it on when it's wet, so she is naked when it's cold & dry and like you say she is fine then.

I clipped yesterday & turned her out in all the rain in a mediumweight & she was just right this morning.
 
sonjafoers said:
I try to keep her dry Tallyho due to suffering with really bad rainscald in the summer when I left her out without the rainsheet. She only has it on when it's wet, so she is naked when it's cold & dry and like you say she is fine then.

I clipped yesterday & turned her out in all the rain in a mediumweight & she was just right this morning.
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Didn't realise she was clipped. That is a different story altogether. Poor thing re the rainscald. How did she get that?
 
tallyho! said:
Horses like rain. It cools and soothes summer skin and stimulates all sorts of good things.
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It's been raining here for 24 hours, believe me my horses do not like the rain today, in the heat of summer they do enjoy it. Some are refusing to come out of their shelters at all, others were standing there shivering so hard I could see them shaking from the barn.

Some are in to warm up (stampede to the barn) others are blanketed and looking a lot happier. Jeez horses, it's only 9C, not cold at all, but the wind is a bitch and probably makes it feel more like about 2C (which still rates as not even chilly in the grand scheme of things) I hate the rain, we rarely get it for so long, bring on some decent cold weather and snow rather than this depressing stuff that makes me feel as if I have woken up in the UK:(
 
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The rain has gone here now and we have glorious sunshine and its WARM too so tubby hairy cobbish thing is still out rug-less. She had created her own 'rug' from mud today when I brought her in to ride, so maybe she's trying to tell me something! :)
 
enfys said:
It's been raining here for 24 hours, believe me my horses do not like the rain today, in the heat of summer they do enjoy it. Some are refusing to come out of their shelters at all, others were standing there shivering so hard I could see them shaking from the barn.
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God you lot have such wussy horses!!! LOL :D:D:D

No, joking aside, I think in this warm but wet autumn weather here, I'm sure they can fend for themselves but if we get combi of cold, wind AND damned rain then I might feel a shred of guilt leaving them naked when they've not got a savannah sized paddock to run and warm up. It's all a balancing act. But for the purpose of this thread I was suggesting that they would be okay. I'm not a complete banana box. At least not yet... ;)
 
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