Peglo
Well-Known Member
Do you leave your lights on in the stable if your horses are in overnight through the winter?
Off of course, they can see in the dark perfectly well anyway-it’s adjusting from dark-light-dark which takes them longer than it does us. Plus they need natural light cycles as do all animals.
I turn them off but Archie turns his back on EVERY....BL00DY...NIGHT. . Apparently he will sometimes turn them off at some point (according to YO who lives on site) but he'll always turn them on again and leave them on until we get there in the morning, He escaped one night and turned a few of the others' lights on too.
I think he likes playing with the switch more than wanting the light on. The switch is outside his stable door. We tried to put a piece of wood at 90 degrees to the wall on an angle bracket at the side of the switch to stop him reaching it but he just bent it back and forth until it came loose. We gave up at that point and just found the lowest energy bulbs on the market.He sounds like a right character. I like that he decided the others needed their lights on ?
I think he likes playing with the switch more than wanting the light on. The switch is outside his stable door. We tried to put a piece of wood at 90 degrees to the wall on an angle bracket at the side of the switch to stop him reaching it but he just bent it back and forth until it came loose. We gave up at that point and just found the lowest energy bulbs on the market.
He's normally last in of an evening and he insists on going round the other stables to check on his mates before going to his stable so I assume he went to say hello to his friends, maybe accidentally found a switch and then realised there was one outside every stable door - they're in the same position outside every stable. All the field gates have to have an extra chain around them as well as the bolt on a spring as he can open those. He opens his top bolt every night and the time he escaped, he must have leant on the door so hard that the catch for the kick bolt came out of the door frame. He is, as you say quite the character!yeah I assumed that. Funny he went looking for more switches.
He's normally last in of an evening and he insists on going round the other stables to check on his mates before going to his stable so I assume he went to say hello to his friends, maybe accidentally found a switch and then realised there was one outside every stable door - they're in the same position outside every stable. All the field gates have to have an extra chain around them as well as the bolt on a spring as he can open those. He opens his top bolt every night and the time he escaped, he must have leant on the door so hard that the catch for the kick bolt came out of the door frame. He is, as you say quite the character!
I love hearing stories of horses like this. (As annoying as it must be day to day) he sounds very funny and must be great entertainment to have around. He’s put a smile on my face hearing about him.