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Felt sorry for small pony in rain as I wouldn't want to be out in this so he is now tucked up warmly in his stable munching on hay.
 
You are a good human :) we finally got the shelters sorted last night and got the horses in and gave them food and hay. They promptly raced off to explore the new paddock set up :D what's the betting that they will be out grazing in the rain ?
 
My small pony did a runner out of the nice dry compound/stables whilst I got my horses in and ran off into the field :/

Made a half hearted attempt to catch him til the rain reached my knickers then gave up and left him there :/
 
I think my thing is that since forever owning big wb horses they have never lived out, always brought in at night and on livery.

Since owning a small welsh A as a pet I treat him the same and can't get used to his being a hardy soul who could live out.

I seem to bring him in or out dependant on whether I'd want to be in or out. He seems to like his stable though :D
 
TrasaM said:
Ungrateful creatures. My friend has gone to a lot of trouble and expense to get the shelters built and do they appreciate it..no.
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HaHa I think shelters again give us comfort that they are there if needed. If you want them to use them try feeding their hay inside them.
 
I do too!! When I first chucked the retired one out I kept doing drive by's at random hours on my way to work I.e 3am to make sure he was ok! Fretted about him being cold/wet/miserable etc etc. if I'm cold surely he must be too :) OH even did a drive by or 2 to keep me happy, then said he's a horse, he's designed to live outside, let him get on with it!!
 
BBH said:
HaHa I think shelters again give us comfort that they are there if needed. If you want them to use them try feeding their hay inside them.
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And then they pull all the hay out on to the mud in the rain and lay on that :rolleyes: wonder why we bothered.
 
I anthropomorphise too :D. The temporary stable I arranged to try to dry out my horse's sodden feet was so small, cramped and dark (or at least that's how it seemed to me, standing in it with a 17hh outdoorsy type) that I turned him back out in the rain and gales. He's romping around with his pals looking relieved :p

We can dry his feet out in spring...
 
My Dutch Warmblood mare barely grows a winter coat.. JH came to visit us Sunday and was most unimpressed :D

I leave them out all the time.. My Clevelands haven't been stabled before.. The breeder's farmer husband built field shelters last winter, but would my yearling use it?? Erm, no! However where Mystique goes, the Clevies follow.. So I left them open access of two fields and the stable block with some hay..

I'll see how she is tonight before I decide about rugs because it's still 13 odd degrees anyway.. The other 4 stay nekkid all year round..

I am also a bad owner :( lol
 
Well mine are out 24 hours in summer unlesss the weather is really bad and in on a night in winter.

However, reading about all these people with field shelters makes me feel like a bad mum..... I'm so pathetic!
 
To be fair, field shelters aren't really necessary if you have natural shelter available.. Mine tuck into the hedges or stand under the trees at the bottom of the hill.. My mare was cross tied on box rest for quite awhile on box rest though when she broke her shoulder so prefers an open stable and hay when it's offered..
 
Oh well we do have trees and bushes all round.

I shouldn't even be worrying so much, I have a welshy not a TB or something else that loses 6lbs if it looks like it might rain! But if it starts to hammer it down while I'm at work I tend to go 'Nooooooo!!! The horses!!!" Then get strange looks.
 
Ours ignore the hedges and trees too, unless eating them!
The field shelter was more for my benefit as in somewhere dry to make feeds as to store hay at the back of it. They've had just fields for 3 years and been grand :)
 
This is what my Welshy thinks of shelter and rugs and grass :D

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