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:D The nights are drawing in...
Having struggled to survive looking after my three DIY horses last winter, what can I do to make this winter easier (cheaper would also be good)?
Suggestions, please, on how to prepare for/survive winter! :D
S :D
 
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Look for rugs/snowsuits ect on ebay now as people will be clearing out before holidays and it'll be cheaper.

If you have the storage buy feed in bulk

If you have the time make a fleece neck cover for your horses, this will keep them warmer and cost you less in feed.
 
Keep them out 24/7? I'm planning on keeping mine out a lot longer this year if not live out and bring them in each day to sort them out/feed/ride etc
 
get a bank account especailly for your horse and start paying in small amounts or whatever you can afford so when u got to pay for things you have some money to fall back on.ive got £400 in mine at the moment and keep adding monthly.
 
Normal stuff, buy in bedding now for discounts, buy forage off the fields, clip dependant on work load. My three live out, and only one was rugged last year, they had big bale haylage in a round feeder, and I rarely fed them as they are all exceptionally good doers.
 
Shilasdair said:
:D The nights are drawing in...
Having struggled to survive looking after my three DIY horses last winter, what can I do to make this winter easier (cheaper would also be good)?
Suggestions, please, on how to prepare for/survive winter! :D
S :D
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:p B.S! If I didn't know better I would say T R O L L !!!:D

May I suggest:

Migration (as above) or selling up?

Or, you could keep them out, rough them off, take their shoes off, feed round bales and get a WATER HEATER for your troughs! (Although with your location the last will not be necessary ;))
 
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Enfys said:
:p B.S! If I didn't know better I would say T R O L L !!!:D

May I suggest:

Migration (as above) or selling up?

Or, you could keep them out, rough them off, take their shoes off, feed round bales and get a WATER HEATER for your troughs! (Although with your location the last will not be necessary ;))
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Troll? TROLL?! :mad:
I'm a very, very successful and prolific troll if I am. :p
I put it to you that all points in my OP were factual - the nights ARE drawing in, I DO have three horses on DIY, and last winter was nearly the end of me. :D
So, Enfys, I say YOU are the troll, with all your fiction about Canada; we all know you live near Milton Keynes.
S :D
 
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Troll? TROLL?! :mad:
I'm a very, very successful and prolific troll if I am. :p
I put it to you that all points in my OP were factual - the nights ARE drawing in, I DO have three horses on DIY, and last winter was nearly the end of me. :D
So, Enfys, I say YOU are the troll, with all your fiction about Canada; we all know you live near Milton Keynes.
S :D
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Oh bum! Rumbled. I have concrete horses I'll have you know!:p

I was serious about the rough them off and turn them away bit though. I have all mine out (unless someone wants to pay me to keep them in), feed round bales and have water heaters. Winter is easy, I can feed and check everything in an hour in the morning, and just a quick walk through at night, the rest of the time I loiter on here feeding you all a very wobbly line about being in Canada. (I actually live in Burford not MK)
 
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jhoward said:
sell the tb types and buy nice hardy hairy good doing cobs.:D
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Even better, buy QH's or Paints (which have the added attraction of coming in pretty cob colours), halfway between the two, guaranteed to cope with anything the weather can throw at them!
 
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