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Assuming we have the promised thaw over the next couple of days, is it actually worth trying to get the horses back in work if it goes cold again next week? My 2 hunt and don't want to risk them loosing any more fitness, but if ice stops play again next week, is it worth it?

Can't decide - what is everyone else going to do?
 
Yes I think it's worth it, put it this way what harm can it do, least they have had a bit of work between even if we do get more hard frost/snow in due course, little bits here and there is better than nothing I think, just don't get used it though, be prepaired to hang your boots up again, it's a real pain though I feel like I've just thrown months of work down the pan at the moment. :(
 
See exactly where you are coming from, it is just so depressing atm. I considered hunting on Saturday (if they go) as my boy has been on the walker twice a day during the freeze up but decided as I won't be able to sit on him before Saturday it might be asking a bit much.

I am going to take him out for a wander over the weekend just for his sake and a change of scenery as he is getting dizzy going round and round the walker, poor love.
Was hoping to get him out hunting on Thursday but that is looking unlikely.
 
sorry to rub this in but *thank god for indoors...*

mine isnt out of work - the indoor is small but workable. Its due to thaw.... so tbh id get them back working imo
 
My sons horse has not been rode for 3 weeks due to weather conditions.I may try and ride him out for a hack at the weekend.
My mare has had no work for 9 weeks and no shoes on,as i tore my ligament in my ankle,and now im fit to ride again the weather has put it on hold.Im not going to put shoes on her,or ride her until probably after christmas now.I see no point in bringing her back into work until all this weather has gone.
Hunting has been cancelled again this week.Cant see us going for another few weeks yet :(
 
I would do if I could get back on mine just to give them something to occupy them and not lose all their fitness. Its been 2 weeks for us and I am watching muscle tone drop off the pair of them - particularly galling as my mare was on week 7 of her back to work campaign and was beginning to really show her fitness.
However the roads are really icy (still) and so is the yard. School is still frozen and my danger point is going to be actually getting on them for the first time..
 
mine have been on the walker, in the menage and the odd hack out tho no fast work, tho they have cantered in the menage. and have been turned out every day. and still clean as no mud!!!!! if horses were properly fit prior to the freeze then they wont have lost too much fitness! but to paint dom and gloom this freeze/snow is predicted to last another 14 weeks or so! bar the odd thaw day!
 
awww snow tiddely pom it can't be that bad can it??

I hope it doesnt last 14 weeks, i've just quit my riding school so it means no riding friends horses til snow has gone :( i think i may go stark raving mad if we have to wait that long!!
 
My lot haven't been out of work - ponies only get ridden Fri-Sun anyway, and my TB is unshod so could still ride her in the snow. We have access to good hacking, quietish roads, and the field is still flat when frozen so can walk on it. Haven't really missed having a school as everyone who has one says theirs is frozen!
 
Take care all coz if you've had the overnight temps that we in S Wales have had, the ground is frozen very deep and will take more than a couple of days to thaw. So the going could still be hard and the potential risk of injury to legs high.
 
Sidney said:
Assuming we have the promised thaw over the next couple of days, is it actually worth trying to get the horses back in work if it goes cold again next week? My 2 hunt and don't want to risk them loosing any more fitness, but if ice stops play again next week, is it worth it?

Can't decide - what is everyone else going to do?
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I am going to leave it. We have ridden for quite a while now and as my horse is usually a bit a a plonker for the first ride after a break I can't seen any point in going through all that and then having another layoff. It's really looking like the new year to me.
 
It's 8 degrees here today and the rest of the snow and ice is finally melting. Have managed to hack out three times so far this week (even though some of it did involve having to walk on grass verges!) I hope the snow doesn't come back too soon - I hunt one of my boys but haven't been able to get out yet this season because the first meet that was near me was cancelled because of the snow last weekend! Meant to be going out a week on Tuesday so it doesn't get cancelled again. I'm riding mine as often as possible, they are both fit and I intend to keep them as fit as possible so when the time comes when I can actually go hunting I will know I have done everything possible to make sure he is fit enough.
 
Sidney said:
Don't want to depress you all but anyone seen metcheck long term forecast, as flagged up on hunting forum?!!
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Yes! Looks like we might get a proper white Christmas - sorry guys - South Bucks here and the snow has missed us this time around.... hope we get bucket fulls and you get none if that makes you feel better ....

I could do with an extra week off work too!

As for the riding - again - not really affected me too much as we are vvvvv lucky and have an indoor school, oh and the dry frozen weather has kept the mud at bay too - sorry sorry sorry - I know some of you have been suffering big time .....
 
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