You know its cold when...

[dressagelove]

You have to take a break from mucking out every 5 minutes to stick your hands under your horses rug just to get feeling back into them....!

Poos done outside are frozen to the floor and you have to prise them off....!

You have to use water from the emergency outside trough to fill buckets because all the taps are frozen....!

You go!

 

[Oberon]

You're sat in your living room and you can see your breath when you breathe out .

 

[Clodagh]

Got back from hacking this morning and had to dismount onto the mounting block as feet were too cold to hit the floor.
Only hacked out on the gritted bus route, so not too much ice.

 

[BlizzardBudd]

You go to the yard looking like the Michelin man and have to sit in the car for ages for t to defrost and to regain the feeling in your fingers

 

[Clodagh]

I went to the yard looking like the michelin man and after 6 stables I had steam shooting out from under my coat when I moved my arms! SEXY!!

 

[JustKickOn]

You go to the yard looking like the Michelin man

YES!!
I had on today... Thermal base layer, t-shirt, jumper, thick coat and super thick and quilted horseware gilet. Ear warmer and a scarf plus thermal tights and my jeans!

You know it's cold when...
The horse that usually hates being inside wanted to come into her night time field shelter.

There is ice 2 inches thick in the troughs.

You hear it is snowing just a few miles away, and you're praying it doesn't come this way!

 

[Jools1234]

poo's in the stables were frozen solid at work today

 

[pansy]

Dressagelove - You have to use water from the emergency outside trough to fill buckets because all the taps are frozen

What emergency outside trough - It normally takes a couple of mins to defrost tap - then have water - had to go home & fetch some today , everything was frozen :-(

 

[Lego]

...when the sugarbeet you put on to soak in the morning is frozen round the edges when you make afternoon feeds!

 

[flipthelid]

When the drinkers plus all the taps freeze so you have to water 80 odd horses from one indoor tap in the feed room - fun times!

 

[RainbowDash]

When ponyboy comes to call. And brings the rest of the herd with him.

When you can't feel your toes despite two pairs of thermal socks and thermal muckers.

 

[jess n ollie]

when your gloved hand sticks to the metal handle of the field gate when your ponies, although rugged , have a lovely frosty mane

 

[Luci07]

when a truly hot bath takes on an almost mythical status and my heated electric blanket calls me to bed more loudly than even Daniel Craig could!

 

[3Beasties]

the pony has icicles on her tail, belly and face

 

[Shysmum]

The pee soaked sawdust under his straw had frozen to the floor......

 

[ShowJumperBeckii]

When i'm wearing 4 long selve tops, a hoodie a gilet and a coat and struggle to muck out cause i'm unable to move my arms

 

[titchward]

when you dont notice a pile of poo and trip over it instead of standing in it

 

[kerrieberry2]

when someone else uses all the water in your water carrier, so you have to kick buckets of frozen water to fill the kettles, to poor over the tap to defrost it, to get more water, to make their feeds that have to be soaked before feeding!

luckily I had the day off for the farrier today, would have been well annoyed if that was before work!

 

[wilsha]

when sweat on the horses coat has turned into frost by the time you get off!!

 

[Kallibear]

When your apples and carrots gave frozen solid and you need to saw them to piece and stick them in your inside pocket (of 4 layers) to defrost.

 

[ChestnutConvert]

when the yard toilets pipes have frozen so you have to 'flush' with a bucket of water which is taken from your supply in your barn as the taps are frozen too.

and when the water buckets in the stables have a thin layer of ice

 

[Cinnamontoast]

When you can't get out of bed because you can feel the outside temp is freezing!

 

[miss_c]

When you break the ice on water in the field when you turn out, and when you go back up at lunchtime it has refrozen.

 

[Burmilla]

When the whippet climbs into bed to join you and the cat beneath two duvets a cover and a medium weight stable rug and you dont make her get out. You then have three heads in a line on the pillows: yours, the cat and the dog. In the morning you dont want to get out of bed as whippets make the best hot water bottles ever, and cats make excellent neck wraps.

 

[Queenbee]

Your whippet looks like this...

 

[Kallibear]

Ia that not one of the Dark Riders from LOTR s!?

 

[Fuzznugget]

You empty a feed bucked out because it had water frozen in it & find a frog in a state of hibernation, and later on, while mucking out the pony you find a frozen rat in her water. No wonder poor gal didn't drink much last night!

 

[Devonshire dumpling]

My waterproof leggings were frozen solid over my wellies!

 

[Queenbee]

Ia that not one of the Dark Riders from LOTR s!?

Ha ha! Yes she does look a bit like that doesn't she she is a right tool bless her

 

[Adopter]

The ponies black patches have turned white with frost, they looked as if someone had tipped icing sugar all over them this morning!

Every where was so white and pretty, just had to stop and look and forget frozen pipes etc.