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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
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I'll bet they're just stable blankets and not waterproof turnout blankets. I had never bought turnout rugs before last year, but have come to the conclusion that everybody needs one occasionally if their horses are out in the weather. Even if they can get into a shelter, that doesn't mean that they'll do it until they get too wet and cold for it to help very much. Goofy horses!
Everyone lays down at some point back there, I found Bay laying down right smack in the middle yesterday and they usually have shavings or hay in their manes in the morning like they've been down. Lately when it's been mucky out, they're spending a lot of time inside during the day too. They've not had that luxury before. And they aren't messing it too bad, we've been mucking it out every-other day. They're peeing a lot in the outer lean-to, which is impossible to clean, it's a matted mess out there. So I wish they weren't doing that.
Agreed... Once they're soaked through and it's cold out, it's hard to get them warm even inside.
Yeah, but I can understand why Hair might not want to risk it. They had some pretty bad nights there for a while. But then again, they were closed in when all that ruckus happened. The worst that might happen now is that she'd start avoiding the barn. The safest thing to try might be to just turn on the breaker to the barn when somebody's gonna be down there, then turn it back off when you go back to the house. If that's possible of course.
Yeah, we could try it, maybe, sometime when we want to invite a challenge :~). It is safer to test them now when they can get out without breaking something. It'll always be a sortof unsolved mystery unless we do. And as a practical matter, I really miss the big mercury vapor light on the front of the barn at night.
Oh I know, I don't know that I would want to risk it...it make for a nervous waiting game, since you never know for sure when it's going to happen.
Becky
The only other thing I would know to do, is go ahead and take that wall apart and see what's behind it. Surely doing that you would be able to see if there was a short. But I can understand not wanting to do that either...kind of 6 of one and half dozen of another:)
Becky
Right now I'm not looking for any challenges, we're having enough worry with the weather. I'm in 'keep it simple mode' till spring I think.
Why IS it that horses seem to want to do their business in the very place we don't want them to?! I had all that nice gravel put down in front of the barn door so it wouldn't be so mucky when I went down there to feed, and where do you think that every flippin one of them had decided to pee and poop? Right there in the door on the gravel. They'll come in from the pasture and poop there! I can get a wheelbarrow-full of horse crap off it it every day, and heaven help me if it's bad weather and I can't get to it for a few days. They'll completely cover the gravel up. It makes me crazy!
Harley comes in from the pasture to poop in his stall....I think that's almost the only time he goes in.
Becky
Heh... If they weren't so expensive, I'd get mats for the outer lean to and leave them clean and matted. That would be a real easy surface to clean. Mats everywhere!
Tiff did that, she's got a big wide area right outside her stalls that always got muddy before and now it's all rubber mats. It's nice.
I talked to Kay (Bob's Kay) yesterday, and I guess Kat is fitting in really well there, he's not done anything with her yet, probably won't do much till spring, he's like me about riding in bad weather, but evidently Kat and his big ole Appy Kai are in love with each other and eat hay out of the same pile. That's a surprise, but terrific news if they can stick to each other like glue it'll be easy to get Jesse started on trail.
I had warned him that Kat had a thing against the male species, since she hates Bay so much. I guess it's personal, she only hates Bay :~)
Makes you wanna smack 'em don't it!?
My sister did that at her barn too. They found some runner-type rubber mats at a flea market somewhere and put them under the porch in front of the stall doors, under the drip-line of the porch and on out in front of it for a ways. They really did cut down on the mud there too. Come to think of it, hers may have been old used conveyor belts, but what ever they were, they did the trick.
You can use that line here LOL - it's 16 degrees.
"Holy Frozen Horse Apples, Batman!"
Tiff used rubber stall mats, but I'd be happy to find a cheaper substitute.
I really, really want spring to get here. This is getting real old. Our high today and tomorrow was supposed to be in the 20's but it will never make it that high.
I almost laughed the other day when ya'll were talking about wanting spring to get here, because we've hardly had winter yet! We're finally getting some cold weather now, but it's a while before spring is HERE, huh? Over a month before I can even prune my roses .. eeeeeek.
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