“”You’ve got it backwards. The cows live outside. Only the horses have a place in the barn, not the other way around.””
HA! Depends on what part of the country you’re in and the season. I grew up on a farm in upstate NY so our horses and cows were all inside in the winter. The cows were in the pasture in the summer, brought to the barn for milking, returned to the pasture but I believe the work horses were always in the stables. They were needed every morning to take the manure spreader out so even tho’ my memory is slight on particulars, I don’t believe my dad or the hired men went looking for them every morning. We had two riding horses also that were outside and we did have to plan on wasting a lot of time rounding them up to ride. Sometimes we wondered if it was even worth it...They must have been inside also in the winter but I don’t recall just where...
The work horses were HUGE, beautiful animals. My one sister told me in our later years they were Percheron and my other sister said she was wrong. What did I know - I was the “baby” sister.
Percherons are usually black, have more slender legs than other draft horses, and are sometimes used for riding.
I believe horse shows still sell Percheron hats that say ‘I love my blacks’ but I think they’re banned from the internets.