I hope you’re not leaving your horses outside after dark anymore. Wouldn’t cross my mind to leave mine out at night, due to concerns about theft as well as cats, vandals, perverts, and some psycho who is going around our town cutting off horses’ tails (the hair, not the actual tail bone, so it’s ugly but not painful).
Nope, I always put them in their fabulous stalls at night all year around. Very few horse owners do that around here. Mine get the royal treatment. Big pastures by day, big stalls at night. The barn is even screened in so they have no mosquitos or bugs bother them while they sleep on beds of straw. I wish I had it so easy!
Hey I saw the biggest horse fly ever the other day. Big as my thumb and black with white markings. I swatted him off Jack’s shoulder and got the blood sucker good. It was a blood bath when I squished him. He was the 747 of horse flies. My farrier said it might have been a Buffalo fly, never heard of that before. It was huge ( I mean “hugh”) and it was a serious (series) fly , and I was stunned (stuned) at his size and I should have got a beeber to measure him. He was big and slow enough for me to get him good. Happy Trails!