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Post by Lynne on Feb 16, 2003 14:07:25 GMT -5
and by that I mean that I drug Joe down there with me and we ripped out a wall to the hay storage area and rebuilty it in another spot so that we opened up about 12x 20+ feet of free STAND-IN-HERE-DAMMIT space...
It is still pouring down sleet. Even in the city everything was closed...churches etc. Its nuts. I HATE ICE!! GIve me snow but take the ice!
So now, I have four in stalls and three separate run-in areas for the remaining 3 horses and 1 donkeylet...
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Post by Linda on Feb 16, 2003 14:18:50 GMT -5
You done good!!! (Don't you EVER tell my English teacher I said that ;D) Linda
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Post by Bara on Feb 16, 2003 14:23:31 GMT -5
she-just-said'done-good'-she-did, she did!!
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Post by Smay on Feb 16, 2003 14:34:57 GMT -5
That sounds JUST like me when I lived in Upstate New York and didn't have a good run in for my little range pony.. We had a big ice storm AND wind, and I found him standing in the mud shivering like an aspen tree with a hard layer of ice coating his back. I went into the big hay barn and pulled out about 40 bales of old straw and BUILT him a run in kind of in the corner of the barnyard using the bales...it was cozy and warm and out of the wind most importantly. Dont' ya just HATE a horse to shiver? Gosh I hate that. I also covered him up with two sleeping bags and tied them on with baling twine. Who had horse blankets back then. That little horse was tough, but not THAT tough. I wonder how wild mustangs stay warm.
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Post by Lynne on Feb 16, 2003 14:39:35 GMT -5
Back then?! Who had horse blankets BACK THEN?! I STILL don't have blankets...who in the heck ever needs them except for last night and today. AND!!!!! I know you were here last night....lurking about in the ice storm...spying... You SAW the sleeping bags didn't you?  !!! :hahaha: |
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Post by Lynne on Feb 16, 2003 14:41:41 GMT -5
Smay....we've had this Upstate New york conversation before haven't we? Why don't I remember? WHere in upstate New York?
I'm from Andover which is an itty bitty butthole (or maybe buttwhole would be more precise) town about an hour south of Rochester.
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Post by Lisann on Feb 16, 2003 14:58:14 GMT -5
I got my first horse in '86. I lived in the Northern LP of Michigan then, where lake effect snow is common. I got my first blanket in late 2000, when Flyte was pregnant with Zeus. She barely had it on, 'cause I didn't like how it fit. Now, I live in Missouri, where snow is an oddity. I have 4 horses, 6 blankets, and 3 sheets. My horses are wimps, 'cause I have turned SOFT ;D Plus, they all have stalls and are in when the weather is icky. TEXT should have it so good....
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Post by Lynne on Feb 16, 2003 15:02:13 GMT -5
I was talking with a friend last night (is that the beginning to an old song?) about how I was worried and wanted everyone perfectly comfy etc. I got my first horse in 88 and he had a blanket near the end of his life around 2000, but for YEARS I boarded them at places with pasture board....no run-ins, no shelter other than trees etc. It seems like the more I "get" the more I want to give them. Pretty soon it will be a 20 stall barn and an indoor, not to mention the therapeutic swimming pool Glenna needed and a sling and maybe ....
No that wont be pretty soon will it? LOL
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Post by adcooper on Feb 16, 2003 16:12:06 GMT -5
I rigged one out of an old army blanket. Woll. Nice and warm.
Even now I am trying to construct a hock wrap out of old knee braces from when my daughters played basketball and were always getting hurt.
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Post by Smay on Feb 16, 2003 20:31:40 GMT -5
Fer the horsies? BOy are you a mean mommie. heehee I must admit the blanket thing is one of my nemesis...es... I buy blankets like others buy shoes. I'm currently easing my guilt about cold temps with these big old Stateline turnout rugs...which I really like cause they are water repellent. I couldn't find one in poNee size, though. He needs a little bitty 60" and so I feel all bad that he doesn't have one. I lay awake at night worrying that my little wooly, obese Welsh MOUNTAIN pony is cold... sheesh I am hopeless.... Lynee, I'm sorry you got all the ice down there....we got SNOW like you wouldn't believe and it's all beautiful and fluffy and stuff.... no cold, icy, wet, nasty freezing rain. Just two feet of SNOW.
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Post by Skye Pilot on Feb 16, 2003 20:50:07 GMT -5
Lynne, sorry about all that nasty ice...  Poor ponies.. I would rather take the snow then ice. We haven't gotten any of the nasty snow and ice for 2 days! Knock on wood... Lake Michigan is freezing over YAHOO! NO more Lake effect... I forgot what sunshine was like. I have 2 in runin and 4 in stalls.. til today..... I have been out repairing fences and setting up stalls for the runins.. I have been beating buckets and bringing frozen buckets in the house during the day. Shovelling for weeks to keep gates clear. New filly Xena came in yesterday. Silly Xena ripped down fences and got in the big pasture on the coldest night !!! -16 degrees (without windchill) at 7 am this morning.. fence was shorted in the snow drifts and she couldn't find her way back to the runin. Tonight she is in the stall in the old barn. Paddy Poop went to maternity ward yesterday.... she is on foal watch. |
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Post by ZenRider on Feb 16, 2003 21:04:21 GMT -5
Lynne, ice storms are the worst. Yuk. We pretty much missed the heavy stuff, just lots of wind, cold and drifting snow. Not a problem so much where I live, but out by the barn it's a mess. Though I only saw 4 cars in the ditch on my drive to and from. 3 of them went off together. Problem is the roads are largely clear, ya come around the corner and there's a drift and a windgust all at the same time. Still not as bad as an ice storm, but enough to keep you on your toes.  Can't wait to see the therapudic swimming pool at your white-trash farm. Which I AM going to be highly jealous of, BTW. :brian: |
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Post by Linda on Feb 16, 2003 21:18:56 GMT -5
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!!! :hahaha: 
