time of the year
well its that time of year - when the clocks change.
It is normally the weekend we start bringing the horses in at night. I'd talked to mum a few weeks back about whether having the additional shelter in the field would mean they could stay out a little longer, but she was sceptical.
However it seems October has caught up with her and she had "forgotten" it was THIS weekend ;) It is soooo mild right now (despite the wind and rain) and her Fell tends to get warm in the stable. He doesn't get rugged but grows a winter coat that is inches thick. Since our stables have had rubber mats down, he has got sweaty when he is in but the weather is mild. So she is going to try leaving them out for a few days more, adjusting the schedule to sort out the hour change, and see how it goes.
In the meantime today has been Clipping Day !! I haven't clipped for a few years and Fi doesn't do enough work anymore to warrant it, though she isn't very waterproof and needs rugging or she gets chilled. Duds is a typical native and also does less work these days. He gets rugged in deference to his age. But we have wanted to avoid rugging Rosie and her tendency to avoid anything resembling hard work meant that getting sweaty wasn't an issue.
But miracle of miracles, these days she is working up a sweat. So I clipped the underside of her neck and the front of her chest. As this was the first time she had been clipped, she looked a bit concerned but let me get on with it.
On a roll I then helped out another friend with a pony who needed the same thing doing (her normal clipping person has lost her clippers :o ).
After clipping Rosie we went out to try out the effect by scampering around some of the stubble fields we still have. She did get sweaty but I didn't feel it was so bad. It was only really a 30 minutes jaunt - way too little given we may be doing a proper ride next week - but we were lucky to manage anything at all as it proceeded to rain for the rest of the day :(
It is normally the weekend we start bringing the horses in at night. I'd talked to mum a few weeks back about whether having the additional shelter in the field would mean they could stay out a little longer, but she was sceptical.
However it seems October has caught up with her and she had "forgotten" it was THIS weekend ;) It is soooo mild right now (despite the wind and rain) and her Fell tends to get warm in the stable. He doesn't get rugged but grows a winter coat that is inches thick. Since our stables have had rubber mats down, he has got sweaty when he is in but the weather is mild. So she is going to try leaving them out for a few days more, adjusting the schedule to sort out the hour change, and see how it goes.
In the meantime today has been Clipping Day !! I haven't clipped for a few years and Fi doesn't do enough work anymore to warrant it, though she isn't very waterproof and needs rugging or she gets chilled. Duds is a typical native and also does less work these days. He gets rugged in deference to his age. But we have wanted to avoid rugging Rosie and her tendency to avoid anything resembling hard work meant that getting sweaty wasn't an issue.
But miracle of miracles, these days she is working up a sweat. So I clipped the underside of her neck and the front of her chest. As this was the first time she had been clipped, she looked a bit concerned but let me get on with it.
On a roll I then helped out another friend with a pony who needed the same thing doing (her normal clipping person has lost her clippers :o ).
After clipping Rosie we went out to try out the effect by scampering around some of the stubble fields we still have. She did get sweaty but I didn't feel it was so bad. It was only really a 30 minutes jaunt - way too little given we may be doing a proper ride next week - but we were lucky to manage anything at all as it proceeded to rain for the rest of the day :(
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