Re: Re: Blankets

["Karen Sullivan" <greymare@jps.net>]

Wow!  I'll bet those are some healthy horses!

Karen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Drin Becker" <rainbow@montana.com>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 9:16 AM
Subject: RC: Re: Blankets


> " But, heck, I understand, in some parts of Idaho,
> horses are turned out in the snow all winter, no shelter and do just fine.
> Karen "
>
> We live at 6500 ft. and have about 15 head of assorted horses from foals
to
> 30+ that are never ever in a barn , stall or lean to in the winter , they
> are all kept in a crick bottom with lots of willow bushes . We get an
> average of 2 feet of snow most the winter and temps that dip below 30
below
> at times and hang on like that for days . When it gets below 0 we let them
> free feed on hay until the temps come back up above 0 but otherwise they
are
> fed grass hay once a day and nothing else . We do keep loose rock salt out
> for them at all times and then a heated water trough so they can choose
> between the crick or the trough . Since we started with the rock salt we
> have had no more winter colic episodes .
>                                                 Drin Becker
>                                                 Montana
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