I feel as if have no right to complain about the cold, being in South Florida.....but, it has gotten down to 47 degrees here, and was in the high 50s and raining all weekend. Which is *very* cold for this area. My old pony and my TWH/QH were just fine through all the rain and are now fluffy and warm. However, my 4.5 year old Arab mare (future endurance horse) is shivering! I found her shivering Saturday night when it was still raining....so I put her in her stall and locked her in for the night. Btw, they have two stalls that they can go in and out of at will, none of them were using them at all throughout all the rain. Then, this morning it's perfectly dry out, though colder, and she's shivering again!! She is my first Arab, are they all like this? I grew up in NJ, where we had *real* winters and we never blanketed.
Sooo, short story long, can anyone suggest a good, waterproof and rugged blanket? My pasture is very....um, natural so it'd have to be a blanket that could stand up to the branches and such.
Cheers!
Patti F. and the freezing Serendipity
