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> They do not have walk-in shelters but do have porosity fencing for
> windbreak and a popular bluff for cover. The group my gelding lives in is
about
> 15-20 horses large and they have about 80 acres to roam around on.
Meant to mention that horses in a group are also less in need of a windbreak
than single horses, as they group up in bad weather and provide some degree
of windbreak for each other.

> I have never in my life seen a horse with frostbite. The main problem I
have
> seen is frostbite of ears/tails in calves at this time of year when
producers
> start calving in January-February (I prefer to wait til March-April).
The only times I've ever seen frostbite in horses (including three years
spent in eastern Montana, where we had actual temps of nearly -50F, never
mind figuring wind chill) have been on newborns that are born out in the
cold and can't get dry before their ears (and sometimes their feet) freeze,
and in trauma cases where there is a body part deprived of part of its
circulation and/or there is shock involved.

Heidi


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