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You obviously haven't met the Jbird. He was born in FL and spent his 
whole life in FL. He doesn't grow much of a winter coat - much less than 
our other horses. Much below 40 - especially at our place where the wind 
seems to always be blowing in the winter he needs a rug of some sort. If 
he doesn't have a blanket he will shiver and be miserable. How do you 
know he is miserable - if left to shiver overnight you'd better watch 
his teeth when you put him away to feed, he'll tell you about it.

He's a cold weather wimp. However, in the FL heat and humidity he can go 
all day long at pretty good speed. without much problems. While I have 
to put a blanket on him in the winter from time to time - actually quite 
a bit where I live - in the summer I have two horses that I clip because 
their summer coat is too heavy for them to work much in tropical heat 
and humidity with their summer coat.

So it really depends on the horse and the climate they have acclimated to.

Truman

Diane Trefethen wrote:
> Debbie Kirchner wrote:
> > locate it... also open the shed away from the winter winds, we have
> > ours open on our south and East sides, the winds come from the North
> > and West here..
> This is important and you won't know how the wind blows at your new 
> place till you've been there a year or if the former owner can tell 
> you.  FWIW, horses are very comfortable in their winter coats at temps 
> in the hi 20's through 50's.  It is humans that get chilly.  Even wet, 
> mine don't get sick.  Shivering isn't the expression of discomfort in 
> a horse it is in a person.  It's their way of increasing internal heat.


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of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."    Niels Bohr 
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