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Welcome to our summers.  I don't think that the temperature has been  
below 90 F since sometime in June (and 90 is a nice day) and I have a  
great admiration for Arabs as desert horses. Summer is our rest  
period here. Horses get ridden early in the morning or late at  
night.  Recently four women friends and I decided to make the most of  
the full moon and ride to the pyramids stables in Giza and back  
(about 35 km).  We stopped there and had a beer, offered the horses  
some water but they weren't interested, and then we rode back. It was  
a brilliant ride and now I think that next month I want to leave  
about 7 pm and ride to the lake at Dahshur by moonliight. We took our  
time, so it was 1 am when we got back, but what a great way to spend  
the night.  The day was intolerable.

During the day the horses have shade which they occasionally use, but  
mostly they have a good steady breeze from the north. We've left the  
hose running in the sand paddock and they play in the water,  or  
we've left them out in the garden to play in the sprinklers....10  
horses angling for a couple of rainbirds is pretty funny.  But all in  
all, they are  doing MUCH better than I am.  I start my day with  
electrolytes and top up in the afternoon.  Keeps me from running  
right into the ground.

Maryanne
Giza


On Jul 19, 2006, at 1:16 AM, rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> > I would like to hear other's ideas on this as well.  N. Alabama is
> > "on fire".  We too are having consecutive days of over 100 degrees
>
> Am I the only one who has stepped out in this heat and thought this is
> what it will be like if they have the WEC in Malaysia? It's easy  
> enough
> to imagine it in the winter, but when I step out into this it seems
> impossible and even if possible...like something I wouldn't want to  
> do to
> a horse.
>
> I'm not sure what the heat index has been, but it's upper 90s, high
> humidity and it hits like a wall this week when I walk out the  
> door. All
> summer my horses have voluntarily lined up to be put in the barn at  
> 10 AM
> where they stand with fans and hay all day. NOT THIS WEEK. It's  
> been so
> hot they've refused to come in the barn because the barn has suddenly
> become a furnace. What was shade is now an oven. The air coming out of
> the overhead fans was superheated and I had to cut them off. I put  
> a fan
> at ground level but it still feels like standing in front of a  
> furnace.
>
> The good news is...it's so hot the flies are hardly biting!  The  
> horses
> act as if the heat isn't as big of a deal as the flies were. When they
> stay out of the barn they really aren't even hovering in the shade,
> they're out in the sun grazing. When I checked on them (and it about
> killed me to walk out there) they weren't even sweating and didn't  
> seem
> concerned.  I do hose them *before* I ride because they feel kind of
> sticky.
>
> I've ridden up till this Sat. but when this wave hit I've left them
> alone. It's supposed to get less horrible Saturday. Stepping into the
> woods helps tremendously. It's still thick, but no radient heat coming
> off the ground. Good ol' deep woods, humid, rain forests, but shady!
>
> I'm worried about how to control the heat for the farrier. Thinking  
> about
> bringing the horses into the living room.
>
> Angie
>
>
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