Re: [RC] Cold and blanketing horses - Jackie CausgroveOh, I am familiar with weather extremes (from recently been living in Fairbanks, Alaska) and the hunt regime of blanketing (grew up in the midwest in the hunt and dressage worlds). Frankly, I stick wiith blanketing; especially during extreme weather. Horses are mammals and the physiological effects of cold/wind occur in them as well as any other mammal. Further, blanketing helps to reduce, at least some, calories needed during extreme weather too. I'd rather buy a blanket that I can use over and over again then having to buy more feed and hay in order to sustain the horse through bad weather. And horses start to lose body heat around freezing temps and even slightly higher temps if there is wind/rain etc. So, blanketing can and does make sense; physiologically and economically. And that's my 2 cents worth! jackier (back to lurking
:) Flora Hillman <auriga79@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I figured I might raise some eyebrows on Ridecamp with my blanket regime ... "I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse. " Woody Allen
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