This message is from: "truman matz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Go, Jean, go! People are making sissies out of their horses, when nature can much better equip them to take care of themselves than we ever could. (Except for the exceptions you've already mentioned, of course.) One other exception might be someone who shows year-round or very early in the spring, and needs to keep a nice, slick coat on their horse. Even so, it still makes one wonder how the horse ever existed for hundreds or thousands of years without man and his blankets and barns. Judy **************************************************************************** *****
Jean writes: About blanketing...It just astounds me that folks in California, especially >SOUTHERN California think of blanketing their horses! >Here in Fairbanks, Alaska, I never blanket my Fjords even in the winter at >-50, unless one is sick or injured. I have one stall in my little log >barn, and a run-in shed attached to the barn. My four Fjords grow very >thick coats that are much better inhsulation than any blanket. The only >reason to blanket would be in a driving rain, with wind, OR if they are >clipped and without their natural fur coat!
