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It's been pushing 100F all this week in SE MI with matching humidity so I
sympathize with Mary in MN! This is really the only kind of weather that puts
Braveheart, Bogie and I out of the game. BH is a tough boy and we've been
trying to get ready for Cedar Rapids to avoid disgracing the family name but,
as it turns out, we've taken most of this last week off. Both of us have been
dripping sweat just from walking from my trainer's barn to the indoor
arena...never mind the 8-10 miles we usually like to do with the buggy down
the local roads. Bogie is at home and has been spending most of his days
outside. I have a small barn (3 stalls and a tack room) so I just leave the
back door and his stall door open so he can come and go as he likes. The
water is in the barn and he has hay and grass outside so he's muddling
through. Still, he's pretty sweaty by dinner time so I rinse him off before
he retires to his stall for the night. I know lots of folks would just leave
him loose like that all the time but I feel better knowing he's in his stall
at night. There's no real reason for feeling that way. We don't have wolves
and/or bears (see Mary and Jean) and I really do know that no stall guarantees
that the pony contained therein will be safe from everything. I guess I just
feel better when he's in his room at night. Truthfully, since I can't see the
pasture or barn from my house, I worry more about the activities of my fellow
man than I do about roving bands of rampaging raccoons.
Anyhow, they're saying that day temps are going back to the 80s and night
temps to the 60s this week so I guess the honeymoon will be over for all of
us...and I'm really glad! Bogie will miss uninterrupted leisure but BH is
bored and I am SO tired of my jeans sticking to every inch of me!
To cooler days...in Cedar Rapids too, I hope!
Kay
and Braveheart, who'd be twiddling his thumbs if he had thumbs
and Bogie, who believes that hot days (with an evening bath) are not too high
a price to pay for total sloth
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From: Mary Ofjord <ma...@boreal.org>
To: fjordhorse <fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com>
Sent: Wed, Jul 4, 2012 12:15 pm
Subject: Hot Fjords!!!
This message is from: "Mary Ofjord" <ma...@boreal.org>
his has been a great discussion about Fjords and heat. I am currently
sing my Fjord for a trail guide horse for the local stable. It has been
relatively" hot here in northern Minnesota with the temps in the high 80s
nd the humidity around the same.
The trail we use goes steadily up hill for about a mile to a mile and a
uarter. My horse gets quite sweaty, even sweating around his eyes and face
nd the top of his rump by the time we reach the top of the trail. He doesn't
eem to breathe heavily though. No panting or flaring of nostrils. I have
ried to get him to drink more water and have run across the old proverb -"You
an lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink" more than once.
esterday, I got him to take a few mouthfuls of water by playing Dunking for
ookies! If I put some corn chips into the bucket, he'd go after them, but
e really didn't drink. He did finally take some water in the trough they
ave for the dude horses, which was warm and icky. He's slightly.overweight,
ut seems otherwise in pretty good condition. The stable horses are mostly
rab-crosses and don't seem to mind the heat nor sweat as much as my Fjord
or his owner) does.
Do any of you feel it's okay to keep working him in this heat because of the
weating on the uphill leg of the trip? They generally cool down by the
imes we get back down.
Mary O (in HOT Northern Minnesota) Did somebody mention Global Warming?
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