>>>the majority of you are not blanketing your Icelandics > except in extreme weather ??
I don't blanket here in So CA, but I probably would if riding hard and coming home in cold or bad weather. Luckily, in Arizona, we had room in the hay shed to put a horse. One Easter we had a TWH filly born at dawn, which was a beautiful morning, but a few hours later it started hailing and turned really cold, so we quickly put the mare and filly in the hay shed. Judy