Welcome to Trail Tails Tuesday! Share your horse stories and adventures both high and low. Offer your experiences with horses and along with tips and tricks to help keep chores to a minimum and time in the saddle or in the drivers seat at a maximum. This week I’d like to share with you my tips of staying warm in the winter. I’ve working on farms and owned horses for close to 20 years now and I have both over heated and froze myself on cold winter days. [...]
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Most of our horses here in WNY are built for the cold. They are very fuzzy this time of year with thick winter coats to keep them warm in sub zero temperatures. These winter coats are great for battling the cold but not so great for exercising under saddle. Often just a light ride [...] So you want to enjoy your horse during the winter months but every time you hit the trials your horse’s hooves fill up with hard snow making the bottom of their feet look like a snow cone. Not the safest of situations. There are several ways to keep the snow from packing up in [...] |
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