I’m not “complaining” but it amazes me how resilient animals are that live outside 24/7, including my own horses.
We’ve had a very long and very cold snap of weather lately. For the past 3 weeks, it’s been below zero at night every night. This week has been extreme, and we’ve hit daily records for it reaching -39 * F at night (air temp … wind chill was colder than that, approaching -60 * F) and it is projected on Monday to be 49 * F .
That is nearly a 90 degree air temperature difference in less than 7 days. Just crazy. For any animal living outside, wild or not.
I know this is gonna set off my horse with heaves (she struggles in the temp swings) so I will be watching her closely.
It’s going to literally feel like summer this weekend. I can’t wait! Time to start getting them legged back up again.
Photo for fun. This was the other night, giving my two girls their extra calories when the air temp was -27 * F at that moment. I feed at my trailer because I do not have a barn. I am so very thankful my horses are healthy, and have great winter coats as I do not blanket. My geldings are fat and don’t need any extra calories … even when it’s this cold! We don’t have a lot of snow right now so they still go out grazing most of the day; I have quite a bit of acerage.
