It’s predicted to be quite cold this coming week for my area. As usual, my horses are not acclimated to cold as I live so far south. It’s in the 70s (F) as I type this.
Objectively, the worst weather looks to occur on Friday with several inches of “wintery mix precipitation”. I’ll likely stall the horses for that mess as I don’t trust blanket waterproofing.
On several night before then the current forecast calls for feels like lows cold enough that I’ll want to put something extra on my aged, cold weather wimp, sensitive tummy Honcho Pony. He has a heavy (360 gram) with hood that he wears already when feels like temps are below freezing. He’ll need more than that for the upcoming cold snap. I know that ideally we’d layer blankets with the lightest layer on top. However Honcho Pony has a mix of pony cut and horse cut blankets. His heavy is a horse cut and he has limited choices that would fit over the top of that. He has a 50 gram and an old 0 gram sheet that would likely fit over the heavy, but I don’t think those will be quite enough for him. My other options are to use either his pony cut 200 gram liner or his pony cut 250 gram medium turnout UNDER the heavyweight. To be honest using the medium TO under the heavy seems like the best option to me. Current forecast indicates he’d need the medium during the days so it would be convenient to just pop the heavy on and off for the overnight hours. His pony cut medium TO is a very good fit on him it’s just not big enough to go over the horse cut HW.
Open to thoughts about layering! Wwyd?