It is this time of the year when one moment it is a pleasant 16 degrees C and then, before you know it, the temperature plummets down to 11 degrees, accompanied by rain to make things more uncomfortable.
Where as most humans find this time very beautiful with the changing colours of the leaves, the misty mornings and the cosy times in front of crackling fires, for 'the crew' however, it is not so great.
I do attempt to plan my day in the early morning and part of this is to check with the met-office, again and again ... rugs on or rugs off ...
For example: yesterday late afternoon I got caught out by the weather. When I left the Farm it was fairly warm still and dry but while I was out it began to rain.
When I finally got back I was expecting 'the crew' to be in the stables where they can shelter. Not so! I went to fetch them - well, there was not much fetching to be done as they all came running up to me with that look: 'Just WHERE have YOU been - look at us we are WET!'. Some where shivering even.
As the heavy rain was to stay overnight, it was time to get them in to dry them out and the put the rugs on.
Normally, there are two separate stables available, each in theory with room for 2 horses. However, with 'Kid' being on rehab, there is now only one stable available.
I though about which 2 horses would be fine put together for drying/feeding/cleaning. The stable can be split into 2 smaller sections, offering fairly confined space for 2 horses but only IF they get along.
'Rose' is the most difficult of the lot; not because she is difficult to handle but because she tries to bite any horse nearby when in a confined area, she needed to be separated.
I put 'Madame' and 'Mr F' together but unfortunately had to leave 'Luke' outside. He also was the only one out of the four that was not shivering and seemed generally ok although hungry.
Eventually, after toweling/feeding/cleaning, all went back outside, with and without rug, depending on horse.
It is going to be more tricky over the next months - I will be hard-wired to the met office!
'Shifty' has got the right idea ...
Life is easy for some creatures ...
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