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Hey y'all!
Soo...I'm making the plunge and getting a horse of my own. I'm in school right now doing horse training (all natural methods) and I love what I'm learning in school, but I desperately want to have my own horse to explore the woods around me and ride in my free time to practice what i'm learning in school. Anyways, my roommate has her horse here in a 9 acre pasture with a small 2 stall barn/shelter. A good friend of mine has a small arabian that she cannot keep, but he is great. 7 years old, total sweetie! She would like me to have him, but he's down in Tucson AZ and I'm living in CA near Tahoe. I'd like to bring him up here in december, but I'm afraid that it is too severe of a climate change. He is in northern arizona on pasture right now until late october, so he's roughing it already and probably building a winter coat. I could blanket him at night here too. Any thoughts? Am I pushing it too quickly? I don't want to risk his health. Thanks a bunch!
Calico
Soo...I'm making the plunge and getting a horse of my own. I'm in school right now doing horse training (all natural methods) and I love what I'm learning in school, but I desperately want to have my own horse to explore the woods around me and ride in my free time to practice what i'm learning in school. Anyways, my roommate has her horse here in a 9 acre pasture with a small 2 stall barn/shelter. A good friend of mine has a small arabian that she cannot keep, but he is great. 7 years old, total sweetie! She would like me to have him, but he's down in Tucson AZ and I'm living in CA near Tahoe. I'd like to bring him up here in december, but I'm afraid that it is too severe of a climate change. He is in northern arizona on pasture right now until late october, so he's roughing it already and probably building a winter coat. I could blanket him at night here too. Any thoughts? Am I pushing it too quickly? I don't want to risk his health. Thanks a bunch!
Calico
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Re: Safe to move in winter?
Tue, September 16, 2008 - 10:10 AMYes, blanket him! Well, don't have him blanketed down here in Tucson if he can stand it, so he'll grow at least a little bit of a coat. Do you know how he handles the winters here? Some horses always seem to run hot or cold--a friend cannot but anything on her warmblood in our Tucson winters or he sweats, while I've caught my mare out shivering in 50 degree weather.
A friend of mine brought her thoroughbred from Tucson to western Mass. in Sept. (also for school). That first winter we found her shivering in her stall in January--her winter blankets just didn't cut it. But, piling more blankets on and keeping her moving warmed her back up. Basically, what we'd normally blanket a horse with in our area, plus one more seemed to handle her. The next winter she faired much better.
