How's the Weather Where You Are?

Connie Bennett said:
Beautiful day today, but we are sliding into cold weather.

Predicted hard freeze Friday & Saturday nights.🥶🥶

My furnace hasn’t kicked on yet, but I fear that’s about to end.

Right now my Pit Bull is on my lap, keeping me warm. Her instructions are to stay there 😂😂
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We are about the same here as you are having , Connie. Poodle is almost always snuggled on my lap, but with the colder weather, he also wants me to cover him up with the little throw blanket when I cover up my lap and am in the recliner, so I have to make sure there is enough of one end to cover Poodle , too.
We are supposed to get that freeze this weekend , so that will probably be the end of the banana tree for this year.
 
Temps dropped 15 degrees from yesterday and it’s cloudy. That means it will start getting dark by 4:30 PM😡😡

Night Temps are supposed to be in the 20’s😡. I hate that for my senior horse. He has a blanket, but his 17H self won’t stand still and if he did, the Arab would rip it off him. I know that for fact. The Arab tried to untie him when the farrier was here last week🙄🙄. At least they can get in the barn…

The good news is the warmup that’s coming in a few days.
 
Connie Bennett said:
Temps dropped 15 degrees from yesterday and it’s cloudy. That means it will start getting dark by 4:30 PM😡😡

Night Temps are supposed to be in the 20’s😡. I hate that for my senior horse. He has a blanket, but his 17H self won’t stand still and if he did, the Arab would rip it off him. I know that for fact. The Arab tried to untie him when the farrier was here last week🙄🙄. At least they can get in the barn…

The good news is the warmup that’s coming in a few days.
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I have always been grateful that Jurin turns fluffy in the winter because he eats any blanket put on him.
 
Mary Stetler said:
I have always been grateful that Jurin turns fluffy in the winter because he eats any blanket put on him.
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Well, he’s out with no blanket. If the air stays still and we don’t get the rain we need, he should be ok. His problem is that he is so underweight. He is probably a low 3 on the Henneke Scale. The vet was here Tuesday to examine him, float his teeth, draw blood for a CBC, and give him an antibiotic for his runny left nostril; amazingly not tooth related. I feed this horse 50# of Triple Crown Complete every seven days; I mark the bag. The vet said to increase his Calf Manna up to 16 ounces daily. I gotta say @Mary Stetler , I’ve had a lot of horses and this fella is the hardest keeper of them all. And the CBC came back as everything being “within normal range”.
 
Connie Bennett said:
Well, he’s out with no blanket. If the air stays still and we don’t get the rain we need, he should be ok. His problem is that he is so underweight. He is probably a low 3 on the Henneke Scale. The vet was here Tuesday to examine him, float his teeth, draw blood for a CBC, and give him an antibiotic for his runny left nostril; amazingly not tooth related. I feed this horse 50# of Triple Crown Complete every seven days; I mark the bag. The vet said to increase his Calf Manna up to 16 ounces daily. I gotta say @Mary Stetler , I’ve had a lot of horses and this fella is the hardest keeper of them all. And the CBC came back as everything being “within normal range”.
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Have you tried beet pulp to help him gain weight ? You have to soak it overnight and mix it with other grain, but I have used it for underweight horses and ones that had trouble digesting regular horse grains. I mixed it with pig food sometimes and soaked the whole thing.
 
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