If you're anything like me, winter is your least-favorite season. It's cold and there are very little daylight hours. Both those things add up to very little riding time.Plus, feeding and watering seem to take twice as long when you're trudging through the snow, or having to chip ice out of a tank because your tank heater has malfunctioned.
It doesn't really matter if we like it or not, though--winter is coming. The best we can do, short of all moving south, is to prepare. The Horse recently did a great article on preparing for winter weather.Earlier this year I also wrote a post on my other blog about the importance of making sure that our horses have fresh water all winter long.
It's time to increase your horse's feed, make sure they are in optimal health, make sure they're wormed (and I'll add clean the manure out of your pens/pastures and scrape those bot eggs off your horse's legs, or worming doesn't do as much good), get those shelters and blankets all ready, get all your feed stocked up, and test your tank heaters.Then go inside, make sure you've got plenty of hot cocoa on hand, hunker down and pray for spring!
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