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| Ari |
Posted - 13 Jul 2013 : 2:44:18 PM
My lad hates to stay in the summer, just so glad he has no pink skin or allergies and is Mr cool in the heat otherwise he would be very stressed and nightmare at having to stay in for his own good.
Some of the native types and cobs on our yard are sweating stood in or out of the stable. I do feel for the neds struggling with the heat, sunburn on pink bits and sweet itch etc they are all needing a lot of tlc.
Not that I complaining about the weather, it has delivered the best crop of haylage for a long time, but I think the stressed parched grass will shoot up when we do get even a bit of rain and that will be a risk to the lami prone.
Fabulous weather and great very early morning rides
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| Sharea |
Posted - 15 Jul 2013 : 5:46:04 PM
Mine seem to be coping fine with the sun but the horse flies are horrendous, I've never seen so many. Sharea has been bitten on the teats and has really swollen poor girl, I've been treating with benzyl benzoate and the swelling has gone down slightly. It's such a shame as apart from how awful it must be for her we were entered for our first ever show together on Sunday and couldn't take part.  |
| Kharidian |
Posted - 15 Jul 2013 : 5:06:37 PM
Judith S - Roger also has a big pink muzzle and he also doesn't have sunburn at the moment. We have quite a lot of buttercups this year and I have found that he gets scabby in a combination of wet grass and sun - that's when I need industrial quantities of Sudocrem!
Caryn |
| Callisto |
Posted - 15 Jul 2013 : 4:58:16 PM
Have just returned from the EGB National Championships at Kings Forest, where temperatures were well into the 90's (deg F) on Saturday and not much better on Sunday. Amazing how the horses coped, particularly those in the 120 km race ride, which I was told was won at an average speed on over 21 kmph  . I am so full of admiration for Lily, we were part of the EGB South East team, and ok so we were only doing 64km (Novice) over 2 days, but she coped amazingly. Unfortunately she was entirely overcome by the high octane atmosphere in the vetting area on Saturday (all the international race riders zooming in surrounded by large numbers of crew running with them and throwing buckets of water on the horses), and decided that she would suddenly demonstrate her ability to snort and blow (and rear), and was only 2 heartbeats off elimination. However o the Sunday it was rather quieter without the race riders and she gained a grade 1 - exactly a week after her first ever grade 1 - such a star! I cannot believe how well she coped with the heat, we were starting mid-late morning so she got the full brunt of it, but loads of sloshing and drinking water offered at every opportunity and she passed the vet with flying colours. Two and a half hours in a warm box home, and this morning she is absolutely fine.
All of ours are in fly masks, and Lily is in a fly rug during the day as they make her life a misery, out 24/7, with plenty of shady trees and a field shelter available to them.
All I can say is that she copes with the heat better than me  |
| gossy |
Posted - 15 Jul 2013 : 2:54:41 PM
yes i agree mine seem fine in the heat, its just those blooming flies and horse flies at the moment!! i did do what another aliner suggested the other day though, i cut up apples/carrots and other fruit and veg, put in buckets and filled with water put them in my chest freezer(luckily have a draw freezer to put frozen food in) left over night then took them down the field in the morning and afternoon, they loved it!! |
| joanna_piana |
Posted - 15 Jul 2013 : 12:53:04 PM
Heat doesn't seem to bother mine but the flies where Ishara is are the worst I have seen ever! I've actually resorted to a fly rug they are so bad and now she happily stays out all day but before it was the flies that were making her want to come in rather than the heat. Mark Todd do a really nice light weight fly rug which is mainly cotton so they aren't getting hot in them at all. The flies where Beau is aren't bad at all and the herd have plenty of shelter so no problems with the heat there. I'm loving it |
| kath |
Posted - 15 Jul 2013 : 12:33:16 PM
Ours arent really any different from normal, but we've not had the sky high temperatures you have in the south.
They are in at night all year round anyway so nothing has changed there and they're grazing happily in the field. They all wear fly masks all summer anyway, sensitive little chestnuts - i actually think our flies arent too bad this year (the midges are a different matter1).
JudithS, my old lad gets dreadful buttercup burn - he has a really pink nose - he wears a fly mask that covers his nose too, and has sudocrem on any sores he gets (which he hates!)
Gus had last week off but competed at the weekend, we just took it easy but the ground is very hard at the moment :-/ |
| glo |
Posted - 14 Jul 2013 : 7:52:40 PM
Mine are out most of the time, I do bring them in at 2ish for feeding and resting out of the sun and fly's. we have one pink horse and three pink noses no sunburn and I don't put anything on , the only time I did my mares nose was so sore for weeks!
Vik re your cut: I have a yearling the jumped fence once and cut his chest about 6in long and 4 in wide and it hung down in a big flap, had it stitched but was told it would probably brake open (it did) it was a horrible mess I was advised to put Cut+Heal on it twice a day and leave the horse out it healed in about 3 months and only had a very thin 3in scar. |
| Kes |
Posted - 14 Jul 2013 : 11:58:05 AM
Kes is out 24/7 now, he'll only come in if it rains, this is the first time I've had to use suncream, hes got a pink patch inbetween his nostrils that seemed to need it.
Luckily hes at a yard on a hill so we get both sea breezes and winds off the South Downs which is nice in the strong sunshine. |
| TAE |
Posted - 14 Jul 2013 : 08:06:52 AM
My boys seem to have it sussed.
They are out 24/7 with a shelter.
They graze in the morning and evening but if I go down during the day they're normally having a siesta in the barn when it's hot. Such a hard life. |
| FullCircle |
Posted - 14 Jul 2013 : 07:05:30 AM
Is it not the combination of the two, sun AND buttercups? It was my (perhaps mis)understanding that the buttercup consumption makes them photosensitive and therefore makes them burn easily? |
| debs |
Posted - 14 Jul 2013 : 12:10:49 AM
Buttercups worse than sun for pink noses... |
| Pasch |
Posted - 13 Jul 2013 : 11:35:56 PM
Here in the tropics we have average temperatures of 30 to 35 degrees from middle of June to beginning of September,with minimum temps rarely dropping below 20 at night and hot spells from now to end of August when we can reach 40 degrees.
Horses are just used to it,you can often see them in full sun even if they have shadow.In the really hot days they do sweat a lot especially if it's humid and no wind,in which case I give them long cold showers,only time they like it!Riding is done early morning or late afternoon of course.Not many horseflies at the yard but many flies,mine live in fly masks as otherwise they get runny enflamed eyes!Many horseflies however when out hacking but the permethrine fly repellent works quite well.
Showers again after riding as they come back sweaty even if just walking.They are much calmer than in cold weather! |
| sab2 |
Posted - 13 Jul 2013 : 9:01:05 PM
We had problem a few weeks ago with burnt noses but since we cut the fields their noses have been a lot better so mine must of been buttercups, they have been dreadful this year. Mine are hating this weather, i got two new poorly ones arrived last sunday and the worst one has lost weight, which is something she cannot afford to do, they have spent a lot of time pacing round and the flies are awful, its not that we have no grass as we have loads , i am feeding the thin ones twice a day and putting garlic in to try and help with flies, also spraying as often as i can and using fly rugs, praying for cooler days and rain up my way so that they get a rest, if she drops any more weight i shall have to bring her in , they do have a large shed in the field but not often in it, but my sheep love the shed and are often in it |
| Judith S |
Posted - 13 Jul 2013 : 8:45:53 PM
Wonder if its buttercups.... as the field she was on had not many..... & new field of today, but for haylage has none now..... |
| Judith S |
Posted - 13 Jul 2013 : 8:43:05 PM
One thing I have noticed this time is my Manon, she of the BIG pink nose & nostrils... has no sunburn at all, for the first time since we bought her a few years ago... when I had to use a UV nose net on her....
One would think & expect horrible sunburn this time..... but as yet....nothing!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Quarabian |
Posted - 13 Jul 2013 : 7:47:43 PM
Mine are asking to come in about 10 am. They are happy to stay in all day untilabout now. I have just come back from moving sheep with my dogs and I have been eaten by the dratted flies. So i guess they will wait for another hour until turnout.
Lovely to see them sleeping in the field at 6am. Wish I'd had my camera. |
| Judith S |
Posted - 13 Jul 2013 : 7:37:00 PM
This year is the first for a very long time I have brought neds in daytime....
I am not into molly coddling but needs must! I think my livery ladies think I am a cruel horse mother at times....
their horses are sooooooo pampered!!! |
| rosie |
Posted - 13 Jul 2013 : 6:44:25 PM
I've owned horse for 30 years now, and today was the first time EVER that I have to use a fly mask.
One of my horses is not coping at all well with this heat. The flies are annoying his eyes something terribly. I prefer to leave horses out 24/7 as much as possible but he had to come in for 24 hrs and is now back out with his fly mask on, eye drops and also had to put him on bute for a few days to help with the inflammation.
The others are coping ok up to now? Think I'll move them to another field soon and see if that helps? |
| Ari |
Posted - 13 Jul 2013 : 6:02:35 PM
So agree with the Molly coddle thing, ok if a horse has allergies, sun burn etc, but its only the horse industry that is promoting fly rugs and useless fly spray.
If Arabs can't cope with heat what ned can? |
| FullCircle |
Posted - 13 Jul 2013 : 5:48:17 PM
My boy is living out for the first time in three years that I've had him. He's loving it - he looks great - his weight is good and he's really happy to work. I ride early enough in the mornings that he's not struggling too badly, but I'm not molly-coddling him. I think that's been my problem the past three years - too much molly coddle!  |
| Judith S |
Posted - 13 Jul 2013 : 5:14:37 PM
Ari, I use the bright yellow stuff as well on minor cuts etc, it does work very well |
| Judith S |
Posted - 13 Jul 2013 : 5:13:31 PM
Am bringing in 5 of mine during the day, the 6 DIY liveries are also in during the day. The rest of mine are out 24/7, with field shelters & a breeze (it does help living 900ft up a Welsh hill). Normally we don't have much of a fly problem, but this time the horse flies are abso awful! Having to buy fly repellent for the first time since we moved here 5 yrs ago. |
| Vik1 |
Posted - 13 Jul 2013 : 4:56:37 PM
Thanks...we'll get there. I am feeling more positive about it all. Was just so gutted when it happened. Once its had the debridement I think it will improve in no time. |
| Ari |
Posted - 13 Jul 2013 : 4:35:26 PM
Flamazine is magic, only ever used it on infected mud fever and it was fabulous. Had the debridement scenario a few years back bit it's amazing how the wound improves afterwards.
Wish you all the best
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| Vik1 |
Posted - 13 Jul 2013 : 4:26:50 PM
Some of the cut is now looking quite good, some not so. Flamazine has got some of the black off with healthy pink tissue underneath. Its the bit that exposes fascia that worries me more. The bottom edge is necrotic, the flap of skin at top needs cut off and in the middle its gone sloughy. The main sore bit is now roughly 5cm across by 3 1/2 top to bottom. Its a bit like a grade 3 pressure ulcer. Got vet coming at beginning of week for debridement. Was going to keep her in til then and see what they say. Ive been walking her out in hand 2x daily and letting her graze. She wants out but she tolerates box rest very well....shes had enough practice over the years! |
