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joanna_piana
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United Kingdom
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 Posted - 15 Jul 2013 : 12:53:04 PM
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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  |
      
Harthall Rashida RIP, Binley Ishara, Bouchan
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gossy
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England
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Posted - 15 Jul 2013 : 2:54:41 PM
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| 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!! |
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Callisto
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Posted - 15 Jul 2013 : 4:58:16 PM
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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 |
  Zahkira (GR Amaretto x Taffetta)
Linda
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Kharidian
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England
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Posted - 15 Jul 2013 : 5:06:37 PM
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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!
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Kharidian (Prince Sadik x Khiri)........ Alkara Cassino (H Tobago x Rose Aboud)
aka "Roger".................................... aka "Chips"
     
The first image is from an original painting by Pat Shorto.
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Sharea
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 15 Jul 2013 : 5:46:04 PM
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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.  |
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How are yours coping with the weather?
