You know, these horses have been in the barn most of the day. It wasn't even that bad out. They just like it in there. We had to kick them out this afternoon so they'd move around a little :~)
It's just so muddy around the paddock that once they slog through it to come in they're reluctant to go back out :~\ I can't wait till spring !
We went for a 'walk' today, we'd like to start doing that again, I'd really like to lose weight this spring. We went 4 times around the pasture and I think Beaker figured for us that was a mile. When we do that a few more times, I'd like to pick a nice day and go up to the trailhead we went to the second day and walk down to the river and back. No horses, it's still closed to horses. It's only about a mile, but there's that big hill.
I can't wait for spring either. We're pretty muddy around here too, probably not as bad as you tho.
Walking is good, especially in the woods:). I walked alot back up in our woods, but have changed, because of the mud to walking up our road to the cul de sac and back, that's about a mile. That's actually a harder walk then the woods walk tho, because there are a lot more hills.
You will need to take some pictures when you go. Different prespective:)
Becky
I've been thinking about what you said about feeding the hay at night...I think even with the square bales that would be better. The night time is the longest stretch they have to go with nothing, so rather then cram feeding hay in between their regular feedings, I'm going to just make their regular feedings closer together, 8, 12, 4, then when I normally would go out to feed the last feeding, I'll throw them several blocks of hay. That will really be good for them when it's really cold....
What do you think?
Becky