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Merry Christmas and Happy New Years everyone.

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Merry Christmas to all, and I hope the new year brings health and happiness to all.

Seasons Greetings. Rocky, Robbin(Demi),Emma, and Uno!

Merry Christmas from Obie!

Merry Christmas, Literiding, and to all of you!

Merry Christmas!

Snow Angels

Love the snow pics! Warm and dry here
Merry Christmas!

And my contribution, this was floating around face book:

Happy Holidays and Warmest Wishes for the New Year!

Not the best quality, but the red head with the green halter is looking for Christmas carrots

Piedmont, I love your picture. Your grey horse just sparkles against the green grass.

Love the seasonal photos. Very nice snow angel action KoolKat Paula, Emi was "extra sparkly" that day as half of her barn was packing up for Florida for the season. She was a bit wound up and on her toes!

Demi, I have to say that Rocky is gorgeous!

Merry Christmas! It was a cold one here, and still is! We are in a deep freeze for the next few days with highs of -11°F with a wind chill to make it fee like -31°F. Friday, they are forecasting a high of -18°F with a wind chill of -38°F. The low for Friday night is forecasted to be -35°F (without the wind chill).

Christmas Day it was -41°F with the wind chill and you could tell by my face. This was taken Christmas morning after I fed all my guys their Christmas treats. Tuddy was not to keen on picture taking, he wanted more treats. LOL! As long as you kept moving, it was alright, but by the time we had to feed the cows, I had had enough! I wanted my Christmas dinner! LOL!

Teddy, I cannot image 41 below zero! Where in Canada are you?

PaulaO wrote:Teddy, I cannot image 41 below zero! Where in Canada are you?

I am just 20 miles north east of Regina, Saskatchewan. Southern part of the province.

It is currently -21°F with a wind chill of -39°F. Today's high is -6°F with -30°F wind.

Tomorrow is a high of -17 with a low of -33, and Saturday is a high of -24 and low of -29. All °F, no idea what the wind chill will be. My horses are troopers, they have a 1200lbs round bale to park in front of and I have my mini donkeys in the barn with blankets on and a heat lamp above them. I have only been adding straw over top their bedding as the manure heats and I will go in there, and the pair of them will be laying down on the warm bedding all snuggled up. I always try and get my phone out fast to grab a picture, but as soon as they hear me, they are up braying for grain.

I always thought SK had a mild climate. I imagine fields of wheat rippling in the sun. I only know SK from the Farley Mowat books and as a kid wanted to live there. But not with -41 windchills.

Tuddy wrote:

Tomorrow is a high of -17 with a low of -33, and Saturday is a high of -24 and low of -29. All °F, no idea what the wind chill will be.

I don't care all that much about wind chills because who stands out in the wind when it's this cold? But -24F is seriously cold even out of the wind! We're only supposed to get down to about -14 at night, which is plenty cold enough thank you, but the horses don't seem to care other than that they stay out of the wind and may eat more hay. Hard to say because they're busy burrowing into the round bales to get to the best of it, and will then pee and poop on what they pulled out. So they're only getting free access until this cold snap is over, and then they're going to start cleaning up more of it before they get more.

I find it unbelievable how wasteful horses are when they have free access to hay. You'd think after all these years they'd figure out that if they pee or poop on it they're not going to want to eat it later, but for some reason they just can't seem to make that connection.

Calgary was definitely the coldest place I ever lived but was the best place to have a horse.

kande50 wrote:I find it unbelievable how wasteful horses are when they have free access to hay. You'd think after all these years they'd figure out that if they pee or poop on it they're not going to want to eat it later, but for some reason they just can't seem to make that connection.