Drizzle drizzle rain drops

It has been raining now for nearly 24 hours and it is still drizzling strong with no signs of a reprieve. The pasture horses are taking refuge under the cover of trees, remaining relatively un-soaked. The temperature did not drop nearly as low as it was predicted. This morning at 3:30am it was in the mid-50's. All of the "below 50" horses were blanketed.

The stall horses were towel dried and those needing blankets were tucked in. John and I went back out to the barn around 10:00pm and spent an hour added clean, dry shavings to everyone's stall before blanketing them. I figured they would want to roll and better and more comfortable if they got to roll in fluffy shavings.

The donkeys are released from their pasture every evening and last night they hid under the cover of the barn, munching the remaining round bale that we pulled into the barn. I left the shavings stall door open and pulled shavings down onto the mats for them. When Kurly is wet his hair curls - too cute!

Jedi, Ufir, and Molly were moved to pasture 4 across the way.
We still have plans to move Bodhi and Casanova into Pasture 5 with Magic, Dusty, and Tav. JW and Tie will likely be pastured together and in the evenings when JW is put away in his stall we may allow Tie to hang out in the barn aisle, so long as Kurly isn't too pushy with him.

We will be getting a new truck load of shavings very soon. When choosing where to purchase shavings my top priorities are high absorption, dust-free, kiln dried. The last batch of shavings was from a company called "The Shavings Bin", www.theshavingsbin.com. You can see a picture on their website of our delivery in August. These shavings were a 50/50 blended mix of "Shavings" and "Dust". The dust is actually just smaller, curled flakes. Although the bulky flakes makes it more challenging to clean stalls, it adds cushion for the horses' comfort, and that's our highest priority!

I highly recommend the following horse toys for Christmas. If you purchase a toy for your horse and would like me to refill it with treats on a regular basis, I would be happy to! Anything to enrich the life of your best friend.
Toys:
http://www.amazon.com/Amazing-Graze-Treat-Toy-Green/dp/B0006G56UM/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_2
I purchased mine from Drs Foster & Smith website

http://www.nose-it.com/
This one looks like fun! You can get it fro mebay for $29.99

If you have other Christmas ideas, share them here for everyone to see.

Stay dry and see you at the barn!