On 08/08/07, Nancy Sturm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In theirs, they have a carousel arrangement for saddles. Bridles hang on > the wall. I think they have the round colored ones from Dover Saddlery. > They're my favorite. They have a desk with phone, a microwave, a couch, > carpeting and a medicine cabinet. The blankets that are being used, hang > on racks, one on each stall door. Extras are stacked in the tack room in a > cupboard sort of like a giant linen closet. I used to have a refrigerator > in mine and a couch.
Maybe I should look through the Dover website. I want a little bar fridge in mine, just to store some bottled water. It's too far back to the house to get a drink of water. > Do you blanket your Icelandics? If you do, at what temperature and with > what kind of blanket? We blanket in the winter after a ride or drive if they happen to be sweaty AND if there is a wind. Sometimes they can roll in the snow and dry off enough, but I would rather just blanket them, pop them in the barn for a few hours and then I know they are dry. If it's late in the day, we just leave them in the barn overnight. We never use the horses if it's below -10 C. I know some do, but we prefer not to. We missed a clinic a few years ago because it was -23. The clinic itself was indoors, but we still had to haul to get there. If we had trouble or a flat tire or something...that's just too cold to deal with AND deal with horses at the same time... We've been experimenting and we've had synthetic blankets up to now. I just got a new wool cooler for Gusti last winter, but haven't had an opportunity to use it yet. Wool is supposed to be the best. Otherwise we never blanket. We had a blizzard this past March and the horses just went for the trees and stayed there for the day... Those big beautiful winter coats of their's are all they need.. Wanda
