The weather started to get cold and everyone started to get blankets put on at night. I was told this was to help slow our winter hair growing. Now, I think there is a reason we need thicker hair in the winter, dont you? Why would mom want our coats to slow down growing? One of the other horses told me that they get hot when they are ridden in the winter and it is difficult for them to cool down. If they have long hair then mom uses a noisy machine to clip their hair off. Not something I want to be done to me! I think I will let mom put my blanket on without walking away.
Here is a photo of us wearing our blankets in the snow. They do help to keep us warm and dry which I like.
This winter wasnt too bad, which is lucky for the other horses, because when it is really cold mom puts a neck cover on the horses too. Now those would have been great fun to play with. I would have tried to pull them off and throw them around the field. I like to whirl things around with my mouth and a neck cover is big and would have been a marvelous whirling toy. Oh well, maybe next winter.
