What beautiful photos! I love seeing snow.
Driving Discussion 2024
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I see Phillippe is wearing a blanket. You spoil that sweet guy!
Oh, Canadian winters are no place for wee donkeys. They need serious shelter and/or blanketing. They are just not designed for the weather we get. And yes, he's spoiled...
Dreams of Ashes
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a legit excuse to spoil him and try fun blankets.Oh, Canadian winters are no place for wee donkeys. They need serious shelter and/or blanketing. They are just not designed for the weather we get. And yes, he's spoiled...
@Dreams of Ashes are you becoming one of my enablers??? I mean, welcome to the club!!!
Ok crew, where would you go for an instructional driving vacation?
HersheyMint
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@HersheyMint you're more than welcome to come up and visit my motley crew, but I would strongly encourage you to not come in February...
Just a few days shy of a full month since his last drive and Mr. Falcor was just lovely today!!
I put the skis on his cart and out we went. Like @Edelweiss says, hackneys seem to get a bit feral, Falcor wasn’t sure he should be caught when I went in, but it didn’t take him long to come around. I have cookies after all!
We had a good walk in the field but there’s no path broke for us, so we went up to the road instead. Some rocks through the snow made noise on our skis but he handled it just fine. And this time he was happy to trot along. We trotted to both of our closest neighbours’ driveways, further on the road than we’d ever been before!! Such a good and brave, happy pony!!
I put the skis on his cart and out we went. Like @Edelweiss says, hackneys seem to get a bit feral, Falcor wasn’t sure he should be caught when I went in, but it didn’t take him long to come around. I have cookies after all!
We had a good walk in the field but there’s no path broke for us, so we went up to the road instead. Some rocks through the snow made noise on our skis but he handled it just fine. And this time he was happy to trot along. We trotted to both of our closest neighbours’ driveways, further on the road than we’d ever been before!! Such a good and brave, happy pony!!
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Your area looks pretty, also cold.
Good for Falcor
@HersheyMint it truly is the great white north! It's cold today but will warm up to right around the freezing mark for Christmas.
That is good to hear! Glad I am not alone with the feral tendency. I'm hoping mine will be the same way once we finally get to start driving again! I did find out that he is a sucker for apples though. Normally he won't let me catch him until every other horse has been brought into the barn, unless I have an apple. Then the other horses better wait their turn!
I have started to wish I had a sleigh, but it would hardly get any use here, even though it is much more snow than farther south! Do you do anything special for their hooves in the winter? I am not bothered by the cold here because it is not humid but I keep the horses in when it snows. Not that they aren't used to snow, but the steep hills can be very slick and I worry about the footing, especially with how much they love to run.
(Not one of the heavier snows)
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