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Post by solomon on Jun 26, 2010 12:00:48 GMT
Not for us, we are going at 7.30am tomorrow!
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Post by fleabitten on Jun 26, 2010 19:18:06 GMT
How do you guage when is too hot?
Good luck at trailing yourself out of bed lol
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Post by racaille on Jun 26, 2010 20:36:17 GMT
Well, it's hot but I go out early in the morning or in the evening and stick to shady paths at a sedate pace. Poor old P, he hates his daily shower but when we come back he needs a hose off. He looks lovely and white and shiny afterwards .... until he rolls and then he's just brown  |
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Post by bonnyben on Jun 27, 2010 11:19:43 GMT
I don't know what you call them down south and in France (horseflies maybe?) but we are plaqued by clegs!!  They are vile useless creatures in the same category as wasps and jelly fish.  Have no worthy use in this world and have no business being here  (You can tell I am very relaxed about them can't you??)  Ben is out overnight in a fly rug, I got a cattle thing before I left G'side, it is desgned to keep flies off for 3 months. It's a sort of plastic token presumably impregnated with fly repellent. It goes through the cow's ear but nedless to say it's attached to his rug although some people plait them into the horse's mane. No idea if it works or not really because when he goes out he just ambles off with his pals and his head goes down...we tend not to put them out til it's cooler, about 8pm. Riding wise I am just coating him with deet and putting his fly mask on, it helps but is by no means perfick... Anyway' it's gonna start raining up here tomorrow guys, I am on holiday this week  - having a pone week.... |
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Post by fleabitten on Jun 27, 2010 13:18:16 GMT
bb we call them clegs too lol!
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Post by haffyfan on Jun 27, 2010 13:33:13 GMT
bonnyben I have been thinking about plaiting the cattle tags in...do they actually work at all?
Not had much time for riding again lately but had a very hot ride this morning...the only good thing was it was too hot for Murph to be silly as I very very nearly ate dirt on Thursday night during one of his 'silly five minutes'. I only didn't because he stopped bucking just as I apparantly announced 'okay I'm gone!' and lifted his head up and threw me back which allowed me to slither off his ears into the saddle again.
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Post by kitcat on Jun 27, 2010 16:58:18 GMT
BB we call them clegs too and I hate them with a passion.
Haffy, well done for staying on.
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Post by scattymare on Jun 28, 2010 11:07:33 GMT
I'm out at 6.30 in the morning. Beats the heat and flies and is lovely to watch bunnies and squiggles scurrying around everywhere before the world wakes up.
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Post by fleabitten on Jun 28, 2010 14:06:54 GMT
i thought sol was a good one going out at 7.30 scatty lol!!
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Post by maximum on Jun 29, 2010 21:43:10 GMT
not an issue here - its not that hot! not wet but just cloudy and not very sunny. boohoo.
LOATH clegs - and a pink horse seems to attract them!
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Post by bonnyben on Jun 30, 2010 9:23:48 GMT
bonnyben I have been thinking about plaiting the cattle tags in...do they actually work at all? Not had much time for riding again lately but had a very hot ride this morning...the only good thing was it was too hot for Murph to be silly as I very very nearly ate dirt on Thursday night during one of his 'silly five minutes'. I only didn't because he stopped bucking just as I apparantly announced 'okay I'm gone!' and lifted his head up and threw me back which allowed me to slither off his ears into the saddle again. Well done you!!! Monkey!! I think they do work haffy, to some degree anyway. The guys at the last yard did plait them into manes and thought they made a difference. Ben's is attched to the neck of his fly rug and he certainly seems comfortable enough when I put him out. It's hard to say just how good they are, but it isn't doing any harm. They come in packs of 10 I think and I paid £4 for the tag, very cheap if indeed it does help for 3 months!!!  |
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Post by racaille on Jun 30, 2010 19:02:17 GMT
not an issue here - its not that hot! not wet but just cloudy and not very sunny. boohoo. LOATH clegs - and a pink horse seems to attract them! Well I think white horses do too! P is plagued by taons (I think they are your clegs - horseflies about an inch long). I spray with my salad dressing and he's in a mask but by god they are vile things. |
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Post by racaille on Jun 30, 2010 19:04:08 GMT
...and it is too hot to ride at the moment. We're up towards 35C and it's sticky (unusually). It's nice in the morning at about 5.30am .....
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Post by FirenLady on Jun 30, 2010 20:07:09 GMT
Those Cleggs are nasty, saw them in the lake district but we don't get them here thankfully. I always ride early or late or sometimes both! Fire hates going out in the heat, he'd rather go out in the snow! Have given up schoolin Trav and am just hacking him in walk, he sweats up too quickly in this weather for schoolin. Followed by a lovely cold wash down.  |
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