Below 30 degrees Winter Feeding
Night Feeding (horses in stalls)
1. Lock Max & Erma in with hay. Please feed blue string hay at night.
1. Lock Max & Erma in with hay. Please feed blue string hay at night.
2. Bring Razzle & James in center, re-latch rope around center gate using double clip.
3. Put Rock in his stall. Brown building stall facing road
4. Using rope on light switch left of 1st stall, put Levi, Shawnee, and Sunny in the 3 stall barn. Shut both top and bottom doors, latching both for night.
5. After 3 horses are out of shed paddock, put Solomon in other side of brown building (may need lead rope - one is kept hanging on his salt block holder in stall) and latch chain to prevent him from charging in the AM.
6. Go upstairs and throw blue string 1 bale + a flake or 2 down in large room. Split into 3 piles: 2 on left, 1 at back right side. Important to do this 1st before bringing in the last three.
8. Let Bud, Coach, & Luke in. Slide door close and hook back small gate to keep from blowing shut in AM
9. Using an orange string bale (day time feed), preload Bud, Coach & Luke shed. 1 scoop of grain placed in Bud's tub inside shed. Split bale in 3rds: 1 pile on left, middle, and right.
10. Preload left shed, 1 orange string bale, split into 4 piles, 2 each side, middle of each wall.
11. Turn off all outside lights, upstairs lights, close outside gates and doors, then return to inside barn, walk through inside rooms and latch sliding doors on both sides. Turn off lights and latch close doors.
12. If throwing hay for the week, stack hay on floor (25 each type) & below (filling two straight stalls), please use blue strings and orange string bales from left side (elevator side). Blue is stacked upper top. Reserve the hay on right side for now.