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Location: Arkansas | Yall are crazy to live where it gets that cold! I moved from Texas to Arkansas 2 years ago and I am about to die with this cold weather!! The low is supposed to be 13 degrees sunday night and I'm freaking out about that! I can't even imagine what -30 feels like.... I need to fly south for the winter! |
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Location: Centerville, TN | It sounds delish !!!! How do you make it? |
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Location: Montana | Mcque - 2014-01-03 7:44 PM What is Kuchen? 
Oh, I'm probably a mean horsey mommy, but my horse gets to brave the cold herself. She gets plenty of hay, though. Her blanket is called a natural winter coat and a nice layer of fat. :) I do say an extra prayer for her well being though, while I try to stay in the house when I don't have to shovel snow.
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Mimi barrel racer - 2014-01-03 9:52 PM It sounds delish !!!! How do you make it?
A lot of Grandma's recipe is hard to follow unless you understand how she did things. LOL Here's a link to a recipe very similar from some ladies that make kuchen to sell and ship out all over. Its nummy-licious. The picture they show on this page looks really thin compared to mine. I punched my dough down 3 different times today instead of twice like the recipe says since I had to go outside for some chores. Mine raised quite a bit because of it so my crust got a little thick. For the pans I use the disposable pie tins. I wash them up and keep using them. THey were handed down to me from my grandma. (o:
http://southdakotamagazine.com/cooking-kuchen |
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Location: ohio-in my own little world with pretty ponies :) | Mine are in the barn. They aren't blanketed. I go out frequently to make sure their water doesn't freeze. Most times it won't but with the below zero temps were having they sometimes do. I say as long as they have a place to eat and get water and get out away from the weather then they should be fine.
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Location: ND | CYA Ranch - 2014-01-03 7:06 AM Our high on Monday is predicting -15 actual air temp with high winds. The lows will be -30's. I'll have mine in the barn. Everyone has their own feelings and opinions on this. I choose to baby mine. The wind is the killer. I hate the wind. I only have 9 horses so I have stalls for everyone.
Same here.....today we had 40 degrees & rain early this evening followed by a nice blizzard where we couldn't see across the yard. Sunday we have a HIGH of -20 with 30+ mph winds. It's going to be flat out ugly. I've got 9 in the barn, all the young & old ones. And The 5 others are in a corral with pretty good wind protection & heavy blankets. Everyone gets LOTS of hay. Hardest part for me is keeping water to everyone in the barn as the buckets freeze up so dang fast. |
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Location: Wisconsin | Mine are all in the barn in stalls. I let them run in the indoor arena 2 at a time for an hour or so. This is fricken ridiculous!! I feel so bad for some of the Amish horses around here standing up against the barns and not eating ANYTHING extra and they are already skinny, makes me so mad |
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Location: South Dakota | Brrlracengirl - 2014-01-03 9:37 PM
Yall are crazy to live where it gets that cold! I moved from Texas to Arkansas 2 years ago and I am about to die with this cold weather!! The low is supposed to be 13 degrees sunday night and I'm freaking out about that! I can't even imagine what -30 feels like.... I need to fly south for the winter!
We are crazy to live here and yet I can't imagine living anywhere else. Of course by tomorrow night I might be totally ready to move south! I always wondered what it would be like to live somewhere where you don't really have winter. |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | SaraJean - 2014-01-03 10:13 PM CYA Ranch - 2014-01-03 7:06 AM Our high on Monday is predicting -15 actual air temp with high winds. The lows will be -30's. I'll have mine in the barn. Everyone has their own feelings and opinions on this. I choose to baby mine. The wind is the killer. I hate the wind. I only have 9 horses so I have stalls for everyone. Same here.....today we had 40 degrees & rain early this evening followed by a nice blizzard where we couldn't see across the yard. Sunday we have a HIGH of -20 with 30+ mph winds. It's going to be flat out ugly. I've got 9 in the barn, all the young & old ones. And The 5 others are in a corral with pretty good wind protection & heavy blankets. Everyone gets LOTS of hay. Hardest part for me is keeping water to everyone in the barn as the buckets freeze up so dang fast.
An hour or so ago I walked by the thermometer and it said 38! I thought it was broke so I went outside to check and it was beautiful. The snow was melting and water was running off the roofs. Sadly the wind is switching and here comes the nastiness. We'll have ice covering everything along with the snow/wind/cold. Be careful everyone and stay safe.  |
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Location: ND | CYA Ranch - 2014-01-03 9:24 PM SaraJean - 2014-01-03 10:13 PM CYA Ranch - 2014-01-03 7:06 AM Our high on Monday is predicting -15 actual air temp with high winds. The lows will be -30's. I'll have mine in the barn. Everyone has their own feelings and opinions on this. I choose to baby mine. The wind is the killer. I hate the wind. I only have 9 horses so I have stalls for everyone. Same here.....today we had 40 degrees & rain early this evening followed by a nice blizzard where we couldn't see across the yard. Sunday we have a HIGH of -20 with 30+ mph winds. It's going to be flat out ugly. I've got 9 in the barn, all the young & old ones. And The 5 others are in a corral with pretty good wind protection & heavy blankets. Everyone gets LOTS of hay. Hardest part for me is keeping water to everyone in the barn as the buckets freeze up so dang fast.
That's how it was here all day, it was 39 when I woke up this morning, did chores in a sweatshirt! I honestly thing the temperature swings we've been having are harder on both us and the animals than just the cold. 60-70 degree temp changes almost over night are flat hard to handle. |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | SaraJean - 2014-01-03 10:38 PM CYA Ranch - 2014-01-03 9:24 PM SaraJean - 2014-01-03 10:13 PM CYA Ranch - 2014-01-03 7:06 AM Our high on Monday is predicting -15 actual air temp with high winds. The lows will be -30's. I'll have mine in the barn. Everyone has their own feelings and opinions on this. I choose to baby mine. The wind is the killer. I hate the wind. I only have 9 horses so I have stalls for everyone. Same here.....today we had 40 degrees & rain early this evening followed by a nice blizzard where we couldn't see across the yard. Sunday we have a HIGH of -20 with 30+ mph winds. It's going to be flat out ugly. I've got 9 in the barn, all the young & old ones. And The 5 others are in a corral with pretty good wind protection & heavy blankets. Everyone gets LOTS of hay. Hardest part for me is keeping water to everyone in the barn as the buckets freeze up so dang fast.
The temp change is what drives me insane. We weren't very warm until tonight. I spent a lot of time outside today cleaning the lots and yard/driveway with the tractor and feeding more hay bales. It was nicer than what its been but still had coveralls on. sigh......I should have taken my bff up on her suggestion of Arizona. |
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Location: PA | Goodness I don't know how you guys do it! I was on stall 3 of 5 tonight and was about in tears my hands hurt so bad and were freezing (That was with 2 nylon gloves and a insulated heavy winter glove). I cheated the next two stalls and got the horses in and myself inside on the heater. Our usual is to put the horses in over night they are put in at about 9 o clock pm and out at 10am so they are inside when it's coldest. They also go in when there is alot of precipitation or wind. Then they are turned out during the daytime if its not too ugly. I'd probably leave them out more if they had a roundbale but they are fed morning and night only so they are unable to stand around eating all day. When they are turned out only one wears a blanket and that is my thin skinned mare who has always been sensitive to everything. I take it off when she's in except for these past night where it has been down to -6 wind chill, 6 without. Averagely it is in the 20s or atleast teens overnight. The horses were begging to be put in tonight.
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