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Location: Kentucky | Fairweather - 2014-04-24 11:15 PM
I usually start night time turnout this time of year. Unless it get 98 or above, I don't keep fans on them. One, I don't like leaving with something electric plugged in at my barn. Two, I feel like keeping a fan on them all the time makes them a little less hardy. Mine do seem to handle the heat better than a lot of show horses that we're around. If you think about it, if you haul out to a show during the day you can't keep a fan on them while they're tied out in the parking lot.
It does seem like they get more fly bites, etc while they're out during the day during the summer months. So that's one advantage to the night time turnout.
The only bad side that I see is that when it storms really bad in the middle of the night..... I've gone out many, many times in middle of the night in my nightgown chasing horses while it's lightening trying to get them in. 
Mine are spoiled broodmares, so they will have fans on them, lol. |
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 On the Countdown
Posts: 2934
Location: Texas | Mine stay up in the summer and I am in HOT and HUMID southeast Texas. They have fans, a mister on them, it is in front of fans so it will blow that is turned on about a hour or so a day and it helps tremendously (I am usually home during th day in the summer), and they flies are off them. My old horse will stand in the barn even if I don't leave her up she LOVES her fan. I have 3 box fans in the top of the barn, 2 box fans in the stalls about at their height, and one big fan hung up in another stall. I haven't started stalling yet, will in a couple of weeks however. |
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 Accident Prone
Posts: 22277
Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I keep fans on in the barn, it has tons of airflow even without the fans, and it's insulated, so pretty nice in there. I keep my competition horses up, but the others come and go as they want. I want the babies to learn to take care of themselves, and the old guy does better if he can move around more. When it's hot, they mostly are inside in the middle of the day. |
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 Extreme Veteran
Posts: 383
Location: Sweet Home Alabama | Mine do during Summer with fans, of course. When I don't, they just stand at the fence, sweating, swishing their tails, & stomp at the flies (I spray them with Pyranha but I guess they sweat it off). Also I have 2 whose noses can get really bad sunburned. I usually don't get them up until 10am or 11am, when it gets really HOT! but yea, they seem to like standing/laying in a cool stall munching on hay rather than being bothered by flies in the 100° heat |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 1131
| My mare gets two fans when she is stalled, because she is spoiled rotten and likes to stand in front of one while the other blows on her side. We would leave her pasture door open, but she wouldn't go out there. Now she is outside so no fan for her now. It was hard for her at first. But she has adjusted nicely. We keep her fly sprayed so that helps. |
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 Elite Veteran
Posts: 974
Location: USA | My mare will pace and pace in her stall - she'd rather be out in the pasture in the heat sweating and stomping flies then in a nice cushioned stall with two fans blowing on her and all the hay she wants. She's weird. I have no other explanation.  |
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Expert
Posts: 1226
| We stall during the day and turn out at night. Also have fans in alleyway. When it's a 117 any air flow helps. |
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 1D Lawn Mower
Posts: 1417
Location: Southeast, Texas | I'm in Southeast Texas as well, and it gets plum miserable here in the heat of the day. It's so humid you could drown standing in the shade!! Okay, maybe not.. but you get the point! I haven't pulled mine in yet but will stall during the day and turn out at night as well. They will have fans, I like two per stall. My anhidrosis mare will have a small window unit and two fans in her "cave." The ones that stay out don't seem to mind it, but then again that's all they know! [= I like them in, they like to be in (especially my poor non sweater,) my husband.. He believes I'm nuts and just like to pay higher electric bills. |
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  You just got to get mean and mean it.
Location: Arkansas | wyoming barrel racer - 2014-04-24 2:11 PM CYA Ranch - 2014-04-24 12:32 PM When we get the real hot humid days with no breeze and tons of flies and mosquitos I put mine in the barn. They all have fans in there and better than the sun baking them and stomping flies. Hard on their feet/shoeing plus they lose weight. Yes I think they are happy as clams. 
If you have electrity in your barn, you can fasten a box fan in front of each stalls. They're about $13-15 each at most stores. We have one in front of every stall. |
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 Famous for Not Complaining
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Location: Broxton, Ga | Mine are stalled year round in during the day..............out at night.............fans on during the summer months.......... |
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