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| Ok well I have had a super rough week(and its only tuesday!) A falling out at work has led to my needing to to move my horse away from his current location at work to a close family friends house. We are expecting rain HOPEFULLY this week. The problem is that this new pen is nice, maybe 20x35ft and about 6-6.5 ft tall, it has NO shelter. I cannot build a permanent cover but would there be a way to make a temporary cover for the winter. He will probably only be there a few months. |
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| When I moved from Montana to Oregon it was during winter and it always rained, andi was in the same situation, nice pen but no shelter so I bought one of those little plastic car ports and it did the trick!-
http://mobile.walmart.com/m/phoenix#ip/Caravan-Canopy-10x20-Carport...
it didn't have sides so I just made one from tarps, it was super redneck but my horses were warm and dry
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| Thats a great idea! My idea was to make some sort of pvc/tarp or light metal cover and fasten it to both sides of the fence but then I thought that it might not have enough support.
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Location: Great NW | Make sure to secure it with at least T-posts. the little pins they have for the legs are not enough to hold it down during a decent wind. once you have it set put in some hog fuel to lift them up out of hte wet. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | The1CowgirlsEnvy - 2013-11-26 10:42 PM
When I moved from Montana to Oregon it was during winter and it always rained, andi was in the same situation, nice pen but no shelter so I bought one of those little plastic car ports and it did the trick!-
http://mobile.walmart.com/m/phoenix#ip/Caravan-Canopy-10x20-Carport...
it didn't have sides so I just made one from tarps, it was super redneck but my horses were warm and dry
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | Put a water proof blanket on and your good to go. |
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| More important than a roof for your horse is a windbreak. Healthy horses can deal with cold, wet weather, but that cold wind is harder on them than snow and ice. |
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