Does This Blanket Make My BELLY Look BIG?

Brrrrrrrr!
We have been experiencing an artic winter blast in our little corner of PA .
When the temps go below 20 degrees and the wicked winter wind comes calling,
we blanket our horses at night.

Think of it as horsey pj's.

Horses grow thick winter coats that feel nice and snuggly warm when you press your hands deep  into their fur. Their hayburning bellies also generate heat by
fermentation, like a furnace. They are amazingly hardy animals in cold weather.

So while they are perfectly adapted to cold weather with lots of hay to munch and proper shelter... We as doting horsey parents, feel better knowing they have a little "extra" cover to keep them toasty warm through the night. They are probably thinking....      

........  Silly humans!

Meet Buddy, our driving pony sporting his purple and black horse jammies.

Cute, huh?

This year, however I noticed that our horses are a little more
"rotund" or "full figured."



Ok, they are fat.    See the little bit of belly hanging out of the blanket?


But wait, then there is
Frosty.

Aptly named by the
rescue we adopted
him from, he is a
big boy who wears
a very big 100 inch



blanket that we had specially made a few years ago.

Although last year, his tummy wasn't prominently poking out the bottom of his

jammies either.

Oh well, as long as they are happy and healthy (which they are) that's all that matters. But we may have to cut back on some of their equine yum yums, peppermints and horse cookies. :o)

Thanks for stopping by!