The best advice I can give to anyone is not to put the horses in every night. I've seen several times how good horses are ruined by "Babying" them too much. I'm not saying you would do that, but horses do very well in a natural environment. We RARELY put ours in and when we do it is only during nasty weather, bad rainy, or bad wind. They have trees and a run in shed outside for the small stuff. Since we leave them out, it eliminates cleaning of the stalls for the most part and we never have to blanket our guys.
Even though our horses will go in the barn, they don't really like it and would rather be outside any day. My friend had a horse who was put in all the time and it got to the point where it was skittish to everything. It was never fun to ride him! He also ALWAYS wanted to be inside and had a poor coat and needed to be blanketed in the winter, and even on cool summer days for that matter.
In the wild, horses live on plains where they have very little protection. What we give them is heaven compared to what they would have if they were wild.
Even though our horses will go in the barn, they don't really like it and would rather be outside any day. My friend had a horse who was put in all the time and it got to the point where it was skittish to everything. It was never fun to ride him! He also ALWAYS wanted to be inside and had a poor coat and needed to be blanketed in the winter, and even on cool summer days for that matter.
In the wild, horses live on plains where they have very little protection. What we give them is heaven compared to what they would have if they were wild.