[RC] Conditioning, Sweat and -40 weather - Lysane Cree
I have also found that a wool cooler works best for cooling a horse in cold weather. My horse was always pastured outside in the winter also, and would get put back outside once he was cooled down. He often would go and roll in the snow and get full of snow all over himself after I had worked so hard to get him dry! The most important is getting the body temperature down, getting him 100% dry is a little less important. On cold and windy days then I would work harder at getting him dry, or at least not wet next to the skin. The barn was pretty cold itself, so once my horse was cool then I would remove the cooler(s), let his body adjust a bit to the `'room temperature` (he would get nice and toasty under the cooler most of the time, even if his fur was not completely dry) and then put him out in the pasture.
Lysane
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