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Jody, Chris here from kansas. I leave them out. My horses don't have a barn anyway. They do have run in sheds. They usually choose to stay out.

 

I can pen in my stallion in a corral with a shed. One night last year, I left him out and a big storm blew up. I worried like heck that I hadn't put him in his pen. But the next morning, I ws glad I left him out.. the wind had crumpled the shed roof and uprooted two support poles! He could have been hurt being inside.

 

chris

Jody Rogers-Buttram <dragnin100@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello all,

 

I was just wondering, how many of you who live in the areas that get tornadoes and bad thunder storms....just what do you do with your horses during those storms?  I have been putting mine up in the barns for years, being afraid that they would get struck by lightning.  I figure that the odds are greater to be struck than to have a tornado hit the barn with them in it.  I think I heard somewhere that during a tornado they are safer in a large pasture, one with room to run from debris.....but do they really run then???? or are they standing with their butts to the wind/rain and not moving.  Mine are in the barn right now....waiting for the bad weather to pass.

 

Glad to have a bomb shelter under my house.  :))

 

Jody and the girls

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