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Feeling miserable and cold or conversely uncomfortably hot is a rather 
subjective thing.  Thus it is almost impossible to know what another species 
of animal is experiencing.

An example:  Birds have one more color recepter in the eye than humans. 
They also can detect the near ultra violet that humans can not.  These are 
facts.  On the other hand, we can not describe or understand the extra 
colors they experience.  Interesting article about this in latest Scientific 
American.

The best we can do is to observe horses and see what they do under various 
conditions.  We probably are not wrong to assume that if they go from a 35 F 
rain into a run in shed, they are more comfortable in the shed than in the 
cold rain.  On the other hand if it is -20 F, calm wind, and they are 
standing around in the pasture ignoring the shed they probably are not 
uncomfortable.

It is my, admittedly not scientific, observation that if there is a cold 
rain, many horses shiver.  If they have a choice they will get out of the 
rain.  My conclusion is that a shivering horse is not as comfortable as a 
non-shivering horse.



Ed
Ed & Wendy Hauser
2994 Mittower Road
Victor, MT 59875

(406) 642-9640

ranch(at)sisuwest(dot)us 


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