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Everything’s burned to a crisp – and the horses are suffering

6 August 2022

9:00 AM

6 August 2022

9:00 AM

Everything is well and truly burned to a crisp, and we are piling through hundreds of pounds of hay a week. When the sun shines relentlessly and it never rains, keeping horses gets awfully expensive.

The poor gee-gees themselves are bored stiff. We heave mountains of hay into the fields but they miss the ability to mooch about foraging and munching the greenery.

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