One hoof in front of the other.

Check your fans! If you are like me, you have some kind of fan going in your barn 24/7 right now to suck cool air in, push hot air out, and to make it harder for flies to land. Last year I bought a fan from TSC that was advertised as a barn fan. After a post from my vet about barn fires, I checked my fans again, and round the barrel fan I have been using is open motor. Thankfully my other fans are all closed motor. These barrel fans are in just about every barn I have been to, and I wonder how many people, like me, assumed that because it had barn in the name it was safe to use in the barn.

Glad you caught this! In an ideal world the pons would be able to have running air all the time but even with a closed motor, running fans 24/7 can be a fire risk regardless of model. Any electronic with moving parts, that can produce heat while running, or high amounts of active current kind of does best when you can check on it regularly. When I worked in barns the fans were only on as long as there was someone manning the barn, so usually running most of the day. If workers were gone for the day or asleep, the fans were off. Even a fan in a computer can have it's parts wear down, become faulty, and start to smoke/potentially start a fire. I had a computer nearly go up like that once while I was taking a nap - that was on me. I should not have left the PC running unattended. Computer fires happen. Hell, I've even had lightbulbs that should have been safe start to smoke after just two hours being left on accidentally. Could have started a fire. Electronics with moving parts, that can get hot, or that have a higher use of power unfortunately do pose fire risks inherently, and it's about being able to monitor what you have on while it's on.

This works as a metaphor for children but also it works perfectly well when played totally straight because horse people are actually like this

it literally took me three solid readings through this to realize that it wasn’t necessarily about horse people, because they are exactly like this

I must be the anti horse person (and lets face it anti child person) cause I have three horses and every time someone mentions maybe getting one Im immediately all: No. Dont do it. Save yourself. Its too late for me, but you can still live….

Common eider