Ouch..
We opted to keep the mares inside their stalls for today; turned them out briefly to clean their stalls, and they were really getting stressed out for a little while; then they came back to the gate, and I figured I'd let them in. I am really sick and home alone till 9pm or so, and I cannot be out there trying to round them up if they jump the fence; not that they ever have offered to go through it or over. It is just safer this way, and it is unusually HOT out to boot, which means flies Everywhere out there, but oddly not many in the stalls. For some reason the blackfly population has gotten HUGE these past few days; there are even some of the little buggers in the house, antagonizing my feverish body! (100 degree temperature.. blech.)
They are both munching hay right now; I have a window open but haven't heard any neighing since I let them in.