In the winter here in Idaho, we don't have many hours of light after our desk job is over for the day. We recently bought ourselves some headlamps and those are fantastic! We can even tilt them to make sure they don't shine in the horses' eyes and make sure they are tilted toward what we're doing. I tip mine out when I'm pushing the wheelbarrow, but tip them down when we're cleaning up the pens. It's really handy and we have our hands free to do the work without having to hold a flashlight.
I recently did some research on how well horses can see in the dark. Turns out they can see better than humans because they have more cones in their eyes than us, which means they can take in more light. It's pretty cool! Just a reminder that if you do shine a light in their face, their eyes do still take time to adjust back to darkness.
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