2 rugs, 1 shoe & a leadrope ...

[Shooting Star]

that's what the new boy has managed to destroy in week 1 of being owned by me eek

I've got so used to having 'polite' horses in the past with only one small rug rip and 2 lost shoes in close on 20 years having a hooligan (fortunately only to inanimate objects and not others!) on my hands is a shock to the system - hoping he calms down in week 2 or it's going to get very expensive!

Anybody else had a horse like this that's grown out of it once it's settled in or do I have years of excessive maintenance costs to look forwards to?

 

[Pearlsasinger]

I've had my horse just a year this week-end.
In that time, she has managed to kick out a kick-board in her stable and damage one of the uprights, so she had to move out of there. She then pushed the door to her new stable out, damaging the bolts. Now she has sat on the Hay-bar and squashed it. She is also a bucket squasher.

She is a very big girl and really doesn't know her own strength. She is 19 and I can't see her growing out of it now.

A roof panel has also blown off her own stable in the high winds but that WASN'T her fault.

 

[Spotsrock]

My girl is hard on rugs. I've started putting a cheap no fill over anything pricey to protect it. Much cheaper to replace!

 

[Alphamare]

Your horse is going to be still settling in for a little while so give her a chance.

My boy is hell on rugs so I buy him cheap ones and mend mend mend them. Or pop a cheap rain sheet on the top, but I have found one torn completely in half, so glad it was the rain sheet not the rug!