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It is very cold and windy. My horse does not particularly seem to want to be in its field.

I put it out and within an hour or two it is pacing the fence line. Obviously I am haying up well so it is not the lack of food.

Now, do I leave her to get on with it (and let her dig up the field and cover herself in mud) or do I concede and let her stay in her box.

I don't like leaving in but she genuinely seems happier in her stable right now.

What does everyone else do when their horse is like this?! Normally mine loves to be out! Blasted weather!
 
Mine are like this right now. So once they've been anchoring to come in for half an hour or more I bring them in :)
 
It's freezing here and mine are doing the same after an hour and a half , I am bringing after the yard work is done and working the two in work and the other too are just standing in .
I am feeding hay blocks as well as haylage to keep them amused they just don't want to be out at all.
 
I'd turn out for an hour or two to stretch legs and then bring back in. If the horse is just stressing and being miserable while chewing the field up it seems a bit pointless leaving them out.
 
I'd bring in. I practically had to beat mine out of their stable this morning and they're meant to be hardy wee devils...
 
mine does about 30mins then starts galloping around and wont stop till you pick up the leadrope! he could have a mountain of hay and wouldnt stay out....just to wet (no snow only rain here) cold and windy to enjoy grazing!
 
Frank does this :rolleyes: then looks at the back of his stable and sighs a lot when you open the door :D

(I'd bring her in ;) )
 
Glad you all agree. That's perfect. Also reassured it isn't just mine that doesn't want to be out there. I've never known her not prefer the field before!

And now, what the hell do I do when I am back at work? :eek: I am on holiday this week so can hoik in after a few hours. Next week it is in or out and nothing in-between.

Guess she'll have to stay in during the week if this weather doesn't break :(
 
I can't see pacing up and down in freezing mud is any less stressful than being stood in. I've been turning mine out in the school for an hour 2 or 3 times a day for a buck/fart/ roll, seems to work for them. In the field even with hay they just plough the fence line after 45 mins.
 
I'm a hard hearted wench and once they are out, they are out I'm afraid. Pace all they want, that just means "free exercise" in my eyes. The field couldn't possibly get any worse if there were 100 horses in there doing the same thing.

I'll come and get them when I've finished work.

Sheesh, I hate work but I still have to go. Who do they bloody well think they are???

(p.s. it's not that bad down here in SW but if we had the weather they've got oop north then I would keep in)
 
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My boy is the same, likes a quick leg stretch but then wants back in, only been once in the last two weeks that hes wondered off up the field with the others and so I left him out, its unusally cold for March and hes lost alot of his coat so think hes feeling the cold through lack of winter coat despite him still being in a heavy turnout with an under rug
 
I've been bringing in early since the gales started, we have no snow, even the sun is shining, but the wind is bitterly cold and the, ahem, nice horses brought themselves in on Saturday, taking most of the fencing with them. I spent a few hours on Sunday putting the fence back up and been fetching them in when they start pacing ever since. I hate fencing.
 
There have been a lot of days recently I wished I stables to bring mine in (and they are hairy things) A lot of horses just stand wherever you put hay anyway! So yeah I would bring in if practical, but not feel too bad if not.
 
Mine are coming in after i have mucked out and hayed etc, so out for anout 2hrs, by then they are looking at their clocks and waiting by the gate, its just the weather.
 
My big hardy Irish horse is banging the door down to go out, drags me out to field...gets to field does to Laps in trot, looks at be like **** then stands at gate untill I bring in... Think the thick boy thinks it will magically be full of lush grass each morning!
 
I either turn out for an hour or ride in the school, then put his nibs back in for a duvet day. He loves being in, so i guess I am very lucky at the moment.
 
When you're back at work, can you not get up there a bit earlier, let her have a stretch and a role and bring her back in for the day before work?

I like mine to go out everyday, but if she evidently wants to come in there is no point her chewing the field up.
 
She can go out for half an hour before work but usually no one else has turned out then so she is out without any other horses. Being a princess she obviously isn't mad keen on that either. :rolleyes:

I don't know who gave her the impressions she was royalty but she certainly seems to have taken it and run with it!

O, and also, do you think I'm too heavy for her? ;) :p
 
Jesstickle said:
I don't know who gave her the impressions she was royalty but she certainly seems to have taken it and run with it!

O, and also, do you think I'm too heavy for her? ;) :p
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But of course she is royalty! Didn't you know that all beautiful grey ponies are actual princesses :confused: little brown TBs are princesses too, just quieter about it ;)

If you're worried you're too heavy then you'd best be on the safe side and send her down to me, I'm a genuine midget and even on the new 10% rule I seem to be ok for mine... :D

Oh and I'd bring in too, even my princess who normally won't entertain the idea of coming in before "official coming in time" unless there are treats around actually marched over to me and stuck her nose in the headcollar on Sunday. This weather is :(
 
Suziq77 said:
But of course she is royalty! Didn't you know that all beautiful grey ponies are actual princesses :confused: little brown TBs are princesses too, just quieter about it ;)

If you're worried you're too heavy then you'd best be on the safe side and send her down to me, I'm a genuine midget and even on the new 10% rule I seem to be ok for mine... :D

Oh and I'd bring in too, even my princess who normally won't entertain the idea of coming in before "official coming in time" unless there are treats around actually marched over to me and stuck her nose in the headcollar on Sunday. This weather is :(
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I'll tell you what, I will write it into my will that if I die an untimely death my princess of a grey pony is to come and live with you. :D

I can tell your a midget because I genuinely thought Betty was a massive warmblood. Turns out she is a teeny, tiny warmblood but you make her look hooge. I am short but due to my lardiness I am definitely not neat and petite in the way you are!
 
martlin said:
I'm sure there will be plenty of people willing to ''rescue'' her for a couple of grand :D
Or you could just upgrade her suspension?
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You do make me laugh. I now have visions of my horse on lowered suspensions and an awful body kit like some badly modded car :eek:
 
To properly answer your questions, I need some more detail:
what's your uncle's brother's BMI?
how much the pony weighs on a weigh tape?
is the weigh tape pink?
are you a well balanced rider, who graduated from the levitation school of Littlelegs (I think)?
does the pony get linseed and brewer's yeast?
that's for starters
 
O god M

I am now ashamed to admit she actually does get linseed and brewers yeast (well, I think it's in the supplement I give her anyway) :o

I'm sorry. :(

ETS: as for being a balanced rider. I think we all know the answer to that is no :p
 
I'd actually forgotten about the levitation school!
On a serious note, my mare isn't one for being stabled, but she's a wuss & in this wind is only happy out all day if I put hay out under the trees because she isn't prepared to endure awful weather for the sake of grazing.
 
Jesstickle said:
O god M

I am now ashamed to admit she actually does get linseed and brewers yeast (well, I think it's in the supplement I give her anyway) :o

I'm sorry. :(

ETS: as for being a balanced rider. I think we all know the answer to that is no :p
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Fear not! All might not be lost!
Have you checked her back, tack and teeth?
And if your brewer's yeast is not bought in a hessian sack from the back alley behind organic brewery, it doesn't count.
 
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