Are your horses still out?

I'm on full livery and my horse comes in at night all year round. When I was at a DIY yard she would be out 24/7 from April to November. I was worried she wouldn't like being stabled at night all year round but, she seems to like it!
 
Mine are out 24/7, one fully clipped hot cob and one very hairy youngster. both tubby. Winter field opens at the end of October. Last year they needed to come in at night because of the appalling wet weather. I am praying that this year it will be drier. It is so much easier with them living out and cheaper.
 
Ours are still out. I am feeling very uncertain at the moment because I had said that I would not put my TB gelding through another winter and so he is due to leave us next Friday.

My heart is breaking for the losing of my dear boy and if it is the right decision (it is, but you know how it is) and oh loads of things, and part of that is what will happen to my big lad who will be my only horse on the yard when my Tb is gone.

Due to a series of events beyond my own control his field mate and horses in surrounding fields are stabled in one part of the yard whereas he is stabled in a barn on another part of the yard with horses belonging to 1 other person only.

I am worried that there will be a day when maybe his field mate's owner decides to bring hers in at night along with all the others around him but the barn owner will leave hers out so that if he went in he'd be alone and also alone if he stayed out, he'll be missing his buddy anyway and I hate to think of him alone like that. He doesn't have the option to change fields to be with the barn horses, which is fine most of the time.

I think most horses will be in by end of the month in any case. I hope luck will be on our side.
 
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Still out at present... sharing with 2 hairy natives who's owners would like them out as long as possible too. I'm hoping to get into November but it might be who blinks first....
 
Out and staying out, I don't actually have stables anyway, just a big old shelter.
One is naked, the other is clipped out and already wearing two blankets at night (none as I write ) sub zero last night.

When I was on livery we had set dates for horses to come in, usually Nov 1st - April 30th. There was a 'no horse left out alone' rule which was set in stone, which I had/have no problem with.
How I hated it, day in, day out, ugh, never again, when I didn't fancy stabling the horses during a nice run of weather I'd move them a mile up the mountain (track direct from the livery yard - so convenient) to my own field, and I turned them away up there loooooooong before April 30th :)
 
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Why oh why she has to wait until she is in her stable before peeing everywhere I don't know. What is wrong with peeing in the field?
And why do we have to bury poos in the shavings? I get a false sense of 'ahhh - she hasn't made a mess' when I turn up in the morning until I realise that yes, there is a mess, but she has covered it all over with a neat layer of clean shavings.

She can stay out as long as possible!
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I solved this by training mine to pee in a bucket as soon as she came in from the field :o. She then 'trained' herself to call for the bucket in the mornings if she needed a wee then too. It made a massive difference to my bedding costs.
No help for poo-burying though, I just learnt to accept that :p.

Mine's still out and will be until the fields get too wet, then they'll move onto winter turnout. Luckily YO doesn't believe in keeping horses in unnecessarily and is happy to have 2 sacrifice fields in the winter so that everyone gets a good amount of turnout.
 
Our 5 horses/ponies are also out and staying out. They do have a shelter and the ones who need it will get rugs. They will get all the hay they want, but at the moment we have more grass than we need.
 
Another whose horses are never out 24 hours because they come in during the day in summer .
ATM we are still out at night and coming in to work .
The first two ( my special friends ) will come in after we have C through his dental on Tuesday if he needs sedating I don't what in done while he's having a management change before of the colicing / pain issues we had over the summer .
The 2 ID's will stay out a while longer and Tatts will stay out all winter as he's happier out and we are happier when he's out .
Their all clipped except J who is not quite right but with modern rugs this is no problem .
It is getting wet and the mud will start soon .
 
mine are at home they have been out all summer and they come in during the day when it's hot, I tend to keep them out at night until my field gets too muddy and the weather turns so it varies each year they are still out at the moment with lightweight rugs on at night naked in day if warm enough.
 
Ours are still out except they come in for breakfast and a munch of hay for an hour or two in the mornings. We run the tiny yard ourselves and can do as we please.

While it's dry enough, we'll continue like this for as long as possible, hopefully well into November. Then they'll be in overnight, but will get several hours' turnout every day without fail. We hay in the field when necessary.
 
Never a hard and fast rule for us... we do what the environment dictates.

Too many flies in summer? - In during day/fly mask/rug
Too hot? - Sheltered field
Mild winter? - turn away
Cold winter? - rug/turn away
Wet winter - bring in nightly
Nuclear war? - Cross bridge when got to it.
 
Still out and unclipped. Fields bone dry and have prob another weeks worth of fence moving till we reach the top and field opened completely so don't need to feed hay yet.
Planning to clip Wednesday so will be in from then.
 
They're all out 24/7/365.

I do miss having them in, but they either need to be out because they sieze up when stabled, or are young and not yet in work.

Field is ten plus acres, good natural shelter, and a double field shelter. They get ad lib hay as of the end of this month.
 
First winter having my boy at home and the plan is to keep him out but he will have 24/7 access to his stable and the yard. Loads of grass still so not doing hay yet other than when he's on the yard he has a haynet because im a softie! I only plan to feed hay from the stable/ yard and if weather gets horrendous or too wet he will be penned into the yard and stable overnight. Im saving the middle paddock for foggage about Jan and February time.
I guess we will just see how it goes and adjust accordingly but all very exciting :)
 
Mine was begging me to put in his stable when I got back from holiday on 1st October. To be fair there is hardly any grass on their summer paddock and there is no shelter from the prevailing wind direction. I can tell by the girth that he has lost weight (not a problem!).

I think he snuggled down in his straw bed and had a good sleep. At the moment he isn't clipped, but hasn't much of a winter coat, so I put on the lightest of lightweight rugs at night, just to keep his back warm, and turn him out without in the day. I think I will keep him like this until he is clipped.

He is a horse that likes his stable and always looks a bit forlorn when living out 24/7 unless it is lovely weather. He likes to come in during the day in the summer too if it is too hot or the flies are bothering. He really is a wimp and likes his comforts.
 
We usually get until early nov as well, which is looking likely at the moment as fields are still pretty dry :) a couple of liveries are in overnight already but I'll leave my gelding out until the last day as he's allergic to dust. Getting clipped tomorrow so will be rugged from tomorrow too.
 
Mine are at home so I can thankfully do what I want with them, they all live out 24/7 with permanent access into my open stables (I had them built specifically so I could do this). They come and go as they please and they do put themselves in when its wet or whatever. They have a big round hay bale feeder in the yard which they help themselves to. Im thinking about giving one or two of them a minimal clip (makes no difference to living out, they are rugged anyway).
 
Rightly or wrongly, I "listen" to what ours say. They have a ten acre field between 4. Welsh D, Arab, Dartmoor cross, and Shetland. They all want in at night and a hay net now. Thats what they get. Back out in the morning:)
 
Mine will stay out 24/7 for as long as possible, at least until there's mud. They have access to their stables anyway but the oldie prefers to come in overnight when the winter comes because she likes to be able to rest and eat away from my gutty cob who tends to keep moving her off the hay. The other two will have their doors open and the run of the yard area overnight. This will be the first year my mini has his own stable. No doubt he'll still end up bunking in with the other two though.
 
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Rightly or wrongly, I "listen" to what ours say. They have a ten acre field between 4. Welsh D, Arab, Dartmoor cross, and Shetland. They all want in at night and a hay net now. Thats what they get. Back out in the morning:)
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Same with share horse and his fieldmate. They have very determined opinions that they want to be in at night now. It's worked out OK as far as we're concerned - in an ideal world they'd have been out 24/7 until the clocks changed but we're only a couple of weeks off that. Our grazing has altered a bit since last year as well so we're keen to manage it well going into winter and if that means coming in at night a bit earlier, that's fine.
 
Mine are all out and unrugged. Planing to clip over the next week or so , when I have time and then they will stay out rugged. Once the fields turn to mush they will be in at night. Usually that's around late Nov, they go back out March/April.
 
We normally don't bring in until 1st Nov, but last week some of the horses got through the fencing into YO's garden due to lack of grass :( So they are in at night now, which I'm happier about really!
 
I have 2 old gentlemen who decided they wanted in at night from the end of last week. The 5 year old mare could still easily be out 24/7 but sadly won't stay on her own so she has had to come in too.
 
All three are currently out and naked. I've been keeping a close eye on them because we've had plenty of rain here this week, but they always feel toasty to the touch and they haven't dropped an ounce of weight yet.

They'll be staying out for a good while longer. One gelding will be living out all through the winter, the mare might join him, and my oldie will come in at some point in December, before going back out in March.
 
mine cannot go out 24/7 in the summer as there is too much grass so she is in during the day. Now that the grass has gone back she comes in for a couple of hours in the afternoon but otherwise is out and naked (not clipped). I was considering rugging tonight as there is heavy rain forecast but she had lain in poo this afternoon and was revolting so she is back out naked again and hopefully will get a good wash tonight :D
She will come in overnight during the winter months and will be rugged then.
 
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