Box Rest Turnout

[kahahak]

After 3 long months of box rest my horse is finally turned out for field rest. We have him in a small paddock literally the same size as a stable which we will move round every day - so small he cannot pick up a trot in there for now. Was wondering whether this is unnecessary or whether anyone else did this and has good results - Cannot see why it would hurt him and stops the risk of anything else happening to his leg?

 

[milliepops]

I have done this to reintroduce turnout several times. At vet's suggestion I then added more stable sized pens like a maze so she had more space/grass but couldn't build up any speed. Bit of a faff but worked well.

 

[Equi]

It depends on your horse of course but if hooning about can hurt the horse then best to take any precaution necessary. But if the horse is to start moving about a little more then you may need to make a maze/track type thing so as said they can't build up speed but still get to mooch.