COME ON DAYLIGHT! Horses have escaped.

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Enfys

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Oh, ******** ******** **** !!!!

Just went out to call the dogs in and do a last torchlight eye count on the horses (not easy when the place is lit up by fireflies) when I heard the unmistakable sound of fencing being broken followed by thundering hooves and two galloping horses flying past my back door onto the road
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I can't do a damn thing about it! Hubby is at work, and I won't leave Evie alone to go searching the countryside in the dead of night, not that I have a clue which direction they have gone in anyway. It's about 12.30am now, so no light for a few hours yet. Hopefully the blasted horses will come back home and be on the hayfield in the morning. The ground is dry so I'd have to be an Indian Scout to find tracks (so much easier when they do it with a foot of snow on the ground) and this is corn country with not a fenced field for about 15 miles! Oh bugger, bugger,bugger
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At least it was the big horses and not Lola and the foal.

Well, I won't be getting much sleep tonight now then, I can't hear them over the other four screeching their heads off either, with luck the escapees will come back and not be trashing a corn field or wrapping ginseng nets around themselves. ****** horses! Sometimes, in fact, frequently and seriously recently, I really consider selling the lot of them.

Ah well, nothing to be done for now.
 
Bloody bugger!
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I would get out there and help you, if I was over the other side of the pond.
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Chin up, horses know who feeds them and I am sure they stopped close to home- With the heads down in fresh grass.

Good luck hugs babes!
 
I sympathise, it's one of the worst things that happen when you have more than one horse, we had a few incidents years ago of people letting them out, and I still go cold at the memory of waking at 5am to see 30 plus horses stream past my window and head for the road.
My husband was away and there was just me and three under 12 children.
Two hared off on bikes in one direction, and we went the other. They had turned down a track leading to the main road so we raced round the roads to shut the gate at the other end. They turned back and we raced back again in the car, only to see them go up the farm next door's drive, which had a cattle grid entrance.
I watched through hands over my eyes as they hit the grid, the first huge broodmare felt it give way under her feet and did a bounce stride out the other side. Damn me if all 30 didn't do exactly the same and escape uninjured.
When I got them trapped in their yard the problem of getting them home arose, so I caught the boss mare, and started walking her followed by the now subdued herd down the broad footpath that comes out from their farm opposite our entrance.
They were chased up the rear by the three kids.
All was going well until we found a massive fallen tree across the path. By this time I was so worked up I physically dragged the first horse over the tree and the rest jumped after her. We stationed two kids on either side of the road and led the herd across.
There have been other times when the whole episode leaves you weak and shaking at the enormity of what might have happened when horses escape, so I understand your fear now.
There isn't a lot other than take your child with you in the car you can do; perhaps as you say they will simpy turn round and come home..
The best of luck...
 
O cripes! I hope all ends well. What a thing to happen, and how awful not to be able to do anything about it. I will wait for news.
 
Oh I know that feeling!!! Hope everything is OK and you find them. Our were let out twice at one farm, once was about 11pm and they galloped round the tarmac roads on a housing estate and took themselved back in - but galloping through a junction of one of the main access routes onto the estate - dead opposite the gate that had been left open...

Second time some joyriders went to burn a car out in the field, how pleasant, further up the lane where its much quieter, realised there were horses and took the car and burnt it out eslwhere, but of course didn't shut the gate...

I was away at uni, mother and sister were out at 2am in PJ's and wellies (one of the horsewatch people knew Asti and Byter were 2 of the horses, Asti was only 2) looking for them with the police. Again the b*ggers were running amok round a housing estate - and its not little!

The police said "well we had hold of a really friendly ginger coloured one, and were feeding her polos (That'll be Asti then) but we had to let her go when the others galloped off... about 8 of them in total. Byter took them all back to the field bless her!

Luckily both times they didn't meet any oncoming cars - sheer luck especially on the 11pm one people coming home after a night out!

Where we are now, there are far too many full of grass fields to tempt them from going too far if they get out (Asti and Ivy have BOTH made the odd dash for freedom)

Anyway, fingers crossed you get them back with no problems.
 
It's all pretty worrying at the time but it's good to hear other people's stories, I'm just glad that no-one was injured. 30 horses streaming past my window may just have put me into a bit of a spin! 2 making a break for freedom is small stuff compared to that.

I am pretty useless at staying stressed out and went to bed. When I went out this morning the culprits were on the lawn, Fergus even had the cheek to whinny and come over demanding breakfast!
 
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