Do you lock your horse's in?

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Really as the post says, do you lock your horses in the field or does the yard get locked up at night?

It's such common place for paddlocks to be on fields and on gates to the yard late at night that I don't even think about it!
 
No to both - the yard is a working farm and the farmer and I both live on site and anyone coming on or off has to come past both houses and 4 dogs who all let us know if its someone strange. Should say we are also in the middle of nowhere - nearest neighbours are a mile in one direction and half a mile in the other. Any strangers round here are noticed.
 
All gates that lead somewhere (ie out into the car park / onto the drive / onto the road) are always locked, day and night, unless access is needed. Field gates aren't.
 
Our stables are down a track (about 100yds) that crosses another field. we lock both gates at either end of the track. 2nd gate leads to stable 'yard' so there is another gate to the actual field.

There is noone on site and we have been broken into several times - they just cut through the padlock chains. We don't keeo anything of value donw the stables but we still lock the gates. If nothing else it takes more time to get in. They only really used to nick the generator but now we have electric we've not had any 'visitors' for a while (touching wood here!).
 
I am in France. We have two lots of gates to our farm and yard. We are at top of steep hill. Driveway gate is always closed but not locked as it discourage opportunistic theives they have to revers down the hill. Theft is not a problem in this rural area.
 
We often lock the gates if the horses are turned out 24/7, as footpath walkers are generally rubbish at shutting gates after themselves, and some random people sometimes think its funny to leave gates open for the horses to get out.
yard is unlocked - we live practially 10 steps away
 
my yard is split into 2, one side is electric gates and the other side is padlocked, they are both kept shut at all time the padlock side is open when people are there but when there gone its locked, so they are always locked in so to speak.
 
My horses field gate is always locked with a combination lock - a select few have the code.

We don't have a yard, just a field in the village. In case of emergency, the nearest field neighbours have the combination and I am just up the street.

I am lucky that there are streetlights near the field and the whole village keeps and eye on my horses and trailer for me.
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We have a padlock on the field gate because a group of youths let the horses out (and they have access to the road once let out of the field) a few times before I got my horse.
We don't have a gate at the entrance of the yard, so we can't lock it
Nickie
 
The yard has an open courtyard and no gate to lock. The fields entrances are passed a area were some delightful big dogs that go ballastic if you pass live s o I doubt anyone woudl tae their chances going to the fields (although never say never
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field gate is always locked. Yard is practically in my backgarden but garden gate to yard is always kept locked.

We are in the middle of a village

There is direct access to the field off the yard so can always get the horses out in an emergency (and I can jump the garden gate!)
 
I answered no to both as they are at home but when we rented fields then the gates were padlocked (even though someone could easily cut through the fence!) but anyone could access the fields as they were next to footpaths and fishing lakes.
 
I've got two horses at two different yards and both are the same - the individual fields aren't padlocked as they are both on a yard complex as opposed to being fields at the side of the road. Both yards are padlocked at night and when there is noone in.
 
Yes to locking the field gate. The field is some way from the stable block down a track and a bit isolated.

No to locking the yard, as the YO's house is next door and the only access, other than crossing the fields, is past his front door.

I did think about padlocking individual stables, but the thought of what could happen in a fire stopped me.
 
All the winter paddock gates face into the yard, they are arranged in an L shape across the front and side - no padlocks on those, but the three entry gates to the yard are all padlocked with massively heavy duty ones. The padlocked gates are the only route in.

Yard locked when no-one there.
 
Yes both field gates locked at all times (unless we are there) and all 4 yard gates locked unless we are there and always overnight - yard is at home and nearest gate is 2 m from house
 
No to both.

No-one wants my horses, theft isn't a problem around here.

My quad has lived in the barn, unfettered, for 3 years, as I've broken it I'd quite like someone to pinch it actually. I have very effective alarms in the horse barn, called greedy goats that don't shut up at the slightest sound of a human. No one gets in there without them kicking off, which starts the dogs off.

My fields and barns are all around the house, with 4' of snow and a ditch infront of the only accesible field from the road, there are three dogs that bark at squirrels, they would, and do, howl the place down to get out if a vehicle or people came on the property.

In the UK I'd certainly have the Paint and the stallion in locked back fields. Sad state of affairs isn't it?
 
No to the fields being locked, but thats because all the field gates lead onto my yard.
Yes to yard being locked at night, as it is my drive gate and this is locked at 10 pm.
Cameras go on at dusk, and perimeter alarm is on all the time.
It's like fort knox but we moved here from a livery yard that allways had problems, so went i bit overboard with security!

We live in a small quaint village too, locals think we are mad!
 
Field gate is locked at all times - have to go through this to get to stabling.

Is a bugger if i break of lose a key - need to send away to china and wait 6 weeks for a replacement!!
 
I voted 'no' to both questions. My reasoning is----------I live half way up a mountain so if they wanted to steal mine they are really serious and..........locking up doesnt deter here. They are quite capable of butchering on site and leaving the head, skin, legs and interiors in the box.The freaky thing is, they are so good at it that you wouldnt have a clue till the morning after
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Our yard is in one of our fields, and our fields have padlocks. Our yard is in a very public area so we can't afford not to lock the gates. The yard doors are always locked (footpath runs about 10ft away from the back of the stables).
I would only ever lock a horse in a yard if there was somewhere it could be put in case of a fire. Our horses can be taken straight out of their stables and let loose in a roughly two acre field. At work, the locked gate has a car park in between it and the (square) yard. If the gate were on the edge of the yard, that would be the only case where I wouldn't lock it. I don't trust anyone
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