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Arizahn

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What do you think would be a great invention?

I was reading a thread earlier and had an idea. Why don't we have a lorry that is suitable for using for box rest, isolation/quarantine, or even foaling down? Something that could be kept as a sterile environment too, if need be. Seriously, the emergencies that require a horse to be kept in, but still may need a journey to the vet, etc.

Why can't we have this? Do we not have the means yet? Or has no one gotten around to it?

Discuss, examples of inventions and ideas welcome!
 
I have used my lorry as temporary stabling but as one is limited to 8' width for use on the road and most people won't consider stabling even a 12hh Welsh in a stable with one dimension of 8' or less there's limited appeal. My 12hh Welshy has been happy for years in her 8 x 12 foot stable and it's only due to the limited height (6') that I don't put a larger animal in there but I appear to be very much in a minority.
 
Okay, from another perspective. How about a kit that allows you to make a stable into a sterile environment? Some kind of panelling, those special UV lights, air conditioning unit, etc. Ideally one that may either be added to an existing structure, or else set up in a field as though a shelter.
 
I did invent a ramp extension for my big girl when she was on three legs. It took the slope from an 8' length and quite steep to a much gentler 16' length and slope. Now I have a ramp that allows you to back a lorry or trailer up and lay the ramp flat. The walk from the stables to it is around 25 yards and a very gentle slope which is achievable for even lame horses on three legs or with severe back issues.

I have invented (in my head) a shavings riddling device to sift beds better and a three chamber poo drying device attached to a boiler for easy burning with no wasted energy.
 
As for the sterile environment: Trouble is, as soon as you bring in a horse you've blown the sterility big time. If you have a stable which is finished inside with planed wood and has been given several decent coats of gloss paint and is floored with the spreadable rubber flooring you can make a good job of keeping it very clean indeed. If you want total sterility you're into air locks and pressurised rooms etc - not achievable on most yards and not actually attempted on any vets yards I've been to.
 
*hic* said:
As for the sterile environment: Trouble is, as soon as you bring in a horse you've blown the sterility big time. If you have a stable which is finished inside with planed wood and has been given several decent coats of gloss paint and is floored with the spreadable rubber flooring you can make a good job of keeping it very clean indeed. If you want total sterility you're into air locks and pressurised rooms etc - not achievable on most yards and not actually attempted on any vets yards I've been to.
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So vets insisting on a horse being brought to them for a sterile environment are being a bit daft then?

I thought perhaps sterile as in the area starts out totally sterile, sealed up and uses air conditioning and airlock type entrance, rubber walls and floor/ceiling, etc. Then only have one horse present in the unit, but then you would have the issue of lack of company. And yes, it would need a lot of cleaning.
 
Nope, not daft, because most people haven't the wherewithal to keep a box waiting to be used on their yards. And at their own yards the vets have everything on hand for big ops.
 
So really a spare box that can be scrubbed down would do? Well, except for major operations of course. We actually have a spare loosebox for this at our yard :) Although it wouldn't help with the transporting part.

This ideas thing would probably work better with more people involved! We currently have poor *hic* who is sensible, and my own demented ramblings...come on folks! Who else has an idea, or has implemented a clever solution to a problem at some point?
 
I would like someone to invent a neck cover designed whilst the horses' head is down grazing, all neck/ combo rugs seem to be designed for the horse to be stood with their heads up which they hardly ever are!
 
catherine22 said:
I would like someone to invent a neck cover designed whilst the horses' head is down grazing, all neck/ combo rugs seem to be designed for the horse to be stood with their heads up which they hardly ever are!
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Maybe an extra little fold of cloth at the base of the neck/withers to allow for lowering the head to graze? With something stretchy inside the cloth so that it shortens again when the head is raised.
 
Arizahn said:
Maybe an extra little fold of cloth at the base of the neck/withers to allow for lowering the head to graze? With something stretchy inside the cloth so that it shortens again when the head is raised.
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Something like that, I'm just amazed none of the rug manufacturers have solved the problem, the rugs all look lovely in their pictures because their heads are up. When you leave the neck cover undone under the neck and they put their head down it clearly isn't right, although how to fix this and yet not have it so massive the rain gets in I'm not sure. Some kind of stretchy material sounds in the right direction though
 
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