How long do your horses get 'out' in winter months?

[BorgRae]

As Title - How long do your horses get to go out in winter months? Whether it's in a sand paddock, or grazing

 

[CobsGalore]

24 hours!

 

[peanut]

14 hours a day whatever the weather but we are lucky having good shelter.

 

[welshied]

Usually about 6/7 hours

 

[Cocorules]

Ditto cobs - would not go back to being stabled at all unless I absolutely had to now

 

[Grumpymoo]

24/7

 

[TwoStroke]

I need an 'Other' option. Mine have access to both field and stables 24/7, so choose whether they want to be in or out.

 

[_GG_]

As much as I would love her to be out 24/7, she won't have it.

I currently turn out in the morning and bring in mid afternoon providing it is a niceish day.

If there is the slightest bit of wind or rain, my mare will stand at the gate calling at anyone to let her in. If I open the stable door and then open the gate, she will trot across the yard and straight into her stable...and she has loads of shelter in the field!

She was on a raceyard for 6.5 years, so it's what she knows and loves bless her.

 

[BorgRae]

I need an 'Other' option. Mine have access to both field and stables 24/7, so choose whether they want to be in or out.

This is fab... Wish mine had this!!!

 

[stencilface]

3 are out 24/7 with access to hardstanding half rubbered and half strawed field shelter. 2 of them are out in the day for max 12 hours, min 8 hours - with access to field shelter.

 

[PandorasJar]

24/7

 

[dianchi]

My girly is on 12 hours in 12 hours out

 

[Countrychic]

I voted out for a few hours on sand but they get 2 days a week out in the fields for about 5hrs then the other 5 days they get 4 hrs out in gravel based paddock and go on the walker.

 

[phantomhorse]

Mine are out 24/7 in late spring, autumn and all summer. In winter it's in at night, then out after I've ridden in the morning after the school run. Usually out at about 11.30am. Then back in for the night at about 4.15pm (on the way home from the afternoon school run!)

 

[ElleD]

I bring my boy in at night but my 2 yr old is out 247.

 

[Wagtail]

Ours all get 3 hours out in the sand paddock every day. I find they are very content with this routine and stay nice and clean. I hate muddy fields, though this summer they were out 24/7 until the end of October and I've never seen it so muddy. I couldn't possibly turn out in the fields now, it would be a nightmare.

 

[phantomhorse]

Ours all get 3 hours out in the sand paddock every day. I find they are very content with this routine and stay nice and clean. I hate muddy fields, though this summer they were out 24/7 until the end of October and I've never seen it so muddy. I couldn't possibly turn out in the fields now, it would be a nightmare.

Know what you mean Mine's swaddled in a Snuggy Hood Turnout and Spik n Span body rug under his turnout rug. I also plaster his tail and legs (from just above the hock/knees downwards) in copious amounts of pig oil. Sadly, I just don't have time to ride and scrape off oodles of caked on dried mud.

 

[Daytona]

8.30 to 3.30

 

[annaellie]

Am trying to keep mine out 24/7 but sometimes they just stand by the gate so I bring them in. They will be brought in soon overnight just because the feild is so wet otherwise I'd have them out all winter

 

[showpony]

Minimum of 6hrs daily! My Mare needs this - otherwise she would be a bit loopy if left standing in stable all day - She gets to stretch her legs and seems to adore the mud and rolls in the muckiest part she can find

 

[kinnygirl1]

Mine goes out between 8 and 9 am(depends which of us is turning out) and is in between 3 and 4 pm - so I voted for a few hours. Ours are on grazing but there isn't much grass on the winter paddocks. We chuck hay out but that soon gets eaten so they are turned out more for a leg stretch than anything else.

 

[rowy]

Around 8 hours.

 

[cblover]

24/7 at the minute but I have stables too and will bring them in on a night I need to.

 

[grandmaweloveyou]

24/7 love it so does he!

 

[moana]

All of mine are out and will remain out 24/7 every winter. They do have shelter available and rugs if/when needed.

 

[Little Fat Pony]

Out from 6am - 5/6pm

 

[jumpingjasper]

24/7 grazing but with access to big stables as shelters if they want them. plenty of grazzing aswell.

 

[MiJodsR2BlinkinTite]

My two are out during daylight hours; in for the night.

This regime seems to suit them; plus my DIY livery as well, who does the same.

Even, or should I say, particularly, in the summer, I tend to stick to this routine as my traddie boy's got Sweet Itch and its far better for him to in out the way of the midges basically. If there's a nice breeze, or if midges aren't too bad, then I will leave them out in the summer though.

This summer they've both been out more than in, but now the fields are more like a swamp than anything else so IMO they're far better in.

I've also got a small (quarter acre) "holding pen" which is concreted and is brill for chucking them when vet/farrier's expected and I don't want to put them in, but need somewhere to just shove them so they don't get mucky!

 

[Starzaan]

Stabled horses are out from 5am to 5 - 6pm every day, whatever the weather, in proper fields.

We have a couple that live out all year too.

 

[Annagain]

Mine go out at about 6-6.30am and come in 6.30-7pm during the week, and are usually out or getting ready to be ridden by 8 at the weekends.