I think that this is pretty cool!

My grandmother was quite high up in the hunt In Ireland and set up a pony club when she moved to England, she used to tie our ponys up in the river for laminitis! She swore by it, she would just tie them to the bridge
 
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I have a fairly fast moving stream on my boundary but the banks are too steep to safely negotiate and the cost of setting something up so I could use it would be prohibitive otherwise I would use it instead of hosing, that looks really good and the horses relaxed in the pens.
 
I think you pay a huge amount for a hydro pool that does the same thing and takes up loads of your space in your yard - so if I had the water I'd be copying in a heartbeat - same if I lived by the sea, I'd take them in all the time, lovely salt water all the time
 
*toddles off to measure up the wood store that father keeps, and to make drawings....*

our stream would be perfect for doing this!! and would save me trying to persuade Ron to stand in the stream for 5 minutes at the end of our Sunday, post-hunting, hack!
 
Very old technique, I remember reading an ancient book with this in, horse hobbled (?) and left in a fast flowing shallow river. Salt water is apparently even better.
 
be positive said:
I have a fairly fast moving stream on my boundary but the banks are too steep to safely negotiate and the cost of setting something up so I could use it would be prohibitive otherwise I would use it instead of hosing, that looks really good and the horses relaxed in the pens.
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To reduce the bank levels, the hire of a mini digger for the day £80? A competent operator for a few hours, another £80? A fencing contractor for a couple of hours to drive in posts and erect rails and a gate, complete with materials, another £200? It could be done in stages and as and when funds permitted. It's do-able!

Alec.
 
We have a local shallow stream that comes by the yard . After hunting we always dropped off the horses in the neighbouring village and walk up the stream home it solved two problems it cooled the legs and washed the cambridgeshire clay off them as well.
 
We have a stream at one of the racing yards, starts off shallow and gets to just over knee height. We walk them through it after hard work. We just need to make one at the other yard near the gallop and we will be sorted!

The stream that runs along the edge of my field is too deep to do this with - chest high on a 17hh so it would drown a Shetland. I do live 15mins away from the Loch though so I spent a fair bi of time down there with my injured beasts lol

Then this happens ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAQLkI3EpMk
 
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