is quarantine a must?!

[MrVelvet]

Right person A has a horse recovering from a life threatening disease...

Person A moved said horse to nicer pastures for obvious reasons! Nicer pastures is home to person B with her few horses... Person B likes a bargain and likes to purchase horses from neighbouring countries.. Said horses come onto our yard - stay in for a bit and then go out onto nicer pastures!

2 week after horses start coming down with what is believed to be a virus..

Now my issue is that if person B persists this high turnover of horses Person As horse is gonna catch something unsavoury.

Does person A have an argument? Could Person A approach YO without seeming unreasonable? Or should they approach person B with their concerns? Surely horses should be seperate? Opinions? Experiences?

 

[Slightlyconfused]

In our previous comp yard the girl who got a WB youngster from holland had it in isolation for two weeks as its madatory.

I would speak to yo as its not only person as horse at risk but the whole yard too.

 

[natalia]

I keep mine in for about ten days on arrival and seperate from the rest. I don't think you have an argument as often when new horses arrive the stress knocks their immune systems down. They are often then prone to picking up any little thing going around. They might not arrive with a virus but they often pick one up! Or even just a chill. You would be best to suggest to person who brings in new horses that on arrival she gives them a dose of vitamins and maybe some electrolytes to help them recover quicker.

 

[Jools1234]

person a needs to move yards if they are concerned or would person a want to stop everyone competing, going to clinics, holidaying with their horse and have a two mile exclusion zone around said horse for any other equines?

 

[Shay]

Ideally new horses would be segregated on arrival at a yard - at least for 48 hours whilst they are wormed. But the reality is that this doesn't often happen. Jools is right - anywhere we take our horses is potentially a risk. Yes some things are more risky than others - personally we never share a water source and I wash down event stabling with Vikron having caught something at an event some time ago. But any horse to horse - and even human to human - contact is a risk. I certainly would not expect to quarrantine my horses every time we came back from a show!

If person A feels she must protect her horse from any risk - and I could understand if she felt that way - her only option is a completely closed yard, or her own yard. There are yards which are completely isoltaed from the horsey world around them - we actually have one near us. But they are not common and would depend on where you live. On her own land she would be able to entirely control who came on, with what and under what circumstances.