Keeping a horse on their own?

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Was dreading the day my fellow livery vacated the yard, as the thought of ponio being kept on her own was making feel very guilty and I had all sorts of scenarios going through my mind - pony lonely, getting depressed, playing up when ridden etc etc. Anyway, since her fieldmate was sold over two weeks ago, she has been an absolute star! Instead of becoming tricky she has become the most adorable girl and appears to be finally growing up and behaving herself.

Am interested in other peoples experiences who keep a pony on their own, good or bad!
 
My friend was also dreading it when our mutual friend had to re-home her horse at short notice, we thought Z would be beside herself but after the first day she was fine and seems actually to be alot happier and settled on
her own. There are horses next door that she can see and the field looks on to a busy road so there is lots going on and in a ideal world she would have a equine companion but due to my friends ill health she's not in the position to take on a new horse. If Z ever does get upset there is always the option of a sheep or something similar to keep her company xx
 
Donkey loved being on her own - no-one else to eat her food or share the attention! Ben doesn't really mind either way, Barry and Okey would just go demented! Barry is only truly happy when there is someone opposite him as well as on each side, Okey just takes the stable apart so he can go looking for a friend!!
 
If JB is in the field across the road with the mare and other gelding and they take them both out he calls on and off till one returns. If he is on our back field and is put there on his own he doesn't bother and is quite happy to look across a few fields but does not go running up and down. My other horse used to shout and get all sweated up if his field companion was taken out so when he left the yard I put him in a field he had not been in with the field companion and he never even shouted was quite happy on his own.:)
 
Lucy lives on her own. I think she prefurs it. She used to live in a field with 10 other horses and she would always be at the opposit end of the field to them (not because they didn't want her with them or they where bullying her because she was the boss over any food you put in the field :D)
 
My last loan horse came to me with one other horse in the field, he had been living in company with a small herd of geldings all his life so was a bit of a change for him.

Other horse was used to being on his own, and mine was left for hours at a time when my friend did her endurance training, and I think it actually made him grow up a bit! Instead of acting his age (nearly 5years old), he started to act like a wise old man and wouldn't bat and eyelid or break into a trot if other horses I hacked with bolted!
 
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