Supere
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Hi all, i’m looking for some advice.
I’m looking to move my two horses to a new yard - the yard they’re currently on they have all year turnout, however turnout in the winter is in a field that has very poor grazing, and is a mud bath. And aprox 35 horses in only field.
One of mine is 28, his teeth are worn meaning he has mash, and cannot pull grass easily. He is also however laminitic, and has cushings.
I have found a private yard, which has two stables, a field to do as we please with, a lovely school with jumps, however, does not have off road hacking.
My ridden pony is used to hacking out 5 times a week and we don’t do much in a school, the odd pop around some jumps here and there. He’s currently in a very large summer field with a large herd, so gets plenty of exercise.
The new yard would be just the two of them, in a smaller field we would need to restrict grazing on (put electric fencing to rotate grazing) , so much less space for him, and hacking would mean going down a lane for around 10 minutes, onto a small area of land to hack around.
He is not the best on the road, and can get very spooky, in turn making me very anxious. I’m worried that hacking is going to turn into not an option for us.
Alongside this, it would mean my older boy would not be able to go for walks, as the walk would be too much for him and most likely too stressful down the road, so would really be confined to the field, although i’m not sure this would bother him much. But he is also used to a large field.
However, we are looking to move somewhere closer to home, and move full stop as our current yard is no longer the best option for us. We also cannot access our older boy in the evenings to be able to feed him again (he is currently not of the best weight) in the evenings, and he needs more care than we’re able to give him here.
Most yards close to me i have contacted that would be suitable are full - as looking for turnout where they can share a field together due to the one being so old, and they both get on well.
I have thought about giving my boy some time off and teaching him to lunge, doing some ground work at the yard we have found, but i’m worried the big change in amount of turnout space or exercise may have an impact on him. We’d also have no one to hack with, so i would have to hack on roads alone when neither of us are fond of them.
*I might add my boy used to be fine with roads, but we have both got increasingly anxious about them, and have plenty of off road hacking here
I’m looking to move my two horses to a new yard - the yard they’re currently on they have all year turnout, however turnout in the winter is in a field that has very poor grazing, and is a mud bath. And aprox 35 horses in only field.
One of mine is 28, his teeth are worn meaning he has mash, and cannot pull grass easily. He is also however laminitic, and has cushings.
I have found a private yard, which has two stables, a field to do as we please with, a lovely school with jumps, however, does not have off road hacking.
My ridden pony is used to hacking out 5 times a week and we don’t do much in a school, the odd pop around some jumps here and there. He’s currently in a very large summer field with a large herd, so gets plenty of exercise.
The new yard would be just the two of them, in a smaller field we would need to restrict grazing on (put electric fencing to rotate grazing) , so much less space for him, and hacking would mean going down a lane for around 10 minutes, onto a small area of land to hack around.
He is not the best on the road, and can get very spooky, in turn making me very anxious. I’m worried that hacking is going to turn into not an option for us.
Alongside this, it would mean my older boy would not be able to go for walks, as the walk would be too much for him and most likely too stressful down the road, so would really be confined to the field, although i’m not sure this would bother him much. But he is also used to a large field.
However, we are looking to move somewhere closer to home, and move full stop as our current yard is no longer the best option for us. We also cannot access our older boy in the evenings to be able to feed him again (he is currently not of the best weight) in the evenings, and he needs more care than we’re able to give him here.
Most yards close to me i have contacted that would be suitable are full - as looking for turnout where they can share a field together due to the one being so old, and they both get on well.
I have thought about giving my boy some time off and teaching him to lunge, doing some ground work at the yard we have found, but i’m worried the big change in amount of turnout space or exercise may have an impact on him. We’d also have no one to hack with, so i would have to hack on roads alone when neither of us are fond of them.
*I might add my boy used to be fine with roads, but we have both got increasingly anxious about them, and have plenty of off road hacking here
