My horse paces the field

[JBM]

Update
Currently found a girl who might share Judy with me for the year in a livery. Known her for 6 years so trust worthy. Just seeing if her and Judy get along.
But I’ve started taking Judy in at night and turning her out during the day with a herd of sheep and she has greatly reduced fence walking and has started to graze instead of looking worried.
It’s seems as if she was missing some sort of routine? I talked to her previous owner and she said Judy always seemed happy with turnout with sheep and cows as she had always been on her own. She will walk into her stable at night and straight out to the field during the day and seems a lot happier. She might have been getting scared being out at night with no horses? She’s out in a field now during the day with sheep and there’s lambing sheep in the pens beside her at night

 

[Meowy Catkin]

I hope the share works out.

 

[laura_nash]

That sounds very promising. After a year on a yard getting to know each other you might well find you can bring her back to the farm with a little pony for company. I got mine from HHO and was clear on zero seperation anxiety bring my priority over age, prettiness etc and they found me a very self sufficient little guy.

Just be aware if she has been kept alone you might need to work through some clinginess when she first gets to the yard. If she's not interested and doesn't get any clinginess then she could be one of the rare ones who is happy without other horses, but much more likely you'll have a few of weeks of clingy nightmare until she's confident the other horses will still be there when she gets back.

ETA I mean HHO the Irish horse rescue (Hungry Horse Outside), not Horse and Hound Online.