Stabling Alone - your thoughts please

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Have you ever been in a position of stabling your horse alone, whether on box rest or otherwise?

I am currently in a position whereby my horse has grazing friends that he can see from his paddock so is 100% settled and comes into the yard alone and has no issue at all with that. But I will need to bring in at night once it gets muddier to save my grazing and no other horses will be in direct view - What would you do?

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depends on the horse as to whether it will bother him really. my tb came in every night but could see his friends in the field and he didnt care .x
 
Completely depennds on the horse - some would be fine, some would hate it.
Last winter my mare had to be stabled overnight because of mud fever and she was the only one for a few weeks until the others started coming in. She was happy as long as she had a nice big haynet to scoff :)
 
Hi,
my lad lives alone, there are some horses down the road he can hear now and then, but he cannot see them. He is fine, but he uses his stable more as a field shelter and goes in and out when he wants. I think it really depends on the horse. Try practicing with him for short periods, with hay, or feed, brushing him, you outside the stable, in sight, out of sight etc and just see how he reacts.
 
My gelding pony is absolutly fine being in or out on his own, but the mare can be a bit silly. If she has a feed and I am around she is fine but if im off to check the others she shouts her head off but evetually settles down. (she cannot see the fileds from her stable) Once she is in a routine she is fine though, she just needs to get used to it.
 
My boy has been stabled on his own for months due to being the only one on box rest. He hasn't seemed to mind.

He's now out during the day with a pal and in on a night on his own. Soon the rest of the horses will be in for winter on an evening so he'll have company again (as I think he's starting to like it)
 
I thought not - but my horribly injured broody has been on her own at the vets for 2 weeks and has been fine - except for when a horse there for a scope came and went. Changing my thoughts tbh.
 
When Genie was ill in the summer she went in the bullpen alone in the day (apart from the odd occassion I put Titchy in with her, but as it's not enormous didn't want to do that too much), and was in on her own at night. She's regularly in on her own and really doesn't care.

I knew a horse that lived completely on her own and was absolutely fine. She was one of those that didn't like other horses anyway.
 
I know what you mean, some people are surprised when you say you have only one horse. My lad, has 5 dogs, (2 are great danes), me my OH, (and 2 wild, white storks that wander around with him catching flies, they are so sweet).
He talks to the neighbours when they are here, in case they are digging up carrots!
I guess we are all his herd now.
Before he retired he was stabled full time and always with loads of other horses, but now, even when we have a horsey visitor, he is not really interested, unless they are receiving polos! When we hack out he hardly looks at horses we pass, even when they neigh or gallop around.
Since he has lived here he has grown a lot in self confidence, I guess he feels safe and comfortable in his little domain!
i have never had a horse on its own before, and I am happy that he is so settled.
 
Depends on the horse, last winter I stabled my horse with a friend, she had her horses in the barn but no room for mine so he had his own stable/small barn at the back with no friends in sight or smell, I was concerned about it but he was more than happy to have his own space, he did have the valley to look over to!!
 
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