Tavelling Shetlands and Minatures...

[Forget_Me_Not]

Brought my new pride and joy yesterday, lovely shinny 510 Epona, which means I can finaly travel the boys places

My first worry is Rambos 36" and this trailers designed for 17.2HHs so of course the breaching bar will be well above his head!? When I've traveled him before this has never been a problem, he doesn't run under it nor does not having a bar to breach againest bother him although it's not ideal is it.

Just wondered what everybody else does with their little ones regarding this?

My second question, do you just travel them naked or bother with mini travel boots, tail gaurd/banadage etc?

Any other tips for shetlands welcome!

 

[Jay89]

We had a triple st claire trailer which used to travel my dads 16.3hh cob and my 15hh cob no problem, but when it came to our 3 minis was a bit of a problem as they just wandered straight under the partitions. So in the end we made wooden partitions to keep them in, they could be removed at any time and just meant that they had to stay where they were put!!

And only ver put travel boots on the coloured mini to stop him pooin on his lovely white legs!!

 

[parsley]

The little Shetland we borrowed once traveled in the trailer with bales of hay in front to provide his breast bar and I never travel my boy with a breaching bar so we just carried on like that.

 

[1275gta]

Fit a lower set of breech bar brackets and put them at the height required for the Shetalnd.

They are about £40 quid from Ifor WIlliams.

 

[itsme123]

Ditto the bales of hay, we did this once with good effect.

I don't bother with boots and rugs, just tends to make shetties sweat up.

 

[Nudibranch]

Yep, bales of hay/straw. And agree on not bothering with clothing either as they do get very sweaty.

 

[Stinkbomb]

Oh me again, i can answer this one!!!!

This is what i did with my Ifor....

As said above we got another set of breach bars and hooks and fastened them lower down but we put a marine ply infill on the back as Inky was very good at limboing...

The original partition was just removed. I presume its a two split one as mine was??? Right when travelling the minis i removed the two parts of the partition front and back. On the centre pole of an ifor there are the two pin holes welded on in which the partition fits ( hope i can explain this..... ) I had another hole pin welded on the botton of the pole. The two partitions then just dropped to the floor. The top pin dropped in the original bottom pin hole and the bottom pin dropped in the new lower pin hole. ( get it???? )

This might help...

This way you dont need to add or remove anything from your centre partition as it just fits right.

Now to convert it back all you do is lift the partitions back upto the top pins very quickly and voila!!!!

It depends how far you want to go really. When the partitions were dropped i sorted it so i could fasten them to the side like this .....

which meant for shows i could have it like a little stable for Inky so he wasnt left tied up and he could do this....

Now obviously you couldnt travel little and large at the same time like this, but if you wanted to do that you could just still get extra breach bars but replace the rubber skirt with plywood to make it a full length partition...

In answer to your question about boots i think my last pic answers that!!!! Yes i get little boots made

Not that you will be thinking of it yet but if you do adapt it for minis you will sell it far easier and get a much better price, you just need to know where to advertise. I sold mine within an hour of putting it on the internet because it had been adapted!!!!!

 

[Fransurrey]

When I've borrowed someone else's trailer, I simply put two bales of hay at the front and remove the chest and breech bars. If there's no horse in the other partition, then I'd put hay in there, too, unless the partition goes all the way down. My shettie is an oldie, so he's able to use the hay to support his unsteady legs, as he can't brace like a bigger horse.