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after a 45min trip (with a bit of pushing up hills), which normally only takes 10!!!! we got to our very snowy yard!
decided to turn out horses while we mucked out, one at a time..... 1st went out and 1/2 way through the muck out, came back and joined me!!!! decided hed had enough snow for the day....wanted to warm up and eat haylage, not snow :)

2nd horse goes out.... and we decided to stay with her! good job we did...... ate some snow and then decided to roll!!! well after a good scratch on her left side...went to her right and GOT STUCK! completly stuck with her legs positioned 45 degrees from the ground! there was no way she was getting up....her bum was wedged in a hole and the rug had slipped round and was so tight i was suprised i didnt need to cut it off!

so pleased dad came with me today! we had to scrabble around over her, undoing all rug straps, digging snow from under her legs and body, trying to turn her back the other way by her legs(this was never going to work...shes 17.2 and 725!kg). eventually we got hold of her rug underneath her and pulled her up!!!!!

but she was a star!!!! once she realised she couldnt do anything herself to get up, she lay there, perfectly still while we got her sorted out, didnt panic at all.....looked like she went to sleep (or gave up!). didnt once try to kick or struggle away from us... so proud of her!

some people have been really rude about her recently...and i was beginning to believe them - competly changed my mind! :)

so anyone else have a slight heart attack today?
 
awhh what a good girl for staying still! we were taking our 3 year old and 12 year old out to the school for a leg stretch in the snow and all of a sudden the 3 year olds legs just went from underneath her :o she hit the ground with a thud and got up calmly again and was sound so she must have hit some ice :( she wasnt even messing about she was just wandering along. oh well they are all in now, they didnt want to go out anyway i just needed them out of the way :)
 
Our yard has little patches that are a bit icy but as long as you stick to the edge of the path you are fine to get to the fields. I am so glad my horse is extremely sensible and well mannered in hand so he goes where I put him along the edge and that he doesn't pull and allows me to hang on to him while I tiptoe along the more icy bit!
 
wen to give mine breakfast this morning, they r out 24/7 but got so bloody excited to see me started galloping and bucking their way through the snow, one look a small slip and scared her self to death so stuck to trotting while the shetty did looped around her at a canter! make some pretty patterns in the snow! :D
 
Fransurrey said:
Sorry op, but I did have a good laugh at that. Can just imagine her lying there with a thought bubble saying, "******! " :D
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i think that was exaclty what she thought! and then she had a look on her face which was similar to 'i can't go on!, i can't hinder your progress futher, leave me here to die'!... with that she put her head flat on the ground and closed her eyes......... drama queen!

i was debating whether or not the firebrigade would come out for a horse that was, essentially, lieing in the snow? she more or less got cast by a snow drift! :rolleyes:

2 people trying to role 725kg of horse to its other side was NEVER gona happen.......just imageing the fire crews trying to lift her up...... how embarrising! :o
 
Hahaha awww 'go on without me! Save yourselves!' Its sweet when they realise they're in a pickle and trust you to help without them thrashing around making it worse :-) bless her!
 
We had one who did something similar, one year, in a sort of hollow in the field. the others were out as well. She called very quietly (we can only suppose that she really didn't want the other horses to come to her rescue, in case one of them decided to kick her up) to let us know about her plight. Sis and I rolled her back over with something of a struggle but she was only 15.2hh and about 500kg, so not as big as yours, OP, but we did think we might have to ask the neighbours to give us a hand.
 
I met another livery on the road in her 4x4 who said the hill down to our yard wasn't too bad, so I thought given that its covered by trees it had been sheltered by most of the snow. How wrong was I, got to the top of the slope and thought crap this is a bad idea, tried to reverse and park up so I could walk down the hill, I'd obviously reached the point of no return there was no way my car was going back. Had to very slowly roll down the hill sliding around, good job there is a second road out of the farm that slopes more down than up or I would have been camping down with the horses with only haylage and frozen carrots to eat!!
 
Yes my little monster jumped the fence :mad: he has been doing it a bit at bringing in time recently but only to the next field. This time he jumped in to next door over barbed wire :eek::mad: thankfully their gate on to the road was shut and their field has lots of grass so he was happily munching. Seriously considering hobbling him as even a double fence doesn't stop him, brat!

He was totally unharmed by his exploits thankfully and he had plenty to eat where he was.
 
Yes it happened to me yesterday, my two are living in the barn just now, don't want to go out, I'm busy haying and making beds, turns round to see that they had let themselves into the hay/straw area with not a lot of room to move, the mare was between two round bales, unable to squeeze through, unable to back up because of the barn door, so on went a headcollar, got my lad back into their area and bolted the gate, had to open the barn door onto a very icy yard and back the mare up over a drainage channel, (it's an adapted cattle barn) she was a star, didn't panic, did what I asked and was returned to her stable safe and well.
Note to self, remember the laddo is an escape artist
 
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