This is so much easier!!! :)

[Newbie84]

I moved my horses home a couple of weeks ago having had them in livery for over a year. They're now living out 24/7 with the use of a posh new 12x24 field shelter. I can't believe how much easier things are, and how much the boys have changed and become such chilled out horses. I'm so happy that they are able to be out 24/7 and not stabled from about midday until the following morning!

I have to say, i do feel a little sorry for them tonight as it's blowing a hooly out there tonight but they do have their shelter which they are using.

This is a temporary measure as I am getting some stables built in the next 6 weeks, but I'm starting to think they may become redundant, as this living out larky seems to suit them so well!

The only downside I would say at the moment is not having a tackroom close, or a school to ride in....but the evenings should be getting lighter in the next few weeks!

How do other people get on with their horses out 24/7?

 

[Dubsie]

Daughter has 2 ponies at home living out 24/7. One had only been stabled overnight we gave the choice but he prefers to be out with the other one rather than in overnight, and we bought a field shelter but they prefer to use the trees/hedges for shelter and save the field shelter for getting away from the flies in the summer!
For riding, we make do with a bit of flat paddock, but in the winter we almost exclusively box to pony club trainings 2-3 nights a week or hire a school, which although expensive the pc training is only marginally more than hiring a school. She also belongs to a riding club and we do some of their training too, also there's a local equestrian centre with indoor school about 5 miles away has a competition almost every weekend, which is pretty much how they get their exercise in winter as there's only busy roads to ride on for a few miles from home.
We keep the tack in the house, a spare room is the tack room (bungalow so all downstairs) and the conservatory is the rug room!