Those with a lot of horses...

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We currently have 11, who were all turned out in one field this morning, and then had to be brought in and split into two smaller paddocks, horses in one and ponies in the other.
Only 2 of us were left to do this so needed three trips and took far too long :p

Some won't go without another (or at least it is a lot easier to keep them together and they are usually one pony and one horse :rolleyes:) but we have to take at least two ponies and two horses to start with to keep them happy at the other end, etc.

Do you ever feel like you are trying to solve one of these puzzles? :D

River Crossing Game
You must transfer all the people (mum, dad, 2 girls, 2 boys, policeman, thief) across the river respecting the following rules:

The ferry can carry no more than 2 people.
Only the Adults (mom, dad and policeman) can operate the ferry.
Dad can not be in the presence of the girls w/out Mom
Mom can not be in the presence of the boys w/out Dad
The thief can not be alone with any of the family w/out the policeman.
 
LOL, yep! We have 14, currently split into 4 groups, although it should have been 5 but 2 snuck back in with their mates!! We are lucky in having all that will mix and match quite happily other than the stallions (and they would be very happy mixing with the mares, thank you very much!!) although they do mix happily with the geldings. We have 3 stallions who are turned out together, always with an older bolshy gelding to keep them in order, then we have the 3 biggies who need to be on good grass all the time and the fatty prone ones who are on not such good grass. The mare and foal are still on their own for now but can touch the others over fence lines. Farrier day is organised with military precision to ensure the fastest in and out we can manage so we don't keep him hanging around in between.
 
Haha I bet the stallions would :D
You sound very organised!
Ours can see each other since paddocks are just across the road but it is the shetland gelding (only boy out of the 11 and he was done late :rolleyes:) that squeals at everyone all the time and causes the most fuss and he is the 2nd smallest one :D

Haha oh yes, the farrier is always fun, we have a specific order so that the pairs are on the yard at the same time and things :D He gets lots of cups of tea :p
 
That makes managing my six sound easy!

I have two groups... Good doers... and Poor doers... 1 gelding and 2 mares in each group at the mo... although will hopefully be down to 5 before the winter... Simples... at least for now!
 
Don't ask! I need someone to organise my lot for me!

Here goes!

I have a TB and a Shetland mare in a field along the road bumming around getting fat.

I have the top half of the field split up so 2/3 of it goes to another TB and my old Shetland gelding who bullies anything 12hh or smaller. The other 1/3 of the field goes to the 2 lammi mares and the obese dieting 4yo mare - all of these are Shetlands.

Down the bottom field it is again split in 2. One half has my big Shetland Gelding to has sweet itch so is fully electric fenced in. THe other half in the 4yo Shetland Colt who is a fence hopper extraordinaire. They live quite happily in the same bit but for the sake of a fly rug being destroyed by said boistrous colt every 3 days they stay seperate.

Then in the stables we have Jeff, a TB who is still on strict box-rest until October. Ranger the old Shetland stallion who again has sweetitch and comes out for a hoooley for 3 or so hours during the middle of the day. The Welsh D Colt who looks at a fence that is in his way and then jumps it so he goes out for a wee while every day and comes back in before he gets bored. The darty is only in at the min as he has a bout of Lammi, his first and I will try my damnedest to make it his last. And then Pippa is in aswell, another sweetitch shetland who again comes out during the day in a confined paddock with a head collar on as she is a total madam to be caught - she breaks through post and rail for the fun of it!

Last but not least is my 4th and final TB who is still on box rest at work until the end of August then I will either build him a stable or chuck him on full livery for the winter as he has done a tendon and can't do much else until next summer at the earliest.

Because I have so many shetlands my farrier tends to be out every 2 weeks so he doesn't have too many small ones to do in a day.

If anyone would like to organise everything for me it would be very much appreciated :D
 
I think we're at 12, geldings plus 1 colt, it is complicated ;) We have thin and angry field, a fat and happy field but Ron is in days and Calv in nights as those 2 don't mix, and then the colts paddock. They have to be turned out in the right order to not get stupid too :rolleyes:
 
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