tips for transporting and settling horses into a new country

[Qru]

Think I will also post in the overseas section of the forum but will start here.

Myself and ponio are moving to the UK from Cyprus in early September and I was wondering what tips people have to help your horse settle into a new country.

How they've helped their horses adjust to temperature change - whether it being cold to hot or vise versa.
Change in diet, tips for the transport journey and anything else really.

The main one that I was given was: don't get to the UK and whack him in a lovely green, grassy paddock after never being on grass livery EVER - introduce it slowly!

Oh and don't clip him

 

[Honey08]

Personally, if its at all possible, I would try and bring a few bales of what you're feeding and some of your hard feed, so you can adjust the feed over slowly. Turn out wise, build it up, hopefully on a not-so-lush field.

As for clipping and rugs, you just play it by ear, if he is cold add a rug, if not don't.