Transport for Miniature Shetlands

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Milliepops123

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I am hoping to invest in a couple of miniature shetlands in the next few months, which I would like to show. Do any of you out there have any experience in transporting these tiny chaps? I have access to a large horse trailer but don't know whether they will be safe?!? Please let me know how you guys get around this issue.

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I know people who show shetlands, standards mostly but would probably work for minis, and have found that most people buy the ifor williams farm trailers with the partitions and travel them across the way like it was a lorry. You could try a large horse trailer but they would probably fit under the breeching bars, so you would need to secure something in front and behind them to stop them from trying to go for a walk around the trailer.
 
If I travel them in a lorry they go in normally (side by side) but get tied short or cross tied so they can't get into next door's partition.

In a trailer then either loose, cross tied, or backwards facing (to stop them having space infront of them to go under).

Sheep/cattle trailers are the best thing if you want to invest specifically.
 
I show my mini Shettie...I have an Ifor Williams 505 as I have other larger ponies too. If I am travelling the tiddler I have a board which fixes to the front of the partition and goes across where the breast bar would be. It's specially made at Elspeth height :D so her head can go over like a stable door but she can't walk straight through where the bar would be :)
 
I was at a fair last year and saw a regular sized trailer (rear unload) that had been converted so that three minies stood facing forwards but it was arranged so that the front half of the trailer was a tack/changing area. Neat.
 
Thank-you for all your advice it is much appreciated. I had read on other sites that the livestock trailers could be dangerous and possibly not meet the laws for transporting horses - do any of you know about this?
 
Snoopy just has lower chest and bum chain thingies. He travles perfectly. Although youve gotta watch out for the jockey door, as he can open it and would fit out of it easily lol! had to put another bolt on!
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(ps hes not mine... i just lurve him :p)
 
alainax said:
Snoopy just has lower chest and bum chain thingies. He travles perfectly. Although youve gotta watch out for the jockey door, as he can open it and would fit out of it easily lol! had to put another bolt on!
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(ps hes not mine... i just lurve him :p)
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I always unload mine through the grooms door, they hop out quite happily, Charley loads himself that way too.

Milliepops,
Livestock trailers are perfectly safe for horses to travel in, they are generally wider and most horses travel crossways, the drafts like Percherons and Belgians have to keep their heads down sometimes though.

I had heard that it could be/or was illegal in the UK, not sure on the facts though as it was only during the course of a conversation. Quite honestly I can't see why, unless the slats are the ones that go to the floor, also perhaps because the floors generally are metal too, but a good layer of shavings sorts that out.

Does anyone watch Animal Cops? They are animal welfare and look at some of their trailers!
 
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