Travelling a weanling for 1st time!

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Hi, just some advice re travelling my 8 month old filly for the 1st time. She will be moved in an old style 505 which doesnt have the back flaps which close over, also she has never been tied up before. Should i travel in with her & leave her loose? in with her tied up? or not be with her at all? also partition or no partition? Journey will be approx 30mins, she has never been in a trailer or moved before.
 
when i collected my 15month who had never been anywhere, we took a pony who was a very relaxed traveller and this worked very well. our journey was over 2 hours and i travelled in the back and held the rope as mine had never been tied up before....im sure these days of health and safety this is not allowed, but years ago we did lots of things that are frowned on now...
 
Take out the partition, put a little bedding down (not so much she loses her footing) and try to borrow top doors.
Don't travel with her, and don't stop en route unless you hear a true catastrophe happening.
I am sure she will be fine.
S :D
 
what ever you do please don't travel in the trailer, its hugely dangerous and very illegal. Get top doors, any horse or foal in panic will aim for daylight. Partition out and a good straw/shavings bed.
 
thanks, i dont even know if the door flaps can be fitted i will check tomorro & see if i can get a set. unfortunately its the only box i own and no one at yard has a box they always use mine so its all i can use! no option for foal to stay in the field either as sharer is leaving so cant leave foal alone & my mare is on box rest. Also field is soooo wet no one even wants to use it for free so its needs rested.

I kno its unsafe in the box etc (i used to travel with a pony i had many many years ago) & often many hairy sails but may be my only option :-( if doors cant be fitted!
 
I've travelled both my own weanling and my friends home, first journies, separate times, both around the 2 hour mark in my 510. I was terrified haha and sought plenty advice so I went with loose, partition removed and a fairly large straw bed banked high at sides with haylage down at front for munching, no boots or anything, back top doors shut. Both arrived healthy, well, with minimum stress and both have subsequently loaded and travelled perfectly on many occasions since to go to shows (alone and together) which is reassuring :)

Please please don't travel in the back, just in case. And please try and get top doors.....youngsters are notoriously creative when it cones to finding exit strategies and you want to arrive cut free with a leg in each corner!
 
All partitions out and a straw bed. Please do not travel without top doors. Hire a lorry if you have to. It will be cheaper than having your foal throw herself over the gap.
 
Don't hire a lorry - nightmare getting them up the ramp. And then you have to get them off. We had to hire a trailer as horsebox was to steep.

Travelled my 4 month colt for 3hrs loose in the trailer without partition or breastbar. Closed all doors and left him in there. Some lay down, some travel backwards and some side ways.
Took 1hr to get him on (blindfolded in the end) by prepared as they are stubborn. And then he wouldnt come off when we got home.

4 months on he travels fantastic with partition and tied and with back top doors open.
 
There is no way you can travel a foal without shutting the top doors. It will head for daylight and it will jump/panic up to the gap, it doesn't bear thinking about the end result.

I fetched a 6 month old colt from the stud I bought him from, unknown to me the stud had not weaned him and used the sale/removal process as the weaning day. The trailer was backed up to the stable door, the mare led through and baby shut inside. All doors firmly closed and foal on straw no partition came down the M6 for an hour and half. Not a peep out of him, backed the trailer to his new stable and dropped the ramp. I fully expected a wreck, but no, he was calm and cool. He didn't come charging out and we waited for 15 mins or so for him to make his own way out (he had never had a halter on).

He settled as if nothing had happened, remarkable really but he was a RID, I did teach him to load in the normal way as a young horse and showed him as a yearling, he loaded and travelled well all his life.

For your baby 30 minutes safely locked away in a safe trailer will do him no harm, doors shut.
 
Well i tied her up today whilst i groomed her she pulled for a few mins then stood for 15/20mins field mate was nearby tho which prob kept her sane!

unfortunately my only option is use the box i have been trying all day to get one and the only place that hires is closed on Sunday. Going to leave the partition in and tie her up with a hay net and hope she is ok. OH wil drive very steady and i will go in the car behind with handfree on, keeping a close eye & if anything goes wrong i can tell him and he can stop imediately! It's only 15 mile journey so hopefully all will be ok.
 
Eeek definitely wouldn't want to be tying up a weanling inside a trailer for her first trip. If she panics inside the trailer and tries to pull back she'll frighten herself badly and probably always associate the bad experience with being inside a trailer. If you tie her tight enough she could even damage herself struggling to get free. And definitely DONT travel in the back with her (or any horse). That's a ridiculous idea. Not to mention illegal.

When travelling a weanling you really want to be able to remove the partition, lightly bed the inside with straw and allow the youngster to travel loose - BUT safely, with the rear top doors closed. If you cannot provide this with the trailer you've got then I suggest you postpone the trip until you can contact someone on Monday to arrange alternative transport. What's the rush.

You may go ahead with your plan and get away with it, but is it worth the risk just for the sake of a little more time and forward planning? Up to you, but I know what I'd be doing.
 
Take up the partitions do not tie up, if you cannot get top doors could you not get somebody to temp fit maybe some plyboard over gap you could maybe drill in to place them remove when journey is over.

Please do not leave it open it could cause a horrible accident.
 
totall my fault i know as i didnt even think about us not having the top doors. If i dont move her tomorrow morning it means she will be left alone for the 1st time in the field which runs alongside a railway line & road so dont want to risk that option either & risk her jumping out & killing herself & others!

I know im between a rock & a hard place but if partition & breast bar are in should i leave her un tied then?? as she shouldnt beable to turnaround anyway.
 
Trinity Fox said:
Take up the partitions do not tie up, if you cannot get top doors could you not get somebody to temp fit maybe some plyboard over gap you could maybe drill in to place them remove when journey is over.

Please do not leave it open it could cause a horrible accident.
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this might be an option i could look into
 
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