Weanling advice

[ycbm]

well that was meant as an initial introduction as I then said they would be put in together. Perhaps I wasn’t as clear as I could have been but Maybe ask for clarification instead of getting the pitchfork out and jumping to the conclusion that i want a youngster to be shocked if it tries to go anywhere near another horse.

I did not say that you wanted him to be shocked. But it's an absolutely predictable outcome of separating a baby from anyone to play with and socialise with by using electric fencing.

Please stop shooting me down for reading what you are writing!
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[Quigleyandme]

My two bought as weanlings and now three year olds were and are each other’s only companions except for the two, three week periods they have gone for training where they were turned out in a 10 acre field with an assortment of other horses and ponies with no issues. They have both travelled for two hours with a mare and three week old foal with no issues. They play host to my friend’s 19 year old dressage gelding and donkey companion regularly with no issues. I wouldn’t choose to keep a weanling or a horse of any age in individual turnout though and any older horse sharing would have to like/tolerate a fair bit of rough housing.