Which would your horse choose 2ft deep luxurious bed or 2 ft sloppy mud?

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Archie lives out but the weather being so diabolical I thought he must want to come in tonight for respite. So I laid a huge bed, walls up to my armpits nearly, deep bed, two haynets, lovely warm feed.

Bought him in from his soggy muddy field along the flooded path. Changed his dripping rugs for soft and fluffy fleece. He ate his food and then proceeded to tear his bed apart, roll a couple of times, snort, pace around the box. I thought he would calm but eventually popped his head collar on, a new dry outdoor rug and off we walk back down the flooded path, bath to his soggy muddy field in the rain. Popped his hay in his hay box and left him munching very happily and very contentedly away. Gone was the maniac I had tried to calm in his box.

Clearly he prefers it out than in. What a blimin waste of time I spent fluffing up his bed x

Luckily for me, this means a lay in in the morning ... again x
 
mine would (and is) rather be in!!!


she will fight to get into her stable - i can leave the door open and she wont barge out or even go out - even minus haynet :o (shes two btw)!


she has awful mudfever so shes in until it clears! i can imagine it will be spring at this rate!
 
Mud, every time! This is the demon bog monster today:
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Bit different from his show picture in the sig!
 
Brought Alf in yesterday gave him a nice net of hay and a bit of feed - he threw the feed (alfalfa chaff) on the floor left the hay and settled down to eating the Bliss bedding......special....:rolleyes:
 
I must confess, I much prefer him being out, no rushing to put out in the mornings and bring in last thing. But I feel so guilty. He doesn't care in the slightest though, as he reminded me tonight.
 
Out if tried to shut the door on them not sure if they could wander in and out although they only ever go into the shelter in hot fly ridden weather
 
Taz would much rather be in, they dont get hay in the field, and he lives in over night, he can hear what the weather is like in his stable, there are times that i cant talk him into coming out the stable so he just stays in
 
My arabs like to come in to there lovely stables, BUT only for a few hours, then they want to go out in the rain and mud { which is fine with me as less work}
 
Even my yearlings and two year olds tried to stay in their big barn rather than go in field today. We had to bodily tow them out and they hung around the gate for an hour or so and we gave in and put them back indoors. We have not heard a peep from them since.

As for the dogs - 2 great danes - I failed to even tow them out and went for a walk on my own!
 
I kept one of mine in all day today as it was horrid here. I went up about 7pm, put his turnout on and kicked him out for the night as its so mild and he had been in for 24hrs

He tried to get back in to the stable several times then walked up and down the concrete strip under the overhang as if the mud was molten lava
 
Mine prefer both. Happy to go out but equally happy at the end of the day to come in to their 5 star hotel. All at the gate in the afternoon in a nice orderly cue and wait patiently to be brought in.

Terri
 
My youngsters and brood mares go out and come in loose.
I opened the mares door and they walked out into the yard. Opened the loose barn to let the three youngsters out and they all walked to the hard track, turned around and walked back into their respective stables!

If they are out and it is pouring if they see me they are standing around the gates waiting to come in. If I ignore they start calling to me.

I cannot see the point in them being out in the torrential rain standing in mud with their heads down and backsides to the hedge looking miserable and shivering off what they ate during the night.
 
I don't have mud on my farm (very lucky with the lay of the land and soil type) but my horses always love it when I bed down their barns and field shelters, especially the broodmares. They all love to paw and roll, play and have fun in the straw. Only really on the days I bed down though, otherwise they always choose to be outside.
 
definitely in, in fact one decided that after a few days in he wanted to go out, pushed out of the stable, stuck his head out of the barn, turned round and put himself back in! Hasn't tried to leave again, the rest had to be forcefully removed to be ridden and dragged me back in.
 
My 7 hardy natives are out, we dont have stables... I only rent land.... My IDX is out in the best warmest rug I can afford even though she is old as at my last place she kicked several holes in the wooden stables :( so she lives out now .

My natives arent rugged and live out au natural, muddied up to the eyeballs all winter :)

My Shetland positively sulks if she is stabled by refusing to eat the hay :D:D
 
Tess our cob would much rather be out, at the moment she is ina lovely lush padock that hasn't been used for a good 3 years so is scoffing her face.

Saying that on the old padock she wouldn't want to come in she likes to keep me busy by turning herself into a mass of mud and poo stains :D
 
Mine wants to be in, no questions asked. When t s windy, rainy or both she will begrudgingly go out in the field, only to stand at the gate, whinnying anytime she sees a person. If she is ignored for more than half an hour, she will get stressed. She had over 6 years on a race yard, she likes her luxuries :-)
 
Another whos horse would choose in every time!

I have to drag her out to the field in the morning and by mid-day every time she sees a person she will run over to the gate and neigh to them! Pop her back in her box and that is the last you hear from her for the day.
 
mine prefer to be in, got 2 hardy little natives but they would rather be in than out, the only time they pester to go out is when they've had to stay in for a day due to weather and then they only want to go out and have a little walk around before dragging us back to the stables.
my big lad loves his stable, he has to be dragged out the stable on a daily basis and is always waiting to come in.
 
The Tank would always choose to be out.

The Arab would rather be in.

But then - you can trace his bloodline all the way back to the desert.

His descendents would live inside the human's tents in rough weather.....even though he was really born in Wigan :p

So - OP, Obi would be grateful for your efforts of making the stable nice...even if your horse doesn't appreciate it :D
 
My two have a field shelter, thickly bedded down with a good two foot of compacted straw, lovely and springy! They have quite a large rubber matted yard area outside with the big hay rack attached to the outside of the stable, i also always hang an extra haynet in the shelter itself. So when its chucking it down, do they go in and shelter?? nope! they wont walk the six foot to the shelter and stand out of the rain! Only thing they use the shelter for is peeing lol :D
 
Mine like to be in. I normally turn her out about 11ish in the morning and when the weather is horrid I have to drag her to her field. I bring her in around 4ish and she is waiting at the gate, pawing and bucking, she literately can't wait to get in her stable.
 
out - although i hay in the field shelter - so she eats in there asap - then wonders off out in all weather for a snooze!
(she is on ad lib hay but i've got it down to a fine art and they now have a hay net each in the am - leave tiny amounts - then go outside all day then 2 haynets over night - if i feed any more then it gets wasted and the pull it out of the nets and peed on it - disgusting animals!)
 
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