Winter turnout, arrghh!

TallyHo123

TallyHo123

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We have pretty good fields and don't have limited turnout through the winter. My two girls live out all year but my gelding, who I have had for 2months, lives in through the night and out in the day.
Had a few field problems with him at the start, he's a quiet boy in the field and he was getting chased round in one field (pretty badly) he's now settled in a field but there is only another 5 in the field and the others are not getting turned out until about 9am weekdays and 10-11am weekends and being brought in about 4-4.30pm
I have work/uni and apart form that I don't want my horse stood in a stable all morning!

YO has said there isn't any other fields he can go in, luckily he doesn't mind being in the stable.

Just a rant/ramble but Tea and buscuits for anyone who reads!
 
Can you not ask another owner to turn out when they turn out and bring in, if you leave your horse dressed in turnout rug ready for the field, and then do them a favour in return, such as put feed/haynet in in the morning? We tend to do this at our yard. I'm there from 6am and ready to turn out by 6.30, so I feed one of the other geldings and turn him out with mine, and if the other owner is there before me in the afternoon/evening, she brings mine in...
 
Trouble is 2 of them are owned by the same person and she's ermmm well not very friendly! And the other 3 get put out by a woman on our yard who people pay. I don't mind paying for my horse to be turned out but I don't like the idea of him being in for such a long time. His legs fill a bit aswell when he is stood for too long.
 
I think in that case, I would pay the woman who puts them out....my TBs legs swell when he's stood in but I bought some equilibrium stable wraps and he's fine now - just a thought! Hope you get it sorted. x
 
I'm at a very big yard and the fields are no where near each other. There is a field near his with a few ponies in and I put him out the other morning to see what he was like when they were there, it stressed him more as he was pacing up and down their fence.
 
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