RE: Fwd: re:fighting horses

["Kathy Mayeda" <kathy_mayeda@atce.com>]

Turning a horse out into pasture with a halter is NOT a good idea.
I don't think it's a personal choice issue - I do not know a single
person wherever I boarded turn out a horse with a halter. Yes, there
are escapees, but if they can't be caught there is a serious training
issue happening anyway.

Actually, the breeder of my horses leaves halters on babies sometimes
because of this issue.  This was not a good thing for my horse,
because he actually outgrew the halter while it was still left on him!
I didn't own him at the time, but I distinctly remember him being
left by himself in a pen in the back as a 2 yo because he was still intact.
Bening neglect.

Maybe turning the stall bound horse by himself in the turnout is
a "personal choice".

K.


-----Original Message-----
From: Carolyn Burgess [mailto:carolyn_burgess@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 3:24 PM
To: ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: RC: Fwd: re:fighting horses


>Now, there's two schools of thought on that issue:
>
>Don't turn them out with halters, they can get caught on stuff and they
can
>break their necks
>or
>Turn them out with their halters, it is the only way to catch them if
they
>get out.
>
>Personally, I don't like to turn them out with halters on, but I can 
>imagine
>someone writing in and saying that if they hadn't turned their horses
out
>with halters on, they would never have been able to catch them when
they
>escaped from the paddock or pasture (it happens, even to the most
>conscientious owner).  On this issue, I don't believe there is a right
or a
>wrong, just a personal choice.
>
>Carolyn Burgess
>
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> >Horses should never be turned out with their halters on.
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