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Re: [RC] How Do YOUR Endurances Horses Live? - Joe LongOn Wed, 10 May 2006 17:11:44 -0700, "Karen Green" <kgreen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: More newbie questions! I'm very interested in learning how your horses are housed... Barns, 24/7 out, or some mix? At your home or boarded? Dry pasture? Irrigated? 20 acres of pasture, with some steep hills and rocks. Access to barn free-will. No irrigation, need to feed hay from fall to spring. Trough filled from well. You can see photos at www.rnbw.com/ranch.html Do you ride on your property? Ride off to trails? Trailer off to trails? I can ride for miles from my property, and have access to hundreds of miles of fabulous trails within a 20-mile trailer ride. Right now Kid is at a neat facility where he has AM to late afternoon irrigated pasture turnout... Otherwise he's in a pole barn, or "mare motel," with a 12x24 covered stall. I have 5 acres, and want to get 1 or 2 pastures set this summer and autumn... And perhaps have a shelter, but not a "barn." Coming from a "show barn" background, where horses are kept in box stalls 22 hours, turned out 1 hour, ridden 30 minutes, groomed 30 minutes, this is WAY different. Looking forward to more Ridecamp input... Karen Green Paso Robles, CA -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ridecamp Guest Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 3:59 PM To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [RC] Delurking newbie - spooking/turnout Please Reply to: Sharon Hahn sharon.hahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ========================================== Well, there's your problem right there. Many horses with enough natural "go" to be a good distance horse will go nuts on a restricted turnout problem. Try to find someplace where he can be outside 24/7 and you'll probably have a saner horse. Karen Green wrote: His pasture time has now been cut to 2 hours (don't want founder either, of course!), and we're spending 90% of our time out of arenas. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- Joe Long jlong@xxxxxxxx http://www.rnbw.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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