Re: picket lines

["Duncan Fletcher" <dfletche@gte.net>]

Chris -

Any stake out where the feet of the horse can be entangled in the 'lead' has
potential problems. But I have watched what happens with rope and heavy
chain, and the chain does not tend to loop tight around the legs as rope
does. Some day when you have nothing better to do, go sit out and watch your
horse on a stake where he is going to move around to graze: try it with rope
and watch for an hour, then repeat with heavy chain (I am assuming you have
a reasonable calm horse - otherwise I would not it try it with anything).
Now if he stands in one spot for that time, you won't learn anything :-). I
learned this from my first vet, and damned if he wasn't right. Now the use
of heavy hose (that can't be bent into a small loop) as suggested in another
post is even safer. Even safer yet, would be to a highline, but then he
can't graze.

Duncan Fletcher
dfletche@gte.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Paus <paus@micoks.net>


>Using chains to keep horses tethered sure raises red flags to me!
>
>chris paus & star