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Location: Texas | My horse will be making the trip this weekend and this is the longest he's been hauled in his life. I plan to stop halfway and wrap his legs with sore no more poultice and pack feet with either magic cushion or poultice? Which one would be better? What else can I do? |
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Location: Oklahoma | 6 hours really isn't much. As hot as it is out right now depending on where you are, I don't recommend wrapping. Your horse can sweat and then kick at the wraps and do more damage. I'd put bell boots. I would offer hay for the haul and offer water when you stop for fuel. |
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Location: Where I am happiest | TwistedK - 2014-09-17 10:56 AM 6 hours really isn't much. As hot as it is out right now depending on where you are, I don't recommend wrapping. Your horse can sweat and then kick at the wraps and do more damage. I'd put bell boots. I would offer hay for the haul and offer water when you stop for fuel.
Exactly!
6 hours is a pretty easy haul. Get in and go and dont drag the trip out unneccessarily. Wraps will build heat and the more you fuss, the more they stress. If you can offer water without disturbing them much then do so, but if the trailer situation makes you have to climb in their with them, or unload then he can wait untill he gets there to settle and drink. If you want to do something, then the best thing you can do and will benifit him the most is load him with electrolytes starting 2 days prior so he's good and hydrated and will stay hydrated. |
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
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| I probably wouldn't stop and let them out for just 6 hours and I don't wrap - used to but the wraps seem so hot in the summer. Have a fun, safe trip! |
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Location: Nevada | Just Drive!!!!!
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | ThreeCorners - 2014-09-17 11:06 AM TwistedK - 2014-09-17 10:56 AM 6 hours really isn't much. As hot as it is out right now depending on where you are, I don't recommend wrapping. Your horse can sweat and then kick at the wraps and do more damage. I'd put bell boots. I would offer hay for the haul and offer water when you stop for fuel. Exactly!
6 hours is a pretty easy haul. Get in and go and dont drag the trip out unneccessarily. Wraps will build heat and the more you fuss, the more they stress. If you can offer water without disturbing them much then do so, but if the trailer situation makes you have to climb in their with them, or unload then he can wait untill he gets there to settle and drink. If you want to do something, then the best thing you can do and will benifit him the most is load him with electrolytes starting 2 days prior so he's good and hydrated and will stay hydrated.
Considering I have to drive 3-4 hours one way to even find a one day jackpot to go to most of the time, I don't do anything special on a trip like that. As mentioned, electrolytes would be a good idea, since he's not been hauled that far before. That will help make sure he drinks enough when you get to where you are going. I keep hay or hay pellets in front of mine at all times on the road, to avoid ulcer issues. |
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Location: 31 lengths farms | With as little as I get to haul 6 hours is a long haul for my horse also. When we went to Pendleton, which is about 11 hours, we hauled 6 hours the first day, stopped to offer water and then again to get them out and walk them around about 3-4 hours into the drive. I put bell boots and their Old Macs on them along with a good amount of shavings and after we stopped to walk them I tossed a small amount of hay in for them also. Stayed over night at a fairgrounds so they could be turned out in pens and then made the rest of the haul the next day basically repeating the offer of water and getting them out to walk them around. Do not let them graze anywhere you stop, you never know what has been sprayed or not.
It was hot so did not wrap legs the second year... |
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Don't Wanna Make This Awkward
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Location: Texas | Thank you everyone for the info about the legs. I never would have thought of that. |
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Location: NC | Both mine have been hauled from ny to tn and back 2x. That was the longest either of them had ever been on trailer. First time we drove straight thru (only had 1 horse going down). Will never do that again. Didnt unload just opened divider so he could move a bit. Way home and 2nd trip we stopped about halfway for the night. They had hay bags in front of them all time and offered water with gatorade when stopped for fuel (was alot with 2500 gas hog! They also both love gatorade so it was easy to mix) I didnt go in, would drop bars on windows and offer thru. (went in once and my mare stepped on my foot!) Didnt wrap and i think just put bell boots on (may not have). Only thing i made sure to have on was fly masks since left their drop downs down and have no netting on them |
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Balance Beam and more...
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Location: 31 lengths farms | I will not haul with windows down, The windows have slides on them with screens, we did open those and hauled with the first slot that just had hay in it window dropped and the very back slot window dropped also, kept their fly mask on them to keep shavings and hay or bugs from blowing into their eyes. |
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Location: never in the right place | wet your hay in the haybag, at least horse will have moisture. |
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The Resident Destroyer of Liberal Logic
Location: PNW | rockinas - 2014-09-17 11:16 AM
ThreeCorners - 2014-09-17 11:06 AM TwistedK - 2014-09-17 10:56 AM 6 hours really isn't much. As hot as it is out right now depending on where you are, I don't recommend wrapping. Your horse can sweat and then kick at the wraps and do more damage. I'd put bell boots. I would offer hay for the haul and offer water when you stop for fuel. Exactly!
6 hours is a pretty easy haul. Get in and go and dont drag the trip out unneccessarily. Wraps will build heat and the more you fuss, the more they stress. If you can offer water without disturbing them much then do so, but if the trailer situation makes you have to climb in their with them, or unload then he can wait untill he gets there to settle and drink. If you want to do something, then the best thing you can do and will benifit him the most is load him with electrolytes starting 2 days prior so he's good and hydrated and will stay hydrated.
Haha exactly this! I'm glad I'm also not the only one that will haul four hours each way for a one day run :) |
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Location: Phoenix | I would just load up and go, no stops, no wraps. When you stop for gas, open up the window and let him look around and offer him water. Sometimes I just hang a water bucket in the trailer and I always have hay in front of them as well. |
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| If its good weather, crack the windows in the back. Offer some hay and use bell boots. Have a safe trip! |
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Location: Florida.. | hammer_time - 2014-09-20 5:10 PM I would just load up and go, no stops, no wraps. When you stop for gas, open up the window and let him look around and offer him water. Sometimes I just hang a water bucket in the trailer and I always have hay in front of them as well. ditto... no wraps... no stops but for fuel offer water a few carrots and have hay in front of him.. electrolytes when you get there..Id try to make it in cooler times of day.I bed it down good though with shavings
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Location: home for the winter...what a dumb idea | Drive ....I give electrolytes past and probiotics before leaving on a long haul 10+ hours....both my horse hauled good never had to stop and let them out when traveling 17+ hour. They eat and drank good .... Offer water at gas stops and grain at normal meal times. ...hay all the time. |
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What is your routine for long hauls(6 hours)