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| I'm curious to hear what everyone does when hauling their horses..
Do you use angle or straight haul? Back or front facing?
Do you use shipping boots/wraps?
On long trips, how often do you stop to give water, hay, and rest?
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Location: Fort Bragg North Carolina | 4 horse slant
No wraps but use hock boots on one
On long trips stop 4-6 hours feed like I would at home never spend the night on the road unless trip is longer than 15 hours |
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 I hate cooking and cleaning
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Location: Jersey Girl | Slant load, no shipping boots but I normally do haul with the BOT quickwraps on. I also put shavings in my trailer because my horse always pees in the trailer. |
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 I Chore in Chucks
Posts: 2882
Location: MD | 2 horse BP slant, front facing.
just overreach boots no polos/shipping boots. my trailer has rubber halfway up the sides and rubber on the trailer so I don't worry to much about them banging around back there. THEY ALWAYS HAVE A GOOD FITTING FLY MASK ON.
hay bags hung up for 2+ hours
Water every 4 hours, or every gas stop. I keep my gas tank 1/2 full when I travel so I tend to stop frequently enough. |
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Location: Texas | Softride boots or Easyboots with pads and hay for trips over an hour. Shavings. |
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 Underestimated Underdog
Posts: 3971
Location: Minnesota | 3 horse slant load.
No wraps or boots unless I was traveling a far distance, then I'd use boots.
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 Serious Snap Trapper
Posts: 4275
Location: In The Snow, AZ | Four horse slant, forward facing. It has mangers in it, so we can put a bit of hay or grain in during hauling. No wraps or boots. Its fully enclosed, so on hot days, drop downs are down(barred windows). During cooler months, we open front and back sliders a hair for air flow. As for another question, who ties while trailering? |
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Location: Oklahoma | 4 horse slant with ramp. All dividers have pads on them. No wraps, just bell boots. I put 3 bags of shavings in my trailer. Keep grass hay in front of them at all times. On distance hauls, every time I fill up the truck, I let it sit shut off for 30 minutes. I offer water at the stops. I never unload. When stabling overnight, I feed bran mashes with mineral oil in them to help keep the horses systems lubricated. |
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Rad Dork
Posts: 5218
Location: Oklahoma | 2 horse forward facing slant. Only BOT quick wraps if I will be saddling up immediately to start riding once I get there. I don't usually haul with hay as one gelding has bad allergies and I want to keep dust at a minimum, but I'll offer it and water once I get there. I have yet to make a trip over four hours away and since I'm by myself most of the time (and with a look-y horse), I would probably just pull over and kill the engine and get rid of the vibrations for a little while instead of unloading. I always tie ro try and prevent squabbles, but loose enought they can get their head down if the need to. |
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Location: White Mountains of AZ | 3 horse gooseneck slant-forward. My mare has equilibrium issues hauling in a straight load.. ( ???) I generally don't haul with hay to help with the dust. On warm days I'll open the drop windows (with bars so no heads sticking out!) I will tie, but loose where they can get there heads down to blow out, but not enough to get into trouble. And I do a quick release tie always! I like to let my horses out to stretch out after a few hours...but when your traveling with people its kinda hard if they don't do the same. Normally I don't use boots to haul short distances. If hauling with new or other horses I like to think I'm helping haha! |
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| slant, forward facing, no wraps unless over 12 hr trip and then use shipping boots, I don't let mine out of the trailer until 12hr's. They get a rest when I stop for fuel, I keep water buckets in the trailer and a bucket with alfalfa cubes. I clean and refill the water buckets(1/2 full) and add more cubes every time I stop for fuel. |
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Location: Kansas | stock combo, no leg wraps with a hay bag in front of him. |
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Posts: 1857
| ~BINGO~ - 2015-01-14 8:37 AM
Four horse slant, forward facing. It has mangers in it, so we can put a bit of hay or grain in during hauling. No wraps or boots. Its fully enclosed, so on hot days, drop downs are down(barred windows). During cooler months, we open front and back sliders a hair for air flow. As for another question, who ties while trailering?
We never tie... not sure if that's good or bad but works out good for us. I've had horses blow up in the trailer and if they were tied in, it would have been a nightmare to get them loose. |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | FlyingJT - 2015-01-14 9:20 AM slant, forward facing, no wraps unless over 12 hr trip and then use shipping boots, I don't let mine out of the trailer until 12hr's. They get a rest when I stop for fuel, I keep water buckets in the trailer and a bucket with alfalfa cubes. I clean and refill the water buckets(1/2 full) and add more cubes every time I stop for fuel.
Wow... I'm feeling like an idiot! I never thought to keep cubes like that for hauling. Great way to cut out the dust! |
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Location: Kentucky | 2 horse slant load, forward facing. No wraps. I don't tie mine either. Hay bag in front of them unless it's short trips (under an hour). I stop for water/rest every 3-4 hours.
Edited by Murphy 2015-01-14 9:27 AM
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
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Location: Phoenix | Don't have a trailer at the moment, but we've ways hauled in a 4-horse gooseneck slant, forward facing. No leg wraps.
On long trips it really depends....but typically we don't stop until we hit the 8-10 hour mark, and we usually rest for a good hour and try t find a fairgrounds of possible. On a longer trip I keep hay in front of them. If we stop for gas I offer water.
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Location: Heart of Texas | Two horse slant gooseneck. Don't tie. No boots. just enough shavings to absorb pee and prevent splash back. Fly mask for sure. Windows down w/ bars up, if super hot, turn on the fans to keep air flowing. When super cold, i keep a cooler or blanket on them with the windows open, not down. Hay and water every 3-4 hours. |
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Location: west of East Texas | 3 horse bumper pull slant. Hay is always in there.
99% of the time use shipping boots because I have a couple of horses who load and haul like a dream but do a rocket-launch thing getting out and will invariably hurt a leg if they are bare. I can step them in and out, one foot at a time, all day long, but not after hauling more than about 15 minutes.
Long trips varies on weather and roadside conditions. If it's hot, every 4 hours to gas up, unload to water and wash them down, let them chill and clean the trailer out if I can. If it's cooler weather, I'll still stop every 4 hours to gas up and let them be still but probably won't unload them but every other stop.
I rarely ever tie unless it's the one really mean mare that I've seen go under the divider to attack her neighbor. I only haul her about twice a year. (The shipping boots saved the legs for me there too.)
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | mine are knee deep in shavings.....i use boots.....3 horse angle..i have the drop down windows open if its hot (mine has bars so they are up)......i dont tie and i dont very often feed, as most of my trips are around the 5 hr mark (and to us thats just a hop skip and a jump...lol)
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Location: Oregon | 4 horse slant, forward facing
hauling 0-2 hours: no leg wraps, no hay, PHT blanket when headed to or from a race, not for just hauling to practice
hauling 2+ hours: soft rides, PHT 3-in-1's, PHT blanket, grass hay infront of them
mine are 99% of the time tied, I unclip them once I get to where I'm going to, before opening the back door.
Longest I'll haul without unloading/walking/rest is about 5 hours. Have small buckets for water for the longer 4-5 hour drives. |
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Location: Somewhere around here | mystiboo - 2015-01-14 3:05 AM
I'm curious to hear what everyone does when hauling their horses..
Do you use angle or straight haul? Back or front facing?
Do you use shipping boots/wraps?
On long trips, how often do you stop to give water, hay, and rest?
:)
Angle with dividers and front facing. No shipping boots or wraps unless the horse absolutely needs them. Shavings every time but the amount of how much changes with how many horses we're trailering. THe horses have hay in front of them at all times in the trailer but only offer them water whenever we stop to let their lets stretch. We try to give them rest around 4-5 hours of traveling, depending on how long the destination is. |
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 Off the Wall Wacky
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Location: Louisiana | My new years resolution is to be more diligent about T-Bo's trailering care. Fly mask every trip for one. A very well respected leg vet (he was in Vegas last month) told my friend who uses him that in his opinion wrapping legs for trailering is more important that boots or polos when running. I bought a brand new set of no-bows and wraps for the year.
Most of the time he is in a slant load forward facing with no mangers. Every now and then we will haul with friends and he gets to experience a stock trailer. He is either in the front or back with my fiance's roping horse (his buddy) protecting the other horses from him LOL. On those trips he is the only barrel horse on a trailer full of team roping horses.
The longest I have hauled is 6 hours and we don't let them off the trailer for safety reasons. I used to stop and offer water but they never drink so now we just make a point to sit down for a meal to give them time to chill and rest. |
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| 2 horse Bp straight load. There is always hay in there so they have something to eat. I don't tie my guys unless someones horse is riding with me. Usually wont wrap legs unless there is some specific reason, but I do have bells or overreach boots on. When we do long hauls over 6 hours I offer water at every gas/food stop and refill hay bags.
Edited by lilac lane farm 2015-01-15 4:33 AM
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Location: 31 lengths farms | Hauled for years in a 2 horse straight load with ramp...miss it. Now have 4 horse slant front facing, slats on back side with plexi glass, slide open windows with screens on front or they can drop down. Haul with windows closed, slide windows open. Spring thru fall plexi glass out on back side. Anything over an hour haul I put their old mac boots on, bell boots on the backs, no wraps, plenty of shavings. I use ties with quick release, only on longer hauls do I feed in the trailer and then usually when we stop to eat ourselves, and offer water. I do not usually haul real long distance so if we are on the road for more than 4 hours we usually try to find a safe place to unload and walk them around at about that point into the trip. |
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The Resident Destroyer of Liberal Logic
Location: PNW | BIG two horse straight load. It has a walk through area in front of the horses instead of mangers. It's GIANT. I can take the divider set up out if I want and turn it into a 2 horse slant, but I dont.
I haul long distances with standing wraps + BOT hock wraps. Always a hay bag and water.
Short distances, I don't wrap unless I plan to ride immediately or it is cold - in which case I use BOT quick wraps. Again, I always put a hay bag and water bucket. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | 3 horse slant load on long hauls. Stock trailer for local stuff because my LQ trailer is too big for most places we go locally. My mare gets Soft rides on the front feet and polo wraps with DMSO on back legs. The others don't get anything but I do put in 5 bags of shavings. Each horse has their own fan if it's hot. I have no way to give water in the trailer. We tried to fill the feeder part with water but it leaked down into the manger. I don't give hay either because I'm afraid they will choke but I do feed if they will be in the trailer during feeding time. I always tie with trailer ties. Unless it raining or cold I have my drop down down. If it's cold or raining I just open the sliders.
ETA, they always always always get fly masks. Doesn't matter if there in my trailer or someone else's. Even if they have mesh screens they will still get one.
Edited by TessBelle 2015-01-15 7:55 PM
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How do you haul your horses?