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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?
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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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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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