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| mtcanchazer - 2015-07-26 11:10 PM
Loved reading this thread as I'm selling my gelding and I don't want my mare to be lonely, so was thinking about a mini. My mare HATES sheep (she's terrified of them) so I'm ruling out goats, and while mini donkeys are cute, I think minis are cuter.
One question I have...water tank situation? Since they are so little? And can they get in a trailer okay without a ramp?
Yes. Caesar just gracefully jumps into the trailer.He has no problem loading and unloading without a ramp. He has no trouble getting water out of the tank as long as it's over half full. When in doubt we just put a bucket out. They don't eat or drink much. |
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| I inherited a mini that is a PITA
Because of this and her unwillingness to be caught she has the run of the place. No pen, no lot she just cruises around. If I put her in a pen she runs from you and ends up making the big horses run and that makes the people very angry.
That being said she is very resilient, she gets no grain just what she can snag from a feeder that gets to close to a fence or if some get's spilled during feed time. Winter time get's hay and spring/summer/fall just forages.
She also has her own water but prefers to stick her head thru the fence/panel/gate etc. to drink from others.
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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | Maybe I should get a mini for my gelding...horses have a tendency to beat him up. I do know you definitely want to mini-proof your fence though! My cousins had a little guy that would regularly slither under the electric fence and roam their yard. We also have a mini in the mare pasture at my barn now. I pulled in the other night and it (I assume) had squeezed between the automatic waterer and the fence. |
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Location: Montana | Thanks for the ideas! Is a mini the best choice for a pasture mate for my mare? I know sheep won't cut it, another horse eats too much, same with cows. Not sure about a goat, but I think my mare will have the same reaction as with a sheep. |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | My gelding likes his goat buddy. Although the first time he heard the goat bawl at him for trying to eat the goats feed He freaked out a bit. But he got used to it. And he never tried to eat the goats feed again.
Goats are fun:) LOL in a keep them out of mischief every second of everyday kind of way LOL
My gelding likes to get into things as well tho. They're partners in crime.
Goats are easy to haul and you can clip a collar on them and tie them to the bumper of your trailer if you need to take them with you. They're easy keepers. I don't haul mine, but my friend hauls her goat with her horse and has never had a problem. |
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 My Heart Be Happy
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Location: Arkansas | epoh - 2015-01-06 9:26 PM
Thank you all for the imput. Have you ever had problems with them crawling under fences?
Son's gf has a mini that crawled thru a pipe to get from his pasture to her gelding's pasture. I would have given a lot to have seen that!! |
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Too busy outside!
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| Getting a mini for my guy was the best thing I ever did! This is a pic of their first trip together- I don't tie Zeus anymore, he likes to ride underneath Chappy and Chappy is so careful not to step on him! :)
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