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Location: Iowa | Wondering if other Mini owners run their minis with their big horses or if they keep them seperated. Recently purchased a mini and wondering if I will need to keep him alone all the time or if they acclimate pretty well to full size horses? Also wondering how much you feed your little guys? Thanks for the help! |
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Location: Kansas | Mine is technically a shetland (sh-it-land) but she stays out with the horses, I don't separate her. |
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 It's not my fault I'm perfect
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | My mini stays with my 5 big horses. She is pretty sassy and holds her own, she runs my 4 year old around and he is scared of her. She doesn't get any grain/feed only hay and usually in a slow feed net. Just monitor, intake and be careful :)
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 Cute Little Imp
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Location: N Texas | My sister's minis run with the big horses just fine. They learn pretty quick to stay out of the way at feeding time. |
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 Saint Stacey
| Our mini has no problem being with the big horses. We do keep him separated most of the time so he doesn't eat himself to death. You feed a mini very little. I feel like I'm starving ours to death but he looks great, feels great and has never foundered so I must be doing something right. |
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 I Sell Dreams
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Location: Freestone TX | I have a 30" mini and she stays out with the big horses on pasture. She's as round as a barrel. She gets no grain. When the big horses are fed, she gets a hand treat so she doesn't feel left out. The few times I've had her stalled, she got a measuring cup of pellets 2x a day and 1 flake of hay for all day. |
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Elite Veteran
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| I run our mini with the big horses and they pretty much ignore her, but she is an instigator and loves to get everyone running. Right now I have her in with some yearlings so she isn't on grass all day. I do pen her up separately when feeding because she is a beast and will run the yearlings off. |
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 Best of the Badlands
Location: You never know where I will show up...... | I have 2, they run with the big horses and think they are big horses! |
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Expert
Posts: 1586
Location: west of East Texas | Have you seen the honeybadger videos? "Honey badger don't care." That could be my mini. She's in the pasture with everybody and goes where she wants to go, when she wants to go there. I do have to keep her up every few days though to keep her off grass. And I may feed her a small handful and I may not, just depending on how she's walking. |
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Addicted to Baseball
Location: Where the stars at night are big and bright, TX | Depends on the horses and you don't know until you try I guess. I've known mini's killed by big horses. They are the perfect height for a fatal kick. We kept our separate but they were also show horses and we couldn't afford to have them injured or killed. |
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Veteran
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Location: NeverLand | I had a really small mini maybe 30" on a good day. She sayed out with the big guys. And did just fine. Half the time she would boss everyone around. |
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Location: LuluLand~along I64 Indiana | i kept my mini seperate all winter. last spring had her in the yard eating grass running loose like i had several other times. she went under the fence to the big horses, told them who was boss and now i turn her out with them when they go out. i treat her just like a big one minus giving much to eat.
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| I have a shetland that foundered 2 falls before I bought her. I turn her out with the big horses in late fall when the grass starts to brown and bring her back in when it starts to turn green in the spring. She's the boss... |
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