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Guidelines To Use If You Are Looking At Horse Boarding Stables

Posted on Wednesday, February 01, 2012 by Greg in Animals
Tags: boarding stables, horse, horse boarding facilities, horse boarding stables, Stable

Regrettably not many of us are fortunate enough to have our own property where we are able to maintain our own horse or perhaps pony. Within these types of scenarios, our only other choice in the event that we want to keep a horse, is actually to use horse boarding stables.

At the moment, I’m needing to use horse boarding facilities for my pony, however we have had our own property previously, therefore I’ve been on each side of the fence – whenever we had our own property we supplied horse boarding for people, however I’ve furthermore had to utilize horse boarding stables on several different occasions.

So just what must you look for whenever you have to board your own horse?

1. Very Good fences – the very last thing you want is your own horse hurting itself in bad quality fencing, specifically barbed wire. Check that the fences & gates are undamaged with simply no sharp sides. Ideally, the fencing should all be electric as well as post and rail.

2. Secure stables & shedding – these need to be examined the same as the fencing. Make certain there aren’t virtually any holes in stable walls, simply no sharp bits of metal poking out or other things a horse might injure itself on. In the event that horses may locate something to hurt themselves on, they are going to!

3. Weed free pastures – some weeds in virtually any horse pasture is inescapable, however stay away from places where the paddocks are just brimming with weeds (particularly toxic weeds) together with simply no grass at all. A number of horse boarding facilities don’t offer paddocking (only yards or perhaps stables) therefore in the event that this is the case then you definitely don’t need to worry about this.

4. Somewhere to ride – stop and think, where might you ride your own horse? You definitely don’t want to try and ride your horse inside a 10 acre paddock together with 10 other horses running totally free surrounding you…that’s a formula for devastation! At the minimum you need a paddock which doesn’t have horses inside it to ride in, or even quick access to peaceful roads however the very best thing is really a proper riding arena.

5. Stables or perhaps somewhere to place your own horse in the event that they’re sick – in case your horse is going to be inside a paddock on a regular basis, you nonetheless need to be in a position to place it somewhere alone in the event that it becomes sick as well as hurts itself. Stables are ideal for this, however a very small yard would do too.

6. A knowledgeable, horsey person living on the property – horses may turn out to be sick or even get injured anytime of the day or even night and in the event that you live 20 minutes away, you can’t be there all the time to help keep an eye on them. When you get there the following morning to feed, it may be too late! Somebody, who may call you in the event that there’s a problem, needs to live on the property.

7. Shelter in the yards or even paddocks – a fantastic paddock shelter or perhaps lots of trees is crucial.

So if you’re able to come across a place which ticks each one of the boxes, then consider your self very fortunate! Then again, you might discover that you don’t need each thing mentioned above in your horse boarding facilities or possibly are content to forgo several of those features – everything depends on your individual needs!