justbloo wrote:
Few years ago I moved our two horses to a boarding facility that was quite large. Many paddocks, small pastures. Neat lil set up, you could rent the perfect size pasture/paddock for your situation. Couple of people had 4, 5, 6 horses in the almost appropriate sized section

Two people over the course of the 20 months we were there ended up with extensive face injuries, one lady in ICU for days. They would go out to grain their horses in rubber tubs in the small pastures, horses gathering around them as they did it. Fights ensued at times, and these ladies would get pretty roughed up from the horses going after the grain. One lady broke almost every bone in her face when she reached down to pull a tub over, and one horse spun around and fired off with both hind feet.

Needless to say, it became a rule in my paddock that feed buckets were to be hung on the fence, or the grain put in the feed-trough of the hay feeders.








Carrying feed to loose horses is dangerous I don't care how gentle they are. Many times they will get to fighting among themselves & run horses over you or kick at another & get you. I have to do it in the winter but you can bet your ass I'm watching what I'm doing, throw out the feed & get the hell out of there. Just something to avoid if ya can...


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