Mounted search and rescue

[Deby Brown <spotted_saddle_horse2003@yahoo.com>]

I agree with you Quincydew.  If it's a short trip, a
couple of hours or so, then I dont hay them.  If it's
longer 4-7 hours, then I give them a little hay to
keep them occupied.  However, when I travelled to
Kentucky, my horse hardly ate any of the hay.  My
horses are paddocked, we do not have pasture.  So they
are used to not always having something to eat all day
long as they desire. I think there is definitely an
advantage to that because they learn to be quiet and
wait.


--- QUINCYDEW@aol.com wrote:

>  
> I never feed hay in the trailer. I am too concerned
> about the amount of  
> dust, and when they are riding in a two horse
> straight load they can't lower  
> their noses sufficiently to clear their sinuses. If
> they are in a slant, I  
> wouldn't want to hang a hay bag and have them get
> either a foot or halter caught  in 
> it. I find that they aren't going to starve before
> you get there, and chances 
>  are that you will have some time waiting once you
> get there before you get  
> deployed on a search.
> Ann Taylor
> Clark County Mounted Search and Rescue
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