re: RC: long term conditioning.

["Becky Huffman" <TOS@htcomp.net>]

>Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 12:34:55 -0700
>From: "Dot Wiggins" <dotwgns@ruralnetwork.net>
>If foals are born in the open and can move around immediately after birth,
>rather than in a stall or small pen, they have already started that
>conditioning.
<snip>
>I'd like to hear some pros and cons on this,  as I am aware that the
>opportunity to bring up horses this way is disappearing.   What  are any of
>you doing to compensate?

We are raising our babies on the roughest pasture we could find within an
hours drive of the Metroplex. Not really large, only about 50 acres, and
nothing real dramatic, but not a flat inch on it.  Lots of rock, cedar and
prickly pear, not too much pretty green stuff, they have to travel for their
grass and water.  We haven't been here long enough to be riding any that
have grown up here, but I'll be letting you know in a few years how it is
going.

the downside would be the chance of injury.

Becky Huffman
Huffman's Arabians ~ The Original Series
http://www.htcomp.net/Huffman/




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