Re: RC: Re: FW: Portable Corrals and Arabian Stallion

["Nancy Mitts" <mitts_n@hotmail.com>]

Louise,
Yeah, we recommend the hotwire around the top AND bottom. Keeps them from 
pushing out to graze. Or in our case Smarty sticking her head under into 
Racer's pen to tease him!
Nancy Mitts


>From: "Louise Burton" <firedancefarms@prodigy.net>
>To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
>Subject: RC:  Re: FW: Portable Corrals and Arabian Stallion
>Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 16:46:49 -0500
>
>As someone who has competed several stallions in the last 12 years, I have
>to agree.  DOUBLE TIE.  Once on a multiday we put electric wire around 
>their
>part of the trailer...to keep other horses away.  You have to consider, not
>just your horse getting loose, but someone elses.  Nancy & Monte Mitts make
>a pretty sturdy corral system, if I was to go that direction, but be sure 
>to
>hot wire the top (and bottom?).
>
>BTW, tying to a trailer did not work on a multiday..the horse does not get
>to move around enough after so many days!  Luckily my friend had one of the
>Mitt's corrals and I turned him loose in it on my day off.  He rolled 13
>times in 5 minutes!
>
>Louise Burton
>Firedance Farms Endurance Arabians
>Oklahoma
>http://pages.prodigy.net/firedancefarms
>
>
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