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Re: [RC] straight loads with mangers, and not tied - Chris Paus

I have horses I tie and horses I don't tie. I have an
older GN, straight load. One horse is extremely
claustrophobic if I tie him. He gets quite fretful.
But he's also too big to put his head down by the
manger.

I have a couple of horses who WILL put their heads
down and I tie them.

chris
--- Merryben@xxxxxxx wrote:

People who tie say that the horse can break its neck
if its head is down.  
People who don't tie say they want their horse to be
able to maneuver in case of 
accident and that they want them to be able to lower
their heads.  
 
I had a friend of mine call me once when the front
of the trailer where it 
attaches to the hitch broke and the trailer sailed
over a chain link fence onto 
a frontage road.  By the time they got off the
freeway and to where the 
trailer was (upside down and crumpled) the mare was
gone.  Some kids were there and 
said there was a horse over behind the apartment
building on the lawn and 
there she was, eating happily.  She had a scrape on
the top of her head and on the 
top of her rump.  When I came to get her, she looked
at my little two horse 
slant load like you want me to do what?  Then she
just calmly walked in.  Her 
owner (contrary to state law) rode in the manger to
make sure she was all 
right.  Amazing.  But.............I don't know if
she was tied in or 
not..............mb



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"A good horse makes short miles," George Eliot

Chris and Star

BayRab Acres
http://pages.prodigy.net/paus

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Re: [RC] straight loads with mangers, and not tied, Merryben