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If you're coming from Canada; it's not clear, the border vets have limited daytime hours.

 

I brought a horse from Canada to Louisiana in four days. She was in the trailer for 12-14 hours straight, then tied to the truck while I slept on the ground next to her or in the pickup bed. She ate in the trailer and ate and drank at night. An excellent place to stay overnight is freeway rest stops. Interstate freeway rest stops are listed on the internet; you can google them. She didn't drink much the first day but was fine thereafter. She seemed happy throughout, loaded up readily every morning. Your rest period after arrival seems like enough to me.

 

Regards,

Mike Sherrell
Grizzly Analytical
707 887 2919; fax 707 887 9834
www.grizzlyanalytical.com

-----Original Message-----
From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Chrystal Woodhouse
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 8:31 AM
To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [RC] Travelling long distances with a horse

HI :-) I am planning on taking my mare to Virginia in April, it will be a 500 mile trip ( according to map quest) , so I am assuming that as long as there are not major problems it will take about 15 hours with stops etc....  That's maybe 12 hours driving and 3 hours of rest stops , is that enough for my mare? I am planning on leaving around midnight Wed night so hopefully getting to the ride site late afternoon,(she will then have Thursday night, all day Friday and Fri night before the ride to rest ) I figure by leaving at midnight I can hit the border crossing when there is no traffic  and also as I have an older truck it does give us a day to deal with any breakdowns! ( Happy thoughts,no breakdowns. :-)

I was wondering however if it would be better to break the trip up into two days, that would not be preferable however if anyone has had a lot of experience hauling horses a long way I would appreciate their thoughts. The most I have trailered my mare was 7 hours so I am in the dark!

Also I was looking up bed n bale type places and can't find anything for New York state, are they called something different in the U.S? Even if we don't plan on staying  overnight at one I would like to know where some are in case we get stuck.
Thanks for any and all advice!:-)
Chrystal :)