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Yes, it's good for them to be able to be stalled without fussing when needed.  We have 7 horses and only two stalls...the stalls are only used for feeding one horse in the evening, then he is turned right back out.  And of course if a horse needs to be stalled for some injury (only had that happen once in 4 years, knock on wood), or if a friend's horse spends the night and they don't want them turned out with ours.  All of ours will at least tolerate being stalled...some like it less than others, but they all know that it won't kill them to be locked up for a few days.  We did stall our old guy (31) during rainy cold winter nights, but other than that, all are out in the weather 24/7, with a big run-in shed and plenty of trees for shelter.

 

Dawn Carrie, Texas

 

On 10/10/07, Tx Trigger <txtrigger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My horse did an ugly cut on his elbow about 2" long and we tried to treat without stitching, then a few days later, he caught the flap of skin, and ripped it open even more, to about a 4" V shaped wound. Took him to vet for that, and they stitched, cutting away the dead yucky edges of the first section he had done. Installed a small drain tube, and told me to keep him in a stall for a week to 10 days, he was not to lay down. So I set up a high line in the stall above him, and tied him, so he could walk, turn, but not lay down. Worked great. It healed well, never broke open because I did everything the vet instructed, and now you can only find the scar when he has a short summer coat.

 

This is the reason we will teach ours to stay on a stall alone once and awhile, while the others are in pasture. Never know when they might need to be on a medical leave from the pasture. AND, the reason all our will tie for days.

Jonni