Re: How many miles (was 5 year olds)

["Robert Morris" <bobmorris@rmci.net>]

I figure about five to six miles a day They greet the sun in the morning on
top of the hill and graze most of the day on the hillsides. Water is half
way down the hill so I know they go down there atleast once a day. Then we
feed at night down by our barn at night and then put out hay some place
different each night.

 Grazing during the day is take a bite and a few steps then another bite and
a few more steps. Oh, I forgot, if the horses in the adjacent pasture show
up they all gather at the Gossip Fence for a while to swap stories.

Bob Morris
Morris Endurance Enterprises
Boise, ID
-----Original Message-----
From: K S Swigart <katswig@deltanet.com>
To: Endurance List <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Thursday, January 28, 1999 4:44 PM
Subject: How many miles (was 5 year olds)


>
>Out of curiosity,
>
>Those of you who keep your horses out to pasture, how many miles do you
>think your horses cover in a day just wandering around and grazing??
>
>I figure mine cover about 20 miles (average ~ .85 mph)...and since they
>start doing this at the age of 5 days, I find it hard to think of 25 miles
>as being a long way to take a 5 year old.
>
>1 mph is not the same 5 mph, and riderless is not the same as under
>saddle, but my horses start their LSD looong before they get under saddle.
>
>kat
>Orange County, Calif.
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>