Miniitis
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So I've had my mini about 2 weeks now. For the first 4 days I kept her at a paddoch up at my work which has 75 acres of smaller sized paddochs. It's free to keep her there, it's only 4 minute drive away and there are 3 other full size horses on the property but she can't always see them if they move to higher ground.
I thought that I wanted her home, so we brought her back to our house which is on about 1/4 acre. Our backyard is devised in two areas. The back is dry sand, grass free and then we have made gates to the front half where we have lots of short thick lush lawn grass.
At the moment she is kept mainly in the dry area through the day, let out for a few hours on the grass and then put back in the dry area at night. She seems to be adjusting quite well now.
Everyday we have been taking her for walks for exercise and she can and does trott around her dry area.
The problem is that I find because she is always within site from my kitchen , I am forever watching her lol!
I mean checking to see if she's okay, if she's eating, or sleeping, or looks bored. It's quite tiresome.
I also feel that she actually might start running the risk of us treating her more like a dog.
I mean it's great having her at home, but I know she needs exercise and the only means of that at home is to walk her everyday, and we do that with our dogs.
Up at the paddochs I have access to a round yard for lunging and plenty of open space for trotting her around etc, but the only thing is that I think she might over eat up there. If I did put her up in the pasture, which is summer dry grass, would I need to fed her any extra at all?
What would you all do, keep her in the backyard with the routine I've been doing or put her back in the paddoch?
I thought that I wanted her home, so we brought her back to our house which is on about 1/4 acre. Our backyard is devised in two areas. The back is dry sand, grass free and then we have made gates to the front half where we have lots of short thick lush lawn grass.
At the moment she is kept mainly in the dry area through the day, let out for a few hours on the grass and then put back in the dry area at night. She seems to be adjusting quite well now.
Everyday we have been taking her for walks for exercise and she can and does trott around her dry area.
The problem is that I find because she is always within site from my kitchen , I am forever watching her lol!
I mean checking to see if she's okay, if she's eating, or sleeping, or looks bored. It's quite tiresome.
I also feel that she actually might start running the risk of us treating her more like a dog.
I mean it's great having her at home, but I know she needs exercise and the only means of that at home is to walk her everyday, and we do that with our dogs.
Up at the paddochs I have access to a round yard for lunging and plenty of open space for trotting her around etc, but the only thing is that I think she might over eat up there. If I did put her up in the pasture, which is summer dry grass, would I need to fed her any extra at all?
What would you all do, keep her in the backyard with the routine I've been doing or put her back in the paddoch?