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We will be having Flash gelded here at our place shortly. When we had Mingus gelded, the vet had a gelding program and he spent the night there, so this will be a first here at the faux farm.
We're in Oregon, which means mud season runs right into fly season. Flash's "dry lot" is anything but. It is very muddy and I worry about the mud with his incision, but at least he has a run-in shelter.
We've considered running a temporary hot tape fence and limiting him to the run-in and a 10X75' stretch of his corral, putting down geo-textile and then 5-6 inches of gravel to cover the mud.
Or I suppose I could keep him in his barn/shelter (10x10) and just bring him out to exercise a few times each day, but he's always had free choice 24/7 and we'd have to put up half doors or a web stall gate (solid, not the open kind).
Another option would be to fence the lawn with hot tape and step-in stakes. He does well with and respects electric fencing, but the grass is still too lush and he has not built up any time on it. We could put a grazing muzzle on him, as unfair as that sounds on top of dejewelling him, LOL. We'd need to set up a temporary shelter to keep him out of the elements. Depending on how long he would need to be there, the lawn could develop muddy areas before long and end up just as muddy as his corral.
Or -- would it be better to wait for dry weather and deal with the flies?
I'm sure our vet will have an opinion on this, but I'd like to get some other thoughts first.
We're in Oregon, which means mud season runs right into fly season. Flash's "dry lot" is anything but. It is very muddy and I worry about the mud with his incision, but at least he has a run-in shelter.
We've considered running a temporary hot tape fence and limiting him to the run-in and a 10X75' stretch of his corral, putting down geo-textile and then 5-6 inches of gravel to cover the mud.
Or I suppose I could keep him in his barn/shelter (10x10) and just bring him out to exercise a few times each day, but he's always had free choice 24/7 and we'd have to put up half doors or a web stall gate (solid, not the open kind).
Another option would be to fence the lawn with hot tape and step-in stakes. He does well with and respects electric fencing, but the grass is still too lush and he has not built up any time on it. We could put a grazing muzzle on him, as unfair as that sounds on top of dejewelling him, LOL. We'd need to set up a temporary shelter to keep him out of the elements. Depending on how long he would need to be there, the lawn could develop muddy areas before long and end up just as muddy as his corral.
Or -- would it be better to wait for dry weather and deal with the flies?
I'm sure our vet will have an opinion on this, but I'd like to get some other thoughts first.
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