Congratulations Adele! It looked like Eve went beautifully albeit no small feat! We are moving with our horses to Colorado in two weeks to also have them on our own property. I am so glad I watched this so many many helpful hints ❤🎉
Congratulations!! I can’t imagine the thrill and relief of having them all in your backyard now. Thank you for sharing the journey with us! Looking forward to part 2 (:
This is awesome! We are moving my horses to my house in 2 weeks. It’s been a long time coming but we finally have the property livable for them and will build out more after they are here. I moved 2 hours from where I boarded my horse and I’ve had to make the trek back and forth for 2 years. So happy to have him in my back yard soon. I am also using Quietex for the trailer ride and my TB will be on ulcer prevention for a week prior and 3 weeks after. I’m anxious but excited. Congrats! Can’t wait to see more.
@@TheWillingEquine thank you! I will definitely refer to some of your tips/tricks. I’ve moved him once before from a boarder barn to another boarder barn but never to my own place, that wasn’t already set up for horses so we will learn along the way. I’ve been watching your 2nd part today. I will definitely keep an eye out for sleepiness, etc. I am taking some days off work to help them settle in and get myself used to the new routine.
I was trying to find a list but it was taking too long. Basically all of the toxic weeds we have here, and anything very sharp or spiky (we have a lot of those).
Congratulations!! Love how prepared you are! I don’t have land or my own horses yet but i am wanting to have everything figured out before hand. Do you have a track system ( paddock paradise)? If not what is your opinion on them or what is your layout/the best? Thank you!!
I don’t but I have many clients who do. They are an excellent option when designed well. Especially if you live in an area with lots of grass and if you have metabolic horses.
This was really interesting to watch from start to finish! Congratulations on the move! My dad owns land in central Texas with pretty much the same terrain, and he had a small paddock and shelter built there for weekend trips. The paddock is almost all rock chunks like in your video at 28:18, and I've always worried my horse would struggle with that since he's used to soft southeast Texas ground. Is that a concern for your horses? I've wondered if mine would be okay there without boots.
Yes it’s a concern since our last pastures had minimal rocks. I plan to talk about this more in part two, but we have boots for each of the horses and have been using Hoof Armor to help with the transition. They wear their boots part time to reduce the rate of wear and help them adjust more gradually. But they have also been barefoot a very long time/their whole lives and most have good feet with good sole depth. If they didn’t have good hooves we’d have to look probably at composite shoes or 24/7 boots etc. My trimmer/farrier also purposely trimmed them in a way to prep for the rocks too.
Wow so interesting seeing the different logistics with heat to contend with etc - very different to our climate in NZ. We moved house 2 and a half years ago and it's definitely a big event to get everything sorted. Love your field shelters and tack/feed room ❤. How much hay do you go through? I imagine it's quite a bit! Really loved the insight into horse life in a different country ❤
@@elliejaneh thanks for watching! It is very interesting to see how things are done in different parts of the world. :) As far as hay. They average about 20+ lbs of forage per day per horse. So with 8 horses that’s 160lbs a day of hay minimum. Our round bales are quite large and heavy, it takes a group of four horses about 2 to 3 weeks to go through one round bale.
I bought it from harbor freight. It wasn’t very much. We bought additional larger wheels from Amazon to lift it off the ground a bit more to avoid the rocks. This way we had it for scanning the rest of our property as we continue to build
