But it’s what you do when folks don’t acceed to your advice and tell you how right you are that this goes downhill.
Why are you so set on being right in every conversation here? You don’t have to answer this but you should realize do this to the point of harassment.
It is this behavior that is getting negative responses, not your actual position.
I was thinking this pre-post at the barn yesterday! The horse I ride lives out all the time. It’s a small hike from the barn to his field. It’s a little shorter these days because he and his pasture mates stay right up by the gate, but I was thinking how, come spring, I will have further to walk.
What exactly do I “need to be right” about? That turnout is beneficial? Yea you know what, I do really hope we’re all on the same page about that and I think most of us are so I’m not sure what the issue is. But thank you for your unsolicited feedback.
You’re totally welcome!
Wow. Ya step away from the forums and BOOM!: topics blow up!
On the topic of “pussy”: Actually, even in British English the original meaning is a sexual double entendre.
From Merriam-Webster: " perhaps of Low German or Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse pūss pocket, pouch, Low German pūse vulva, Old English pusa bag"
Read Robert Darnton’s “The Great Cat Massacre” for an interesting use (in France in the 18th century) of cat as a proxy for a woman’s sexuality.
(I’m a historian; can’t help myself).
The debate about the equivalent to calling someone a dick made me recall a funny memory. I once had a discussion with my mother who very rarely if ever I had heard swear.
She was telling me a story and dramatically lowered her voice then whispered something along the lines of “they used the K word”. I was completely puzzled. Being a grade A slinger of profanity I racked my brain for the K word. Then it dawned on me. I said “Mom…that word starts with a C” 
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Hahaha! Love 30 Rock! I think my dear Momma had a point in the end. It really should start with a K. Lol
You’d be surprised how often pellets/bbs are an incidental finding on radiographs.
In a twist I had not realized was ironic prior to this thread, I have been occasionally taking the ponies FROM their frozen field, and moving them TO the relatively smaller indoor arena so they can run around like idiots and roll for like half an hour…#insideoutturnout
That’s the issue right now. There’s 18" of snow on the ground, significantly more in drifts. You can turn them out all day long, and the footing isn’t suitable for the buck-fart-snort they’re craving. Put them in the arena for 30 minutes (if that isn’t enough for your horse to get his “stupids” out, something else is wrong), and they have the purchase to kick up their heels.
My horse isnt the running kicking kind, she normally is outside for 10 hours a day. She has now been on stall rest with minimal turn out and you can see the difference. She has become more irritable, restless, and just depressed. They may not be wild horses anymore but they are still an animal that needs down time to decompress.
Hey op, any updates on the new guy?
Just to let you know… you can choose to ignore specific users through your preferences. Just took advantage of this myself! 
I read about a study (years ago) that found stalled horses move five times as much if either the length or width of the stall was 20’ as compared to a standard 10’x12’ or 12’ x12’ stall.
I wonder what the difference is in something eight times the size of a standard stall like what the OP has.
That’s really interesting about stall size and movement.
@ScarlettTrinity I’d love to know more about your stall and how it’s set up with the rest of the barn. 24x48’ would be bigger than my entire 4 stall barn! Where I live winter is very cold and heating large areas is expensive so the biggest stall I’ve ever seen in person is a 12’x24’ foaling stall. Hearing about a stall that big, all I can think of is the Piber Lipizzan Stud’s beautiful broodmare barn where the mares and young foals come in together to be fed and cared for 
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How many stalls does the barn have? Does it have two rows of stalls with a breezeway in between or is it more like the European stables that have stalls arranged in an L or U facing a courtyard? You said the back half was open, is it almost like a covered turn out? Or can he just hang his head out like a dutch door if that makes sense?
What is it bedded with? It’s enough work for me to sift through one 12x12 stall. I can’t imagine doing a stall that size every day, let alone multiple!
Sorry for all the questions, I’d just really love to know more about the set up (and then I can daydream about building something like that for my horses 
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A friend has stalls that size for her horses. They are HUGE. She beds with hemp so she only has to pick pee spots once a month. Manure in the other days. (She has about a foot of bedding in the stalls so it’s the deep method). Once a month she drives in the tractor and does a complete cleaning. The barn doesn’t smell and the hemp absorbs the urine really well.
Her horses only get turned out 1/2 a day. (Either out day or night depending on temperatures). She did noticed increased stall walking with the extra space so she took down the bars between the stalls and made the walls about 3’6 high. The horses can scratch/touch fully over the wall. Feed buckets are in the middle of the stalls so the horses can’t annoy each other for food either. She has four stalls so her barn is about 200 feet long and about 40 feet wide. Across the stalls she has a small tack room, 12x12 heated wash stall and a grooming cross tie area with a back door that the farrier can pull right up to. It’s a brilliant design and the horses really love it. If I ever can dream big and afford it, I’d love her set up.
That’s so interesting! I guess I need to win the lotto 
That sounds lovely!
I want to hear more about this hemp bedding.
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