Bombproof ex-hunt horse loses sanity when hearing a hound whilst loose in turnout.

[fivehorses]

Your farm is beautiful, the layout is wonderful. Your horses are well cared for, and they are lucky.

I had dreams last night about how beautifully laid out your farm is. I am in the planning stage of building a farm so when I see one I like the layout, its great and gets my mind working.

Do you like the shed row, any negatives with that?

As far as your op, I can understand your desire to protect M, and I also found it interesting to read about ‘hunting’ not something we have up here where I live nearby. There is a lot of language and things I did not know.
We do have hunter paces, and I wondered if that might be a good compromise.

I think it must be great to have a horse who so loves his old job.
When I was younger, I rode a grand prix horse who was semi retired. The barn was sponsoring a show, and the poor guy went nuts in his stall, so wanting to go out and do his thing. Alas, his days were over, but I saw how it got him going, similar to your M with the hound.

Any animal would be in heaven at your place, so I say go for an older retired hound.
Again, beautiful place and horses.

[Calamber]

Evans, I used to have an old steeplechase horse just like yours! He loved to jump big and gallop but I would/could not do that because I was bringing him back from neglect in his mid 20s. In any case, I had a field at the time that was nice and grassy with a 3 board split rail fence, it divided off the field if I closed it off so…I would close the gate and tell him we are going racing, chase him down the field in play and he would SAIL over the post, a good 4 ft if it was an inch, he would turn around and jump back into the field with me, so happy. Maybe you can do that for your old guy. He so loved it and was so happy, swayback and slight of weight and all. And I loved seeing the old guy smile! Thanks for memory.

To the op, while hounds do “speak” when they open on the line, the others also “harken to” the originator of the line who is a gem in anyone’s hunting book. The different voices also are identified as a “chop” for a short consistent speaking to the line, a “bawl” for a long drawn out note, and some variations of the two. Some hounds even quaver when they speak. This is why those who love hunting call it music. You hear this most in beagles because they tend to run with their heads down while sorting out the line, if they can get an air scent they do usually let out the long running, continuous notes, silent runners are not kept, although I have heard that the coonhunters like a dog to run silent to sneak up on the coon and let loose when it is treed. It is beautiful to hear. You need to go to the opening of a hunt on foot, somewhere where the experienced foot or car followers go, also see if they have bassett or beagle trials somewhere, they are slightly easier to follow on foot especially if they are brace (couple) trials, and are a real treat to hear. You may even have packs of the more exotic Bassets that I would love to see work like PVBG, or what I like to call the “Peanut Butter and Jelly Dogs”.

[Whisper]

Perhaps you can take him hilltopping or on hound exercise, so that he can get out with the hounds/other horses without jumping? They just trot and canter at the back of the field.

[Lieslot]

@fivehorses

Your farm is beautiful, the layout is wonderful. Your horses are well cared for, and they are lucky.

I had dreams last night about how beautifully laid out your farm is. I am in the planning stage of building a farm so when I see one I like the layout, its great and gets my mind working.

Do you like the shed row, any negatives with that?

Thank you :), yes totally love the place. Horses love the place too, but they seem to think they never get enough treats, totally deprived :lol:.

No negatives to the shedrow. One of the main reasons for the shedrow was the COPD & ventilation possible with a shedrow. It’s great for any horse with respiratory issues.
You do need a good size overhang 10 to 12ft to work and position the stall door entrances facing south or south east (well that’s what we did due to prevailing NW winds in winter).
Having enclosed the washstall, groom area was a brilliant idea, totally sheltered from winds.
To increase ventilation even more in summer, I have dutch doors back & front of stalls, so I can have a good breeze in the stalls on those hot summer days.

The other positive is price. It’s soooooooooooo much cheaper then having a similar set-up built on site. I requested a quote for the exact same layout by a barnbuilder and it was twice as expensive for the exact same thing.
The stalls are 14x12, and the entire barn was delivered in 2 pieces on a tractor trailer and the overhang build on site.

You can pm me for prices or other questions.

[Lieslot]

Calamber, uh wow, now you are baffling me, didn’t realize there’s so much vocabulary to hounds :). Thank you for enlightening me, most interesting!

[spaceagevalkyrie]

[QUOTE=Lieslot;4189458]
Thank you :), yes totally love the place. Horses love the place too, but they seem to think they never get enough treats, totally deprived :lol:.

No negatives to the shedrow. One of the main reasons for the shedrow was the COPD & ventilation possible with a shedrow. It’s great for any horse with respiratory issues.
You do need a good size overhang 10 to 12ft to work and position the stall door entrances facing south or south east (well that’s what we did due to prevailing NW winds in winter).
Having enclosed the washstall, groom area was a brilliant idea, totally sheltered from winds.
To increase ventilation even more in summer, I have dutch doors back & front of stalls, so I can have a good breeze in the stalls on those hot summer days.

The other positive is price. It’s soooooooooooo much cheaper then having a similar set-up built on site. I requested a quote for the exact same layout by a barnbuilder and it was twice as expensive for the exact same thing.
The stalls are 14x12, and the entire barn was delivered in 2 pieces on a tractor trailer and the overhang build on site.

You can pm me for prices or other questions. :)[/QUOTE]

So you had to order it? From where, if you don’t mind my asking?