Oh yes, totally a PITA, for sure. Cute though. ROTFLMAO!!!
Yes, I have owned goats and while they did definitely provide companionship and are cheap to maintain - I would definitely get another horse before I ever own another goat. Especially with my current set up (pipe fencing) there is 0% chance they would not escape and I live close enough to a highway for that to be an issue.
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Canât win is true!
I boarded for a while with another woman who also had a mare. That mare got sooooo attached to Feronia, who basically didnât want to be friends. (She is really weird about other horses. Wants them around, but doesnât want them close to her, or especially close to her hay. But is very protective of youngsters; she was their source of safety in the herd I bought her from.) Feronia was ok with babysitting this mare, around the barn and on the local trails.
So⊠one day we packed up the mares and went to a dressage schooling show together. Which mare was the one that had a meltdown, pulled back while tied to the trailer, and broke her halter? Not the other mare, who didnât have a care in the world at that show. Luckily, we were parked in a pasture, so Feronia didnât go galloping off to find the other mare. There was too much grass to eat, instead!
Feronia, who basically has silent heats, could also be put into peeing, squatting, ridiculous heat by being trailered with certain geldings. Note before I bought her, she had been trailered to shows and clinics with her intact sire, and this never happened.
This is why I have 7 horses 
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It is a slippery slope that I am afraid to go down -Especially because I have 30 fenced in acresâŠit could get out of hand real quick .
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In all honesty - I find that 4-5 is a good number. Iâve had everything from 2-5, and at 4 -5 you can take 2 or even 3 out to a show or trail ride and still have 2 at home to keep each other company. Plus if you ever need to rotate pastures or split them up for whatever reason, everyone has a buddy.
Yeah I could totally see that. If it wasnât for insurance concerns I would consider looking for a boarder or two, but with the going rate for board around here I doubt I could even cover increased insurances costs. I saw an ad recently for pasture boarding for $250/a month with an indoor, outdoor, etc.
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Man that is frustrating - especially after conversation on another thread about not paying workers appropriately and not charging appropriately for board based on expenses. 
Well as an update to this: I ended up having to take my TB to the vet two days in a row, the first day was a ~4 hour trip and the second was ~6 hours. My husband stayed home to watch the mustang both days.
The first day I left him in locked in his catch pen area with his favorite hay and a few hay nets (attached to the main pasture, where he goes for meals every day and where he lived when I first brought him home). Apparently he called out periodically but other than that he didnât get overly worked up. The second day I was in a rush so I left him with access to the rest of the pasture. Apparently he was pacing and calling out, my husband went out and put him in his catch pen and he immediately settled down and didnât call out a single time after that.
So overall it was very successful and it didnât seem to be an overly stressful experience for him, Iâll just make sure to leave him in his catch pen next time. I think itâs his little âsafetyâ area where he feels most secure.
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Iâm glad everything worked out and there wasnât much/any drama involved! Is your TB okay?
@Alterwho Yes, he had a scheduled lameness visit on Tuesday for hoof X-rays, and then he decided to puncture his chest on Sunday 
. So he had a short âwarm upâ trip to the local vet to get that looked at before his longer trip for the lameness exam. Luckily the cut/puncture missed anything major and is healing up very well and good news from the lameness vet as well. He handled his solo travel well, although he seemed very relived when I let him out in the big pasture this morning vs. going towards the trailer 
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