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Post by Michelle Clarke on Jul 20, 2011 16:30:35 GMT -5
List your open spots, trailer pooling or needed rides...
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Post by davidapril1996 on Jul 20, 2011 16:33:11 GMT -5
Thanks for starting this post:) I just posted to see if anyone will have room to haul back to Harford County, Maryland. We are driving out but do not have a trailer:( Looking to adopt a weanling-2yr old. Can follow back home to help along the way if wanted:)
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Post by MustangsInNC on Jul 20, 2011 23:10:46 GMT -5
I am taking a trailer, and hope to haul back to the east coast. So far I have a few potential horses to haul back, but of course nothing is for sure until the adoption. My driving buddy is from VA, about 45 mins from the Maryland line. My planned trip is: -leave NC to drive to VA and pick up Tasha and the trailer -go thru CO an drop hubby off at his friends place and drop off a TWH gelding that I'm taking out west for his owner -stay in OR a few days for the adoption and to take a ride on the Steens HMA with Andi and JoAnna -drive back thru CO to pick up hubby -drive back to NC or VA... haven't figured out which one first. I can haul back 3 horses besides my own, so I guess it depends on who actually adopts! This is a tentative map of my route: mapq.st/roR1wA |
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Post by toni on Jul 21, 2011 10:24:21 GMT -5
I will be happy to take advantage on the way back to CO. Then I can make arrangements to get my pending adoptee to El Paso Tx. Just planning on adopting 1 Young. Let me know if you have room. Thanks
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Post by toni on Jul 21, 2011 10:30:42 GMT -5
I can follow and also help. What ever it takes
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Post by hhf40 on Jul 21, 2011 10:56:24 GMT -5
If you plan to make that trip with a trailer from North Carolina, and bring back several horses, I assume you have at least a 24' stock trailer. You might check with the BLM and see if they require you to off load for a day or so somewhere between Oregon and NC to allow the horses to rest. I have done it at the BLM facility at Elm Creek. I have hauled just a few babies from out West before without off loading them, and they did fine. But they had alot of room in the trailer, and they rested whenever I stopped to sleep. One thing I did learn was to take just some good grass hay for them. They have no idea what feed is, and they would not even look at my good hay. They only wanted my grass hay. I usually lock my trailer on such trips to insure that no one lets them out when I sleep, and just put water in with them @ twice/day and they do fine.
Bill
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Post by Michelle Clarke on Jul 21, 2011 11:36:55 GMT -5
There are trailer requirements - you are right Bill. Less strict on younger ones, but still needs to be a stock trailer with door/partitions that go high up. We hauled with a 16' stock with a full partition in the middle; brought back two mares - one in each. We could have easily hauled 2 in the front and one in the back or two small ones in the back. We set up hanging buckets for water that were easy to get water too without opening doors; plus feed buckets. I do not recommend thinking that you can open doors to get feed and water in when you are traveling.
Both mares ate well (we had coastal and alfalfa; they ate both with no problem). We also fed them our oat/barley mix which they cleaned up! We loaded up with gallon bottles of water that were easy to pour into the buckets from the outside. They did better with buying distilled/bottled water at the gas stations when we stopped instead of filling with hotel water - which changed whenever we stopped. I also filled empty bottles at the BLM facility with water they were familiar with so we could use that if needed on the trip. They drank ALOT coming from colder weather to the heat down here. Every gas stop we were giving them a couple gallons each.
Personally, I believe they do better staying on the trailer where they are comfortable and feel safe. We've always done that, even with our show horses. They are with their buddies in a familiar place and will relax and sleep some - which they won't in a strange barn/pens.
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Post by hhf40 on Jul 21, 2011 12:23:00 GMT -5
Michelle,
I completely agree with everything you said. Especially about not opening any doors until you get home. I also think if the horses seem comfortable and satisfied I ( and mine always have ) you are better to not unload them to rest. They do better in the trailer as long as they have alot of room and seem satisfied.
Bill
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Post by MustangsInNC on Jul 21, 2011 22:24:44 GMT -5
Hopefully two I am bringing back are gentle, one orphan foal that Andi is gentling that a friend of mine is trying to adopt, and one ranch broke Kiger gelding that another friend wants hauled back. So that only leaves my wild one, and possibly one other wild one. I figure the wild ones can go in the front, the tame ones in the back. That way when I do stop the gentle ones can offload to rest, and the wild ones can have the whole trailer when I open the partition. I have hauled long distances from adoptions before, but not ever this long. This is my first cross country trip. And I do have a stock trailer that meets BLM requirements. I was planning on bringing buckets and a few bales of good grass hay. Thanks for the advice everyone! I can't wait!
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Post by MustangsInNC on Jul 21, 2011 22:27:09 GMT -5
Toni, I am stopping in Boulder, probably for a full day. But do not have a safe place to offload the wild ones to change trailers. Any ideas there?
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Post by toni on Jul 24, 2011 6:48:09 GMT -5
I was looking in to a horse farm that we can stop at, off load the gentle ones & mine. then I can make arrangements to transport Him/her down to Texas. I'll be happy to pay for the over night costs. LMK if this is possible & I'll make definite plans.
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Post by MustangsInNC on Jul 25, 2011 1:03:01 GMT -5
Is the farm in Boulder?
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Post by toni on Jul 25, 2011 10:50:40 GMT -5
Yes or denver which ever, I've start making calls.
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Post by MustangsInNC on Jul 26, 2011 22:18:43 GMT -5
Here's my updated driving plan. If I can offload in CO, then again in MO, and again in VA, that will be plenty of stops to rest the horses. I'm figuring since half of them will be tame, it should be no problem. And I was wrong, it isn't Boulder that I'm stopping in, it's Colorado Springs. This map is updated to show this mapq.st/qAmAbUI figure I will do one leg each day, so 4 days traveling there and 4 days back. So I will hopefully have 2 tame horses in the front, then 3 wild ones in the back. I will offload the wild ones in CO and drop off one for Toni, then reload the two wild ones in the front and put the tame ones in the back. Then in MO unload the tame ones into a round pen at Angela's house, let the wild ones rest in the open trailer. Then reload, head to VA and unload Jacqui's tame filly and one wild one that goes to MD. Then mine and Jill's come back to NC. Now I have to figure out mileage and what this is going to cost, so then I can figure out what to charge to haul. |
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Post by toni on Jul 27, 2011 11:53:39 GMT -5
Colorado springs is better for me. I have family there. WOOOO HOOOOO I'm excited. Thanks so much. Toni
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