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Risks and safety for horses

A big reason people don't keep horses in a herd is because they are scared of their horse being injured by other horses. The reason freedom is denied to some horses for a part of a 24 h day is to keep them "safe".People remove/fence off trees shrubs or even dam's to "reduce risk of injury" from branches, sticks and...mud? One of the main reasons some people are hesitant to give track life a go is the extra fences and again increased risk of getting hurt by those.To keep horses safe and reduce risks we keep them in as flat as possible and small as possible, square as possible paddocks or worse, stables.

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Tracks don't have to be perfect

❌Our horses water Buffet is closed ❌ You're probably thinking "what the hell do I care 😅😅"But my point of this post is that it's ok not to be perfect ! A track doesn't have to be perfect all of the time in every aspect. I have made it my mission to show everyone that tracks don't have to be perfect looking with perfect fences and perfect surfaces as well as endless always available enrichment and you have to work all day every day to provide this. Just because you implemented something doesn't mean it has to always stay that way. I usually have a water buffet available to our horses here with ACV, Salt and Tea's like peppermint or camomile ect. But that doesn't mean they always NEED it, it's an amazing feature on our track and I love to provide this to them. But right now it's not available to them (besides salt) for various reasons. I'm near 40 weeks pregnant and the hay prices have gone up a lot. At this point in my pregnancy it's simply to hard to bend down to clean and fill the buckets every day /second day. And we'll wait and see what hay prices are doing so I didn't have to up my agistment fee by much. Another example would be rain events. If that means the track gets all muddied up and seems unusable, then just feed hay on your dry standing areas and if they don't move as much during that time so be it! It's not perfect, but they do move so much during the rest of the year so it's worth it. And that's with everything really if your circumstances change so can the track change with you. And you can find ways to still have the track going but a bit modified and maybe Imperfect for a short period of time. The track system is most likely still more beneficial to your horses than keeping them in a stable, small dry lot or short grassed small paddock on their own. I just want to take away that overwhelm that people feel a lot when they see tracks and would like to set one up themselves. That's why I'm already providing talks and tours even though my track isn't even finished or perfect looking in any way yet and to be honest it probably never will feel finished or perfect there is always something more you can improve and provide that's how it should be! If we ever think we know it all and got it all figured out without improvement I think we've lost.

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