I got a lot of flack on the BB about putting Rory in a standing stall instead of a box stall after people saw the photo. This post was my response:
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| Rory squashed himself up at the front of the stall trying to turn around. |
Good questions.
Everything we do with our horses is a risk. Everyone has experiences with various things that went wrong. Stuff happens. Each of us has to weigh the risks and decide which ones outweigh the others. My last weanling got into serious trouble in a box stall while not wearing a halter. Ten years later I'm still dealing with it, but I still put him in box stalls. Stuff happens.
Right now Rory's tiny (relatively speaking) and there's lots of room for him to move around and lie down the standing stall. I don't feel that spending a few months over the winter in a standing stall at night is going to negatively affect his development for a number of reasons.
My initial horse keeping experiences were with standing stalls - I don't have the same negative feelings about them that many people do. That's one of the beauty things about horses - there are many ways of doing any given thing. You all do things with your horses that I wouldn't, and I do things you wouldn't. That's just horses. If Rory were a different horse I might not trust him in a standing stall, but he is who he is.
As far as the halter goes, that is a breakaway halter.
Everything we do with our horses is a risk. Everyone has experiences with various things that went wrong. Stuff happens. Each of us has to weigh the risks and decide which ones outweigh the others. My last weanling got into serious trouble in a box stall while not wearing a halter. Ten years later I'm still dealing with it, but I still put him in box stalls. Stuff happens.
Right now Rory's tiny (relatively speaking) and there's lots of room for him to move around and lie down the standing stall. I don't feel that spending a few months over the winter in a standing stall at night is going to negatively affect his development for a number of reasons.
My initial horse keeping experiences were with standing stalls - I don't have the same negative feelings about them that many people do. That's one of the beauty things about horses - there are many ways of doing any given thing. You all do things with your horses that I wouldn't, and I do things you wouldn't. That's just horses. If Rory were a different horse I might not trust him in a standing stall, but he is who he is.
As far as the halter goes, that is a breakaway halter.
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