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I keep my two horses on my home farm, and they are paddocked 100% of the time. They rarely need rugs, as trees and dam banks provide adiquate shelter, and are occasionally fed hay (if the season's bad) They require very little vetinary assistance, as they are not subject to the hazards involved with stabling, and in the 16 years I have had horses, kept permanently in the paddock, they have not been affected by any virus (strangles, flu etc) They often share a paddock with sheep or cattle, and appear to enjoy the open spaces and freedom.
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∙ 13y agoIt depends on what kind of farm the horses are being raised on. In a jumping farm, horses are usually raised from around 2 years old- they don't birth it.
In those barns, they are lunged and trained under saddle at 3 years. They are trained into the jumping ways, and begin competing as the trainer sees fit.
At racing farms, the horses are usually birthed there and become retired race mares. They are turned out with their mom for the first 6 months-1 year. Then, they are weaned- they are put in a separate paddock and the mothers are kept far away.
Their training begins at 6 months, and they race at 2, 3 and 4 years old.
Other farms, such as mine. Horses are born and spend the first six months of their lives with mom. After that they are gelded (if male) and removed from that paddock in put into the herd. They will spend the next year and a half there.
After that we start light work. The draft horses get less work and longer periods of rest, to allow those bigger bones to firm up.
At about age 3 we start placing blankets and saddles on them. 30 days of work is required before we consider them "green" broke. Further work with trainers is required before the public can touch them.
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