Question about getting another horse?

I am very sorry to hear about your loss.

If I were you I would get a trained horse that is around 8. I have found some great horses around that age. Horses can learn barrels very well. It is easy to train them. What I have learned is to walk them around the barrel around 25 times everyday. If you don't have that kind of time, then just walk them around as many times you can, but don't do everyone back to back because the horse will get irritated. Just do like 8 at a time then take a break then do 8 more. Try to get a horse with 6 or less temperament. If their isn't a scale, then just see if the horse seems to spunky to be for you.

Lots of horses can be kept with goats. Their age doesn't matter as long as they know what they are and can get used to them. I knew a horse that would not go anywhere without his goats. I believe he was with his goats since he was 1 or 2.

So I think that 8 is a good age horse for you, give or take a couple years. That gives you a long time to spend with your horse. And for the goats, i am pretty sure that it won't be an issue.

Good luck and sorry for your loss.

Lexi

Horses are fine with goats at any age, I just recently added many goats to my herd of 13 horses.

My recommendation for getting a new horse when you are ready is to go with an 8-15 year old.

You have some experience, but by the time you are ready to get back on, you will be missing riding so much that you won't want to wait for a youngster to be trained.

That is a good age range, still spunky, has some mileage and will last a good long time for you.

Sorry about your old critter-it really stinks losing them.

You probably don't have enough experience to train a very young horse yourself. If you'd like a young-ish horse, get one that's been ridden for a few years but is still pretty young, like something 6 to 10 years old. You would have plenty of time left with him/her. You shouldn't rule out older horses, though. You might find that perfect teenage horse, and you never really know how long they'll live and be useful.

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