Posted 2007-07-06 9:25 PM (#63411) Subject: Trailer for Draft Horse?
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Location: Grass Valley, CA
Hi,
Need some advice on which trailers would be best for a good size draft horse? Looking for a 3 or 4 horse gooseneck (1 shire/gypsy cross draft, 2 light horses, 1 donkey). Anyone with recommendations on what to look for to hold/haul draft even when she's full grown? (Will be 2 in August and is currently at 1,049 lbs and getting close to 17 hands... and still a few growing years ahead of us!)
We've done some thinking on Trails West and now have been reading some on Titans. Probably will be looking for a relatively new (2005-2007) used trailer. Appreciate any advice from other draft owners out there.
Posted 2007-07-07 11:06 PM (#63444 - in reply to #63429) Subject: RE: Trailer for Draft Horse?
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Location: NY
I have a Belgium horse and I wonted something strong so I look at jamco -EBY and exiss I got a stock combo EBY with 7' long stall and regular size with( did not wont wheel in with horses). EBY and jamco are commercial grade and yes very pricey but I am only buying one trailer all aluminum
Posted 2007-07-08 8:12 PM (#63473 - in reply to #63411) Subject: RE: Trailer for Draft Horse?
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Location: Rio Linda, CA
Hello, We have a Belgian Draft horse that keeps growing, so we went with the
Featherlite Big Horse Trailer, model 8549, (3 horse gooseneck) it has the 50 inch wide stalls, 7 1/2 interior height, and 8 ft wide, and extra tall front stall escape door, and now our draft has the perfect amount of room. After a lot of research, I found that most trailer manufacturers would make the stalls this wide, it just had to be a custom order trailer, whereas the Featherlite dealer in my area, has them in stock. Just because a trailer salesman tells you your horse will fit, it's the "biggest they make", be wary...until they know it's a draft horse, they all wanna sell you their big trailer.
Posted 2007-07-08 10:54 PM (#63484 - in reply to #63473) Subject: RE: Trailer for Draft Horse?
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Location: NY
That is what i found - ow yes every horse fits in one of these trailer ( I own a draft horse) well you will need a differnt size trailer sir right slant load did not fit for me the stall were to small all around
Posted 2007-07-09 10:18 AM (#63498 - in reply to #63411) Subject: RE: Trailer for Draft Horse?
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Location: Coconut Creek, FL
make sure it's 7"6" or taller, check the length of the stall as that will vary quite a bit besides the width. The higher quality trailers tend to make larger & longer stalls, hence the higher price tag besides the quality.
Posted 2007-07-09 11:54 AM (#63504 - in reply to #63411) Subject: RE: Trailer for Draft Horse?
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Location: santa clara, ca
I have a 4 year Percheron Mare near 17h and 1500lbs(she uses and 87" balnket) and the other horse is a 16.2h NSH: we got a 4h BP Circle J Lighting Deluxe and basically made it into a very big 2horse slant stall (7'4" H and 6'6" works fine since the perch has a short neck). Occasionally, for short trip, we can put the NSH and our third horse (a littel shy of 16h) int he last two slant slots.
i would recomend getting a 5 horse if you are going to move 4 horse. Othereise since i assume the donkey is relatively small you could load the draft and the donkey next to each other(in different stalls) and maybe enlarge the draft horse slant while making the donkey's smaller by redrilling the side of the trailer and moutning the divider further back/fwd depending on you loading configuration