Here’s the final video with a complete overview on the construction of our outdoor riding arena!
It was a fascinating process, and I just updated and completed my ‘confession’ post, so you can read all about the final steps>>
In that post you can also get an impression of my first training session in the new arena!
Confession:
I did not train my horses for 10 months.
And that might sound weird for a professional horse trainer.
People assume that you train all day every day…
That you keep the momentum…
That it’s never a struggle to stay on track.
But you know what? Read More..
Moving home will cause both you and your horse to leave the comfort zone, so for sure it will be ‘stretchful’, but it doesn’t have to be stressful.
It just requires planning and here are a few things I learned from my experience in moving from the Netherlands to Portugal.
So let’s wrap up the ‘Moving to Portugal’ series with the checklist with 3️⃣8️⃣ items on how to move a horse to a new home.
And I hope that – for those who will move their horses in the (near) future – it will help you and your horse to have your transition as close to comfortable as possible.
Now in this checklist, I divided the entire transition – from the old to the new home – into 6 phases:
In September, we all have been settling down in Portugal:
We have been busy with unpacking all the boxes and furnishing of all rooms.
But the horses have been acting like real grasshoppers 😉.
On the final day of traveling, we loaded the horse’s early in the morning, before sunrise.
This way, we would be sure to arrive at our new house before sunset, so the horses would be able to get to know their new home during daylight.
Now already in July, we prepared an ‘arrival’ paddock in the garden behind the house, with a temporary fence.
And we scanned all three fields for poisonous plants, such as ragwort.
We also created two options for unloading, because we had the feeling, that the truck wouldn’t be able to pass the gate…
And indeed…
