{"id":26,"date":"2005-06-30T20:34:32","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T15:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=26"},"modified":"2005-06-30T20:35:35","modified_gmt":"2005-06-30T15:35:35","slug":"conditioning-a-horse-thats-been-out-to-pasture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/trainers-corner\/conditioning-a-horse-thats-been-out-to-pasture\/","title":{"rendered":"CONDITIONING A HORSE THAT&#8217;S BEEN OUT TO PASTURE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My 6 y\/o gelding has alwasy been in excellent competition shape untill last year.  Due to a large move, change of job &#038; purchase of a new ranch, he has been turned out to pasture (65 acres),  since last Sept.  I have only ridden him lightly for about 30min at a time 4-5 times this year.  He is healthy, with all shot&#8217;s &#038; deworming UTD, as well as farrier care, he just hasn&#8217;t been ridden.  I feed Ultium 1 1\/2 scoops 2 x day, plus the pasture is planted in jiggs bermuda.  What&#8217;s your recommendation on how to best get him back into competition shape, and how long before I can run him again?  <\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Tammy Thomson<br \/>\nHamshire, Texas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;ve always heard you should take 1 week for every month the horse was turned out to leg them back up.  In your case that would be 9 weeks.  I would imagine that your horse would be somewhat fit to run before that but I would be putting a lot of runs each week on him until he is fully fit with adequate &#8220;air&#8221;.<br \/>\nMartha Wright<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you,  I really expected it to take longer than that.  I didn&#8217;t want to rush him.  I have him on the walker, started @ 20 min working up to 45 min day with plans to start riding him for an hour a day after that &#038; then increasing as he seems to tolerate it.  Maybe I&#8217;m moving a little too slow.  I will watch his &#8220;wind&#8221; &#038; evaluate.  Again, thank you for your time.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 6 y\/o gelding has alwasy been in excellent competition shape untill last year.  Due to a large move, change of job &#038; purchase of a new ranch, he has been turned out to pasture (65 acres),  since last Sept<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fittness","category-trainers-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}