08-10-2009, 09:51 PM
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#1 | Weanling
Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Very Rural SE Kentucky
Posts: 349
| Safety orange for turnout during hunting season? Our horses are currently pastured at the neighbor's down the road. When we get them to our property, they will have access to some wooded areas. Our property borders a huge game reserve which will be full of hunters this fall. Now, in theory there shouldn't be any hunters on our land other than my husband or friends who are aware of our horses. My husband says I don't need to worry about it, but I would like to get some hunter orange on them - at least for modern gun season when there are a lot more hunters out (he won't let me go jogging without hunter orange, even on the road, during the season). I've seen suggestions for things to put on them for trail rides during hunting season, but I need stuff I can put on them while they are loose. I haven't put turnout sheets on them before and they don't seem like a good idea in the woods. Any suggestions - cheaper of course is better, but I don't mind spending money on stuff if it will keep them safe. |
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08-11-2009, 01:14 PM
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#2 | Green Broke
Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on a farm, duh!
Posts: 3,313
| You can spray paint the trees around your area with purple I think and put up no trespassing signs. If anyone crosses that border without permission, you can take legal action. |
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08-11-2009, 01:30 PM
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#3 | Green Broke
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Montana
Posts: 3,867
| Orange turnout boots? |
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08-11-2009, 01:51 PM
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#4 | Green Broke
Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on a farm, duh!
Posts: 3,313
| ^See that's what I thought at first, but they would be shooting at the body, and not the legs so, and with underbrush, they wouldn't see the legs very clearly. |
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08-11-2009, 01:54 PM
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#5 | Yearling
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Colorado
Posts: 807
| Orange breakaway halters? |
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08-11-2009, 01:56 PM
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#6 | Green Broke
Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on a farm, duh!
Posts: 3,313
| ^I like that! |
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08-11-2009, 01:58 PM
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#7 | Green Broke
Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Rochester, New York
Posts: 2,745
| Could you just buy some hunter orange sheets for the horses?
I found this on another forum... The Original Equine PROTECTAVEST - Blaze orange horse vests
And if you scroll down to the bottom of the page, there are a few different ideas. |
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08-11-2009, 01:59 PM
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#8 | Green Broke
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Montana
Posts: 3,867
| It was something intended to be paired with other things. |
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08-11-2009, 02:01 PM
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#9 | Started
Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA. ;]
Posts: 1,853
| Paint them orange? lmao jk. But i but orange collars on my goats... maybe extra super large collars? lol |
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08-11-2009, 02:27 PM
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#10 | Yearling
Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 796
| I dunno if this would work but just a thought.. (person who said paint them orange made me think of it) They do make this paint-ish type stuff that they sell for marking cows. I know it comes in bright bright orange. Maybe that would help? Combined with something else (turnout boots, halter, etc.)? It's pretty inexpensive. |
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