Inside Your Horse Trailer

less likely to develop antitrailering issues later on.
Trailer size becomes more important as we increase the number of horses hauled at any one time. Its one thing to have a horse crammed into a tiny space but when you get three or four horses with insufficient room you have a recipe for disaster. Its just a matter of time before one of them decides hes had enough and rebels and when that happens its not too long before the rest of the herd joins in. Ive never seen a stampede inside a horse trailer and Im not sure Id ever want to.
Theres a lot of debate about stall width in trailers. As with pretty much everything else about our equine buddies it all depends on the horse. Very few horses actually like to lean against a wall or divider in fact many almost panic if anything touches them at all. You should assess your horses needs in this area and choose accordingly. As a rule I like to aim for a stall that will give a horse enough room to comfortably shift weight from side to side but not so much that he runs the risk of turning around or falling in between walls and dividers. In most cases three to six inches on either side of the horse is plenty for a standing stall. I opt for box stalls whenever possible as the additional room makes for a much easier trip for the horse.