What does a horse need?
A bicycle would cost less, eat less, take less preparation, be 100% quiet and willing to haul you around, and be much less likely to die on you. I suggest you go “natural” with an old-fashioned man powered mountain bike to get you from one end of your property to the other. Horses are complicated, dangerous and quite fragile. You could easily kill it if you feed it too much, not enough, or the right amount of the wrong thing. It could kill you too if you encounter something scary on your ride, or some other situation you’re ill equipped to handle and it behaves as nature tells it to. They are big, strong scardy-cats. Horses need vet twice yearly, farrier every 6 weeks, dentist yearly, shelter, bedding, hay, grain, water, exercise, love, discipline, companionship of other animals, and loads of money. And that’s if everything goes as planned and it doesn’t get it’s leg caught somewhere, come up lame, colic, hurt it’s eyes, start losing weight, start misbehaving or go through the fence. A
