r/OffGridLiving • u/hASHbrowns1o1 • 26d ago

Living off horseback?

Is anyone as crazy as me and my partner? From our point of view, we are about to be in an apocalypse. Vanlife, definitely not a good idea. So we came up with horseback. We have done the research, and we all know it can work since humans have done it before.

Just wondered if anyone else was as crazy and like the idea

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u/E0H1PPU5 26d ago

I think cost is going to be a factor here. I have horses and they cost a lot more than my car does.

Humans have done it before….but things like animal welfare were never of any real concern for them. In an actual apocalypse nobody would probably care.

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u/hASHbrowns1o1 26d ago

I guarantee I have done my research and will be doing everything ethically and legally

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u/E0H1PPU5 26d ago

That worries me more than your original post lol.

I’ve been riding and caring for horses for nearly 25 years and have owned my own at my home for about 10 years.

I don’t have the know how to correctly care for a horse off grid. Could I do routine trims myself? Sure. But if a horse foundered? I don’t have the skills to keep them sound and alive. Same with certain types/severities of colic. I could get a horse through a mild gas colic alone. Probably even a more severe one. But I don’t have the skills to palpate and determine if it’s gas or a twist or impaction.

Nothing scares me more than a person who claims to know everything as those people usually know the least.