List of Things To Take On Long Trip

[JennLM]

We will be heading out the 10th or 11th of February heading towards Alabama with TJ. We are meeting up in Arkansas so he can go to his new home.

I'm starting to compile a list of things to bring with on our trip and I am sure I will miss things.

What kind of things have you found to have saved your life (like fuses, fix a flat etc) and what would you never travel without.

[CarolU]

I carry first aid kits for both humans and horses, also carry banamine and paste electrolytes for sure. Many people start them on electrolytes before a major trip. Water from home. Enough hay to do a safe feed change in his new home. Carry a blanket, even if you don't need/use it. Extra halter and lead. Extra trailer tie.

Before the trip use Map Quest to find which exits have restaurants and gas along the way. There is also a website that does the cheapest gas. I'd find that. On our last trip we paid 30 cents/gallon more then we needed to along I-15, when over the mountain (on our route) it was cheaper. Also lets you know state to state, so you can fill up where it's cheapest.

Horse hotels?? Or are you driving straight through?

[JennLM]

We will be staying at the Big Texan both ways with a room next to the horse motel side. And Nicole is putting up with us for a night in Alabama ; )

I'm going to have one of those 3 page lists, I can just see it now LOL

Thanks for the ideas! I've never gone this far with a horse/trailer before.

[Linda Y]

Tools. Enough feed for the trip, plus enough for a week to change him over. Buckets. Broom and pitchfork. Vetwrap.
For you, music, a book on tape or CD. The right clothes. A cooler with drinks and some snacky stuff. Aspirin or drug of choice.
My trailer is set up so I could live it in...and the horses could live out of it. Pretty much all I have to do is add feed, hay and my food. I take a little of everything that I find essential and useful at home.

[JennLM]

For us it's a little more difficult. The trailer has no storage room or tack room or roof rack and the truck has a lid on the back so bulky items are difficult.

We feed an alfalfa/oat cube so transporting that will be easy. I'll have to break the hay into flakes I guess.

I hope this is the only long distance trip we have to take. *crosses fingers*

[moonrize]

The most important thing to me is your vet kit. Definetely include bute, banamine, and some type of tranquilizer (just in case). Leg wraps, twitch (ya never know...), extra halter and lead. Join US Rider BEFORE you leave (it's like Triple A for people with horses - they will come rescue you AND the horses and horse trailer if something happens - well worth the money).

[Linda Y]

Oh, yeah...US Rider is a great idea! No towing company will tow your truck with the horse trailer on it except them...good suggestion!
I put my hay flakes in a black plastic garbage bag to carry. Was going to invest in one of those bale carriers, but they were too expensive.
Also, to make it easy on me because I am so lazy, I would put each horses feeding into individual zip lock bags, so it was all made up with any suppliments already mixed and I didn't have to carry all those different containers. Then I could just dump it in their bucket when we got where we were going. Also saved me from having to dig so much in the tack room(or in your case crawling up into the truck!) of the trailer looking for the feed that shifted while moving, or spilling it.

[JennLM]

The most important thing to me is your vet kit. Definetely include bute, banamine, and some type of tranquilizer (just in case). Leg wraps, twitch (ya never know...), extra halter and lead. Join US Rider BEFORE you leave (it's like Triple A for people with horses - they will come rescue you AND the horses and horse trailer if something happens - well worth the money).

Our farrier told us about it but then we forgot the name, thanks so much!