Why use a ramp??My trailer has one and I never take it down- I use the grooms door and they hop in and out.
Me too...that's what I thought, and
did...until I hurt, and ruined my beautiful filly doing it. She hurt herself the first time as a yearling, jumping in. She slipped upon entering, and slid in on her knees, her left hind folded underneath, and her right hind leg hyper-extended behind her. It took a long time for her stiffle to heal, but it finally did. I never asked a horse to
enter without the ramp again... The next year, same filly, she fell and slipped jumping
out. Just me being too dam* lazy to put the ramp down...I mean what the heck...how could she hurt herself going out? Well, she and
three legs made it out, but she left that right leg behind her, and it hyper-extended again. (Probably because it wasn't as quick as it should be, from the first injury, I think,
now, in retrospect...) Now I have a beautiful little "cripple". I kick my as* every day, when I look at her...but espceially on the occations that her bad leg acts-up on her.
Sorry to go on so...but having "been there-done that"...this is my word of experience.
I have a ramp on my trailer which simply slides in and out, from
under the trailer. I will post pictures in a day or so, when my trailer is home.