Recent content by 9tails

Vet. Could be anything, from a girth gall to a fractured rib or ulcers. But she's definitely telling you that she's got pain going on.

This sort of "horsemanship by numbers" is really difficult to implement by horse people with no feel or ability to read horses. I don't think it can be taught, you either have it or you don't. You can get great results with their practices, as long as you know the cues to back off. The...

Is your pricing right? Because if you're getting slack jaws from people coming to see they may be expecting more for their money.

I'm on a DIY yard. The yard sells hay to us, does fencing repairs, pushes up/removes the muck heap, maintains the stable barns and levels the school. There are some that ask favours of others, ie. put in breakfast or a net, bring in or turn out, but we have a couple of people that do those...

Don't be a hard rider. Full stop. You wouldn't be on their back but for their good nature.

They are very good quality. I've had mine, a beta synthetic leather headstall, for 15 years and it still looks as good as day 1. Give Bitless Equestrian a call, I'm fairly sure I bought mine from there.

They could rent that dog out for a pretty penny, I despise breaking up shavings clumps.

No to: prone to laminitis, EMS, PSSM1 or 2. In fact, anything that is a good doer really - I want the horse to live out 24/7 in summer. Hard to catch, won't share a field, badly socialised, cribs or wind sucks. Must: hack alone, be sound, not be grey, be longer rather than shorter compact...

Agree with Pearlsasinger. I won't be asking for ashes back in a pretty box when my horse is cremated. Have to agree with first poster that it's a huge waste of rescue money.

Horse has a large bed of wood pellets and small flake shavings. She kicks her poos around and, if the hay isn't up to scratch, that gets thrown in the bed too. She does 10 poos a night from 6pm until 6.30am so there's a lot of poo kicked around. She also dunks her hay so there's wet hay and...

butt, she missed off a t.

I think I've developed trench foot.

The nostrils have highlighted the white nose so add sunburn to your list!

Don't worry too much yet, if anything it looks like it's on the third eyelid and they can cope fine without it. A horse on my yard had one removed last week, he was at the vet for 2 hours and it was done under standing sedation.

So pleased it wasn't just me! His nostrils look normal to me as well.