Recent content by Abacus

I had similar once with a horse I loaned out locally. This horse has never been anything other than an angel. He started trying to run back to his field away from the handler, breaking a bridle and being uncharacteristically bolshy about it. Didn’t want to be ridden. This was in the first...

From a safety point of view if you were doing this it would be good to have a human door on the bed side. If there was a fire in the living you need an alternate way out.

When you say weekends away, do you mean with horse or without - are you trying to turn it into a multipurpose horsebox/motorhome, or are you going away with the horse? Also, are you alone or with someone? If alone, I wonder if you could have a narrow single bed on the drivers side, lengthways...

I use a plastic electric fence post which I keep by the gate. Shove it in firmly with one gate open wide enough not to get up a good strong swing in the wind.

Could you ask something like, 'have you worm counted her' and comment that although the mare has a belly, her topline and muscle have gone? Of course it may not be worms, etc etc, but by saying that you can comment on the overall condition without a direct contradiction, and this might draw your...

Might the old poultice trick of a dry nappy work, with vetrap or duck tape on above the sole but not covering the sole? Possibly with a poultice boot over the top to keep it dry.

I also have a (just) 5 year old, he was backed a year ago, and had two decent sessions of work (about 8 weeks each) with a break in between and another for winter. I brought him back in 7 weeks ago. He still gets tired after about 20 mins in the school (and not asking a great deal in that time)...

I once took a horse up north hunting with a friend (at a very fancy hunt, not near me). Bathed him, washed a stable rug as he was staying in at hers overnight. Got there in the morning to find that the stable rug had dyed him blue, so I had to take a blue horse hunting.

Presumably you also poo pick the sandpit, so could you rake it as you would an arena once or twice per week? Either with an arena rake or chain harrow.

To look after the horse first of course. Then assuming this is accomplished, to win the race. But never the second at the expense of the first. Having looked at the footage posted here, not the whole race, I believe that the horse did slow considerably after that slip. I’d be surprised if the...

Have you tried eBay or vinted? There are still a few pairs of bromonts about.

His face! I've never seen a horse so clearly trying to express 'WTF??'

I’m not advocating for this as a way to increase the weight limit (or for having overweight horses) but - is it theoretically correct in this calculation to add the additional horse weight to the rider +tack weight? That extra horse weight is differently distributed across the body rather than...

Sorry if it's an unpleasant answer. The ones we have had shot - there is some blood, and potentially also some other matter at the site. In the 3 cases I have been there for, there wasn't a vast quantity and it could be hosed away (we have a grass area where it was done). In these cases there...

For me it was the wording that raised an eyebrow - 'Ideally something happy to take 15 stone'. But only ideally. If the horse is a bit unhappy with it then that would also be ok. I'm sure she didn't mean it this way, but...