Recent content by algy666

Dylan says: Get the Carrot Lady to put it in a bucket for you, then just attack it with your teeth! Although I maybe have a bigger mouth than you, my mum says its "like the Clyde Tunnel", but I don't really know what that means

Ok, what's the email address for admin? My computer logs me in automatically so I totally forgot my username was different from my login name! :(

Don't compete but will still be riding as normal I'm in my final year at uni

I may have slightly bullied my nervous friend into riding today she had her tack out, and then decided she didn't have time. I made her go along the bridle path and back (takes less than 15 mins), she did it and came back smiling if she goes 3 steps further next time, it'll be progress. She's...

Probably mites, there's a couple at our yard had them, they both stamped their back legs.

Thanks we're only about 20 miles from Greenock

Mine was sold as "fairly experienced rider required", so pretty much the same as "not novice ride" ... he's a complete lunatic; but my first horse was also "not a novice ride", and he was an absolute sweetheart, just a bit green because he was young.

Really good to hear you've got over your nerves, a friend of mine's in the same boat her horse is an absulte gem, but for some reason she keeps losing her nerve. She barely got off the yard yesterday and had to come beck she's getting quite upset about it, especially as the horse hasn't done...

Tried the french link hanging cheek for the first time this morning ... he went really well in it I'm going to ride him in that for a while before I think about buying one, in case he'd just decided to behave because it was something different

Christ, no wonder the horse doesn't know what she wants it to do, even I can't figure it out poor animal, it looks so confused. If anyone tried that with mine he'd flatten them.

Get the RSPCA to pay them a visit and explain that there's nothing wrong with your horses, that you are looking after them properly and their weight loss is to do with their breeding and age, not because you're neglecting them. A friend of mine has an elderly TB, he looks like a hat rack in...

I'd go for TB cross, no idea what the cross might be.

I'm going to borrow a hanging cheek from one of the girls at the yard, try it for a week or so to see if it helps

That's pretty scary when I was that age my dad wouldn't let me on a horse without hat AND body protector! Yes, we all know our horses, but we should also know that they can be unpredictable, and a riding hat CAN be the difference between life and death. I think the only law is that children...

OH refers to mine as "the travelling shed" ... it's absolutely minging, full of mud and hay and boots and more mud ...