Recent content by Alibear

You'll probably find the GoPro will change peoples attitudes. There are old posts on here of me saying hi-viz etc don't make any difference but they definitely do now a days. Hi-Viz and a visible camera and suddenly 99% of people are lovely.

I've gone for local small practise and am happy to be referred on for anything they can't do in house. They also help shop around for referral options and pricing. I like knowing the vets and a continuity of care. There has been a couple of administrative oopps but they were sorted quickly...

Someone has left her mark already and has zero regrets :D

After the initial excitement on going out a different way this morning, it's been heads down hoovering the grass since. With the weird temp changes, I'm going over later this evening to pop her no fill on as it says down to 4 degrees overnight despite saying its 15 during the day.

Ours are switching to living out on Wednesday, we're lucky to have spring paddocks for them to go onto. They've been pre-grazed to some degree by YOs horses so hopefully ours won't turn into blimps :D Ambers already showing signs of spring excitement so I'm wondering which will win, more...

Yes Equilibrium do one.

If the weight of the trailer with horse and everything loaded is less than the towing capacity of the car, I'll happily tow with it. I do about 1000 miles per year towing. Caveat is I do live in East Anglia and the hilliest area I've towed in is Yorkshire. Other people do differently. I'd tow a...

Firstly, remember that even with more interventions etc your mare may still have ended up where she is now, so please be kind to yourself. I'd structure this as feedback to the vets rather than a complaint. Purely because I did so once and got a very positive response. I think people don't get...

Yep I've had two horses that just found them horribly itchy, two different rugs so it wasn't an issue with a specific rug. Odd I know as everyone raves about them, which meant I could sell them on easily :)

100% I'd draw a line and retire, and I would also fully support a PTS decision. Well done on trying your absolute best for her.

According to my vet joint space needs to be 2ml or more for arthramid due to the viscosity of the gel and hence the needle size required. Under 2ml steroids is the best option if cartrophen hasn't shown any improvement. So as others have said a top up catrophen could be worth at try.

AS per @TheMule I'd leave any work on travelling until you've got him healthy again, it's hard work for them if they're compromised anywhere. Well done on getting him looked at and it sounds like you have a good plan to get him comfy again. There's a lot of options out there for arthritis so...

Aspen is growing and the trainers are very busy so he's going to be outstanding in his field until June. He'll then be fully 4 years old and hopefully through this growth/change and he can start being backed. This does mean I doubt I'll be riding him this year, so poor old Amber will have to...

Monday - Last day of Sean Coleman clinic, traver, renver in trot and canter with canter then introducing flying changes back to the "correct" lead. Got it both ways :) Then travel home and unpack. A very long day for both of us. Tuesday - Back to work for me and field time for Amber...

I have ad hoc zoom sessions with my local centre 10 coach for this, she doesn't know much about western but can help walk me through my own thoughts/challenges, timescales on things and really helped when I was stuck on warm up strategies in 2024.