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Yes but if the clients leave then they would be totally out of work. This way they can have more in their pocket, work extra hours when they come up and still have their fixed hourly weeks work. Hopefully might even find more customers who would use them too. Will have a meeting with them. Thank you

Yes, but they can put down mobiles, fuel, work clothes etc against their tax so hopefully will actually be better off. I don't want them to be worse off as I value them and they are good staff. Also, I could afford to pay them more per hour. Will have a word with them and see what they think...

I have a livery yard and at the moment staff are paid on the books PAYE. With the increase in wages and pensions coming in it is getting unprofitable to run the yard. What do other yards do as I don't want to keep putting livery prices up as I will end up losing more customers who are very good...

I know to get one that fits!!!! Was just asking if any particular make was better than any other. Have decided on the HS1, expensive but you can't put a value on safety.

What is the best value for money riding hat. Im starting riding again and will be riding dressage, a bit of jumping and schooling young horses, won't be doing team chasing or anything like that. Too Old!!!!! Was looking at the champion evolution or HS1?

Yes, thats what I was thinking, and it is. Wont be needing it for 3 weeks, so should be fine.

Can you feed hay straight away to horses or should you wait a couple of weeks?

The horses have large black nets full of hay/haylage at 5pm, approximately 7kg. The ones that are being fed later are the ones that are being strip grazed and are laminitic so it doesn't make sense to me. All the horses were on a routine and happy to have nets at 5, now some are being fed at 7...

I have a livery yard and all horses have breakfast, go out into paddocks and come in to a small hay or haylage net. At 3 pm they are all given a feed and and 5 pm they are all put to bed with a large hay net. They are then given breakfast the following morning at 7 pm. Some owners seem to think...

I have quite a lot of clover on my paddocks, there is not a lot of grass and wondered if clover contains less sugars that grass if its tall. I know the shoots are high in sugar and clover contains protein and fibre, but would you turn horses onto it, only for 2-3 hours a day. They are small...

It would be a cheap for you to just put one in, new. The drains and the digging out cost the most. By the time you have separated the surface, payed for transport and relaying and bought new membrane you might as well have just bought in a new surface.

She does have the hay soaked in fresh water every time and she is also on Gastrguard for the ulcer, down to half a syringe now. :-/

PS, she doesnt weave but its like that from the salt to the crib bar.

She has been scoped and does have one ulcer at the back which is quite deep. She is on coligon for that. Didnt know about the too much salt though. She's cribbing (three sucks) then licking the salt excessively, she looks as though shes doing it as part of her habit. Like weaving, she does crib...

I have a horse that is on box rest so having not exercise, she is a cribber and got a salt lick in her box. She is being walked out for three 10 minute sessions quietly to keep her colic down. However, she is still collicing once a week, she is on soaked hay because of laminitis. She has strted...