Recent content by AShetlandBitMeOnce

A smidge under - that last word is important 😂 The bottom photos he would have been around 17hh'ish, I make anything look 14.2hh! He was 16.2hh when he got off the lorry from Ireland at rising 3, so in all honestly I have known my 'get something a more reasonable size for longevity reasons'...

This is Fat Boy, he is rising 6 in May and now a smidge under 17.3hh (so much for 'to make 16.2hh'). He had most of December off, and on/off work prior to that due to recovery from stifle surgery so he looks suuuuuper weedy right now. Came back into part time, weather permitting work about...

https://www.baileyshorsefeeds.co.uk/products/fibre-plus-nuggets Low calorie and 20kg for £18 in my local - they easily last me 6 months Dex got snatchy when I did his stretches and caught my fingers a couple times, so he now touches my hand with his nose on the 'touch' command and is then...

I think it depends on the area of the country as well - my 5 day part livery is £625 and that's without any feed (£29), shoes (£120), insurance (£26), supplements (£27) The purely DIY on our yard is £270pcm, so by the time you have added on the above un-negotiable extras (£202) and a bale of hay...

I track everything that comes in/out of my bank on a spreadsheet, as a single person (with ADHD) living in the south east with a house, horse on part livery and car, I have to otherwise I'd be up sh!t creek without a paddle real quick. I narrowed my financial leak down to impulse/dopamine...

I fully believe that the most valuable thing you can teach a horse for both your happiness, their happiness/confidence/willing/enjoyment and the best chances of long term success, is that they will never be punished for a try.

I sympathise! 6ft fencing in a private enclosed garden, single owner occupied house, no visiting children or other pets in the house, had dogs all my childhood including the type I'd like to adopt, no holidays booked, would need a dog that is non-reactive due to needing them to come into the...

I actually felt sorry for Dex turning him out this morning, none of the fields on our yard have any shelter as we are in a valley on open land and it wasn't hammering it down but lightly raining which is has been for seemingly the last hundred years so he'll be completely fine but it was dank...

Thanks all! It has certainly reminded me why I slog through the winters. It's probably lucky that I can't, I'd end up keeping them all 😂 And the toddler level clumsy destruction to the yard would be enormous!

Thank you! It's such a great feeling when he does something and all that training we did when he was 3/4yo shines through - he just makes it all such a pleasure. I have to admit though, I was happy to just get home safe and sound after all that, I was thinking what the hell is next?! Sods...

Today I am grateful to have such a star of a horse, he hasn't left the yard in probably 3 months due to the ground on our available hacks, the weather, the loss of my mojo, the daylight etc etc - today was gorgeous so I got off work early and took him out for a walk up the usually quiet road...

As an aside, he is a smidge under 17.3hh now and 5yo - think he's stopped!

It has a lid buckled on :) They could likely smash their way in if desperate, but it would take a hell of a lot of work.

My horse eat a whole packet of my menthol cigarettes when they used to be a thing and was totally fine, plus a bag of carrots including the plastic bag they were in.. Our yard of 10 puts all our feeds in a dustbin on top of each other pre soaked the night before and each bucket has a cable...

Mine as a 3yo learned to kick the door in the morning from the horse opposite, he doesn't want hay or feed or to go out, he wants attention and he rarely does it when I am there as he knows it's naughty so I can't correct him. In an effort to not spend £400 on a quitkick I put two trugs of water...