Recent content by Bigginge

Yes! Even more than normal! Am blaming it on boredom, even when turned out they stand at the gate wanting to come in, fields are too wet and slippy for them to want to burn off any energy and no real grass to mooch about nibbling

I'd go back to your original saddler, all new saddles will require adjustment after they have been ridden in for a few months and the flocking shifts and settles. Your horse could well have changed changed (and the original saddle fitter should still have your templates so you can easily see)...

This is crazy?! Bit like buying a second hand car, then suing the seller because it doesn't fit in your garage?!

Have you tried sedalin or the other sedative you syringe (sorry can't remember name off top of my head), you have to give it time to work, at least 30 minutes ime, before trying to do anything but it may work better than ACP. Other than that, I've no great advice, when my "idiot on the ground"...

Try a sports physio or personal trainer, there are lots of good exercises you can do to stretch those bits of you. I stretch every time before I get on now, and it has made a world of difference for me and my poor horse!

Enough is enough, when you've had enough! It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. If you don't much like him anymore or get any pleasure from him, then cut your losses and sell. Someone will buy him, you may have to accept a low price but be honest. He's not a total lost cause if he is good...

My Ariat Grasmeres last me years, not even sure how many 3 or 4? Just bought my second pair, yes they are a bit pricier but I've managed to buy end of line both times with about £100 knocked off. Wasn't as impressed with the windermere boots, they only lasted a little over a year before they...

Not all colic surgery is the same, impactions, displacements and twists, and where they occur all carry different risk levels and chances of survival. I had a 4-year old die less than 2 weeks after colic surgery, but faced with the same situation again I would still go through with the surgery...

He is young, you have to remember that horses having something on a horse's back is an innate trigger for stress. They are honest enough to let us do it but things will always be a bit scarier when we are up there, and just because we can't see that leaf moving or hear the rustling, doesn't mean...

He's 4, he's trying to tell you he's not coping with all the change. The honest ones try to hide it for as long as they can then freak out when they can't take anymore. Give him more time to settle, lead him in on his own so you only have to deal with him, get a rope halter or similar that you...

get off your computer now, go outside and go take your lorry round the block. Don't think about it or any of the what ifs, you will be fine. You are a very lucky thing to have a lorry so don't you dare miss out because you're over thinking. And men always make a big deal out of these things, it...

He has a lovely eye but I think you might struggle with saddle fitting

When you say had stifle OCD but now appears sound, has the OCD been investigated/operated on?

When this happened to me it was because the saddle wasn't wide enough, the action of the saddle trying to move forward would send the numnah backwards. Mine was a new saddle supposedly made to fit, once I got a wider saddle the problem went away

You will know, listen to your horse and don't be swayed by anybody else. I never thought I would be able to cope but I did and you will too. But you don't have to do anything today, and nothing tomorrow so just enjoy every day you have with him.