Recent content by Boulty

So cute! So flooofy! But also looks like a chaos gremlin 😂

I don’t write notes as I’m too lazy (& can’t do it with gloves on if anyone human needs to be able to read it!) From watching some of what David Zuend was doing and catching the tail end of Joe’s ponying demo have concluded that ponying a youngster from another horse is only useful if you have...

Update… I had not actually broken it just didn’t have enough brain function to remember it has a double zip… I am capable of dressing myself, going out on my own and holding down a job I swear! (It’s just that 5 hrs of sleep followed by a 3 hr drive and then being somewhere very peopoly is not...

Well I’ve just discovered that whilst washing my fleecey equidry I’ve broken the frigging zip! Is this the universe telling me that I DO in fact need another?!

Equidry have up to £80 off some of their coats if you’re not too fussed on colour. Am sitting on my hands as I do not need 3 of them! (Or do I?!) Sulking at lack of red horse products deals as that’s what I currently need to stock up. Also disappointed that decathlon have only discounted...

This was one of the many concerning things Fuzzball did. He carried his neck unusually low (like nose on the ground low) the vast majority of the time and if he did raise it then it had to be in one fast movement. He couldn’t raise or lower in a slow, deliberate way if that makes sense? The...

There are a few of the bagged haylages that should be safe for a laminitic (obv ignore this if she’s previously done badly on known low sugar haylage). I had a very sensitive PPID laminitis prone Welsh D who actually did better on haylage generally. Horsehage Timothy, Devon Haylage Timothy or...

Oh & re why DEFRA isn’t requiring testing from other high risk countries, why indeed?! Actually agree that it would make way more sense to require the same level of testing from anywhere deemed as high risk (guessing they’re going after where numerically highest no of imports come from but yeah...

Risk assessments are subject to review and can change as new evidence emerges or perceptions of risk / what is and is not an acceptable risk changes. It used to be common practice to manually hold small animal patients still for X-rays in this country (including sometimes having human body...

We’re all doing the best with what we’ve got & very few people have access to the absolute ideal circumstances. I don’t think a lot of people “get” what it’s like to have an EXTREME good doer until they have one and that not all of them will test as having EMS and so can’t have access to...

I found tricklenet’s forage calculator good to get a rough idea of how much they should be eating as a minimum...

I have done F all with the pony this weekend (parents went away overnight so had to be back to do seizure watch on the Hooligan spaniel last night & today I was originally supposed to be having a friend come & visit but we’ve rearranged so instead after my 3 hrs of yard jobs I clipped someone...

If not wanting a “full size” clipper then Wahl KMC+. More than capable of going thru a cob coat with the wide blades on. May take a little while if you’re wanting to do a full clip though.

Be curious but don’t be stupid. (Says the person who thought showjumping and hunting were ideal “trying out my mate’s hackamore that I’m borrowing” activities…) If you want to try bitless then go for it, but do so in a safe area that the horse is comfortable with and check your brakes and...

I’m going Sat / Sun. Despite hating myself last year when I had to get up at 5am I am once again not staying over Friday night 🙈. Not quite so fussed for getting there on the dot of it opening this year as reason I did that last year was to see Phillipe Karl. Once again I’ll be driving the...