Recent content by Boulty

He’s about 14.1… I think (don’t own a measuring stick!) He looks bigger from a distance than he does close up (he also looks bigger when launching himself a few feet in the air!) Definitely still a scrawny baby pony in real life! (Not the wild stallion he thinks he is in his head!)

It’s wet & miserable and cold and I want to hibernate & the unsurfaced bits of track are mainly sludge aside from one stretch that drains the best (fairly sandy soil but there are limits!). Thank the lord for mud mats! The pony of the other hand has slightly different opinions on it all...

Hi bit of a randomness but seeking good training treats that are ideally somewhere in between a normal sized horse treat (a bit bigger than I’m ideally wanting) and a meadow nut (a bit too small). Low sugar & low calorie as well please. I’m currently using agrobs treats (can’t remember the...

Some more… Regularly watching the Shetland duck under the (netting) fencing between the 3 main turnout fields leading us all on a merry dance whilst he evaded capture! (Sometimes you literally had to fling yourself at him as he cantered past!) Trying to ride in the showjumping field on a...

I’d agree with others that herringbone or stallion partition setups sound like your best bet. Wouldn’t personally risk a breast bar with something known to try & climb over things.

Making the muck heap straight enough that you could have rested a spirit level on it then jumping from the top step straight on to the bottom one (& it being the best job in winter as it would warm your feet up!) Playing haynets on a wheelbarrow roulette (& getting bollocked if one fell off...

Would agree that temperament and experience is more important than breed. (Although a lot of breeds do have traits that they are known for/ that are common in the breed) You ideally want 10-12 upwards age wise as hopefully then has enough life experience that you shouldn’t actively be having to...

He was eyeing up potential girlfriend material just out of shot 😂

Me on a selection of 14.2s (roughly… the bay was probably a shade under & the Highland a shade over). I’m roughly 5ft6 with a short body and longer legs (I’m quite long hip to knee) These first couple are roughly 18-19 yr old me at around that height but weighing a few stone less than I...

@Nancykitt hope you’re feeling a bit better. At the end of the day you can only do what you can do. It’s fairly common for people with limited facilities or in locations that make consistent work impossible to turn their horses away for the worst of winter and I don’t think many people with no...

I am against and would never go fox hunting but I did go out with a few different bloodhound packs with the orange Welshie. I’d say one pack tended to have better standards of riding and horsemanship than the other (& they were who I mainly chose to go with but they tended to be less local)...

Ah ok, yeah that’s a bigger concern and I can see why it’s worried you as that’s a harder situation to avoid day to day xxx Hope you’re feeling less sore soon

ignore meat to do the below as a reply and I don’t think I have the power to delete my stupidity entirely!

Not 100% clear on your original post but was the food already on the floor when you asked him to step back (ie temptingly within reach and a very guard able resource?). I wouldn’t personally try to move a known resource guarder away from something that I’d just given them. Would you be able to...

I’m currently using calibra as the hooligan’s dry and am happy with it &he also has nature diet wet. I like that a lot of their foods are single source protein (they do still have added fats, as most dry foods do to get the right composition but they do mostly seem to state what the origin...