Recent content by Brady1

My mare has had a happy mouth snaffle forever as far as i know as she goes mental as soon as you try a metal bit. She has always gone beautifully in it and as she has never had anything hard enough her mouth is still very soft. She is now 21 and has several thousand pounds worth of BSJA winnings...

It is illegal to use the rubber band method on lambs after 7 days of age, partly due to the lack of analgesia. Not that it isn't painful before that! So i guess it would be illegal to do so in horses?!

I am a vet and it is illegal for any one who is not a fully qualified vet to elevate gingiva (gum), unless under constant supervision of a vet. and in order to extract a tooth you have to elevate gingiva. EDTs know this, but many do anyway, illegally. The problems arise when they hit the...