Recent content by BronsonNutter

If you're having x-rays it may be worth seeing if the seller would transport the horse to the vets of your choice, you generally get 'better' quality xrays in a clinic setting plus the guarantee of good surfaces (hard and soft) to examine the horse from a lameness perspective. Rainbow (Malton)...

Usually you go through the veterinary practice that performed the vetting to organise; I'm not sure if the lab deals with owners directly. The 'code' for the bloods taken may well be on your vetting certificate, and if it isn't the practuce who performed the vetting should have a copy of it...

A lady I used to ride for has underfloor heating in her tack room (to help dry wet tack etc) and all the cupboards etc are painted with Farrow & Ball. Wooden saddle racks built into the wall (none of those pipe-like ones that leave indents in your tack). I could have happily lived in that tack...

My old guy who has an arthritic neck carries his lower when it’s a bit sore - guess it depends on the horse and which bit of neck hurts! So worth considering.

Another plus point of a TB over a more native/shorter/wider type is that if you are not riding them very much (or at all) they are much less likely to get fat, or worse, laminitic. Mine is a lovely pet (he is still lightly hacking but it depends on his joints) - very polite, loves treats, easy...

The issue with this is large animal vets don't necessarily work the same rotas as the small animal staff... They may have someone on early shift (e.g. 8-4pm) and then a different vet on late shift (e.g. 10am-7pm) and maybe more somewhere in the middle. They also may not be expected to be on...

I’d also imagine there’s the convenience of when you can collect it too - no one wants a dead horse lying around in their stable yard (understandably!!), so they often need collecting ASAP, whether it works well logistically or not. Whereas farmers are happy for you to swing by and pick up a few...

He's not got a forehead, he's got a fivehead! However he has got decent nostrils so better than a lot of brachycephalic breeds so...

I'm in west yorkshire and currently don't have a rideable horse - if you are very stuck and want to PM me with whereabouts you are there is the potential I could help occasionally.

Sooner rather than later is better for these, to try and minimise spread to the other structures around the eyeball. It's a relatively minor op - despite looking a bit scary with where it is! - generally performed under local anaesthetic and sedation. Occasionally you can get a bit of fat...

They aren't all corporate - but quite a lot are and it isn't necessarily obvious if they are or aren't - this lack of transparency is one of the things brought up by the CMA. If you go on your vets website it should say at the bottom as to if they are owned by a corporate (e.g. IVC, CVS...

The problem with prescriptions in a practical sense is they actually take longer to write, print out, sign, scan back in and email to a pharmacy (we're not *supposed* to give them to the client - and we have had several attempt to fraudulently edit theirs, so try to send to the pharmacy where...

Will he follow another? Not much help otherwise to advise, usually it's the other way round with the ex-hurdlers and they're too keen for XC!

To be honest, the majority of draft breeds are likely to have some form of joint changes. If you are definitely after a shire and he is nice otherwise, I'd consider the risk - after a thorough conversation with an orthopaedic vet who has seen the xrays - there are bone chips where you'd be happy...

^ This is the way I generally do it. A lot of times it may well be with just me holding the horse and the owner outside the stable, as 1) if they're really bad/explosive to inject then I only have my own safety to be concerned about, not the owners, 2) some horses seem to find that less...