Recent content by Burnttoast

Yikes. In a year or two, when the poor thing breaks properly, no one will be revisiting this unfortunate demonstration.

We have a lot of glacial drift in my bit of Norfolk which can return some very weird analyses, sometimes quite different over a short distance because of flood plains, gravel lenses, etc. At one place forageplus retested a sample I sent because it seemed implausible. It was so high in iodine it...

To ensure no contamination of the pill pocket itself I've found the best way is to tip the pill onto a surface without touching it, wash hands (in case), squash pocket into a flat disc, press it down onto pill so it picks it up and then form it around the pill carefully. Crazy I know. Pill must...

If I crush practically any pill and try to hide it in food she just sits in the middle of the kitchen staring at me like I've lost my mind. She won't even approach the bowl 🤣 they just know, apparently!

Pill pockets might work, particularly if rolled in a bit of Lick-e-lix and incorporated into a small meal. Hang around and check it's gone. (this is the method we use for daily steroids for our 'please don't touch me or feed me anything weird' girl)...

"Short reins win medals". She is into winning, that's it. I suspect Carl does quite like horses and that when she teamed up with him she recognised the immense PR benefits of appearing to like horses too, but I think the truth is that they're nothing more than vehicles to her. ETA she isn't...

Just makes me cringe at what horror will be coming up in the next ten seconds. Will not be surprised when one of these poor horses forgets it has legs at all and just goes splat.

Powerful people generally railroading over the voices of others, whether animals, children or the vulnerable, seems to be a real theme atm. I'm becoming quite happy to lump them all together as people we don't need.

Another horse that doesn't know what to do with its legs anymore. https://www.facebook.com/reel/2154080762018026/?app=fbl

When we got our land I put in a hardstanding yard 8x20m with a shelter. It opens onto the (grass) track or the grazing in the middle (4 small fields) so they always have access to it. Over the next few years I had all the gateways hardcored or put mud slabs down, and had a hardstanding walk...

Same here :)

While presumably taking advantage of the emptiness/total unbusyness of the road to berate you? How bizarre are some people!?

Mine is a Norfolk cat so he has no excuses whatsoever for coming in looking like he's been in the pond :oops: I towelled off his undercarriage yesterday and it was mostly mud.

The most successful yard (GB team eventing) I worked on fed a base diet of homemade chaff (2/3 hay 1/3 straw), grass nuts and sugar beet (and salt) to everything on the yard, topped up if necessary with oats or a competition mix. It worked for them. This was when commercial feeds were just...

Mmmm, very satisfying photo dump 😊