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I am another who wouldn't sperate - it is simply not worth the risk. The mares are more likely to get upset by things that normally...

Yet again you seem to be getting spectacularly bad advice from a ‘professional’. What experience do they actually have with youngstock...

My family in Denmark have Icelandic, Jutland and Fjord horses as family horses as well as sports horses. They definitely do things a...

Lots of swearing is involved. My EMS horse gets about 6kg of soaked hay overnight, distributed between a small holed hay net and an...

I would have hopped off as well, I know my pony won't go anywhere if I hop off and has never not followed me past something but I know...

I am not an experienced foal owner, but I've definitely put on some 'bad idea jeans' and took the mare away from the foal before he was...

As above, please don’t take unweaned mares away from their foals.

Don't walk the mares out without their foals prior to weaning, that is asking for trouble. The foals could have got injured trying to...

We almost drowned in the warm up but me and Rooni did our first inter 2 together on Sat! I was so poorly and the weather was so so so...

I have one similar and I'm afraid I have to feed him 4 x a day to ward off ulcers. He was on 12kg (vets orders) to get slim. He'd have...

She looks a bit slimmer trimmer

Yes, the theory seems to be working. So we keep at it. It just takes more creativity and frustration when we can't disappear on 3 hour...

Friday was still an ice-fest, but we found the horse crampons (which had gone MIA), so we managed a short hack into the park, then...

Very much dependent on the horse, mullen/straight bar snaffles are considered the 'mildest' as they have a simple action, over few...

Try it if you want to! It's just another skill for you and the horse. I've given a hackamore a go and found it a good training tool for...