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    Caol Ila replied to the thread Final Weekend in November Plans.
    Managed a circa 8k hack yesterday, just about beating the daylight. Planned on a 10k route today that only goes on Sundays at the moment...
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    Caol Ila reacted to Hobo2's post in the thread Brix scale and horses with Like Like.
    Just my experience may be of interest to you. So I bought myself a nice digital refractometer from an agricultural store. So once we...
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    That's probably the first time anyone on the internet has phrased it that way. Does sound like a good set-up. I guess telling people...
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    Caol Ila replied to the thread CDJ withdrawn from paris.
    If you read the sentence you quoted as referring to people rather than horses, it makes your day better.
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    Caol Ila reacted to Cragrat's post in the thread Horse abuse - what should be done? with Like Like.
    It is like FEI dressage judging. If the judges ACTUALLY FOLLWED the guidance set out by the FEI, modern dressage would look very...
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    Caol Ila reacted to mini-eventer's post in the thread They’re home! with Like Like.
    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...
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    Caol Ila reacted to rhino's post in the thread They’re home! with Like Like.
    Yet again you seem to be getting spectacularly bad advice from a ‘professional’. What experience do they actually have with youngstock...
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    Caol Ila reacted to LadyGascoyne's post in the thread They’re home! with Like Like.
    My family in Denmark have Icelandic, Jutland and Fjord horses as family horses as well as sports horses. They definitely do things a...
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    Caol Ila replied to the thread Just how..?.
    Lots of swearing is involved. My EMS horse gets about 6kg of soaked hay overnight, distributed between a small holed hay net and an...
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    Caol Ila reacted to Cloball's post in the thread Spooking on hacks - what to do? with Like Like.
    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...
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    Caol Ila replied to the thread They’re home!.
    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...
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    Caol Ila reacted to TheMule's post in the thread They’re home! with Like Like.
    As above, please don’t take unweaned mares away from their foals.
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    Caol Ila reacted to Tiddlypom's post in the thread They’re home! with Like Like.
    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...
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    Caol Ila reacted to nikkimariet's post in the thread 3rd weekend in November plans with Like Like.
    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...
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