Recent content by caro72

Just to update...after much wrangling I have him back. I feel very lucky indeed, it was such a mistake to let him go in the first place, and could have ended very differently. I ended up hiring a wagon, driving the 100 miles or so there with the cash, and she agreed it was best for him to come...

Thank you for your replies. It does rankle to have to buy my own horse back, but I can't bear to think of him being passed around, particularly as he can be a handful, and she seems a very unconfident rider. He's already been rescued from the meat wagon, I just want to make sure he doesn't end...

Good thinking, thank you. I will try. She lives some distance from me, but worth the trip

I have - she keeps changing her mind about selling him.

Hello, I'd really like some advice on this. I gifted my horse to a woman I know about a year ago, due to going through divorce etc etc. I have kept in touch with her, and she loaned him to a friend of hers, then sold him, without my knowledge and assurances he would stay with her. My mistake for...

Does anyone have any tips on this? My horse is a fresian hackney x, which makes for a lovely horse, but one who has an incredibly bouncy trot (and canter for that matter)! His previous owner used him for driving, so we've spent time slowing down an incredibly fast trot, and working on trot...

That's good to hear! I hope I'm worrying about nothing

Thank you, he is very sweet. He's not too bothered about the others in the herd - his one pal in the field was killed in a road accident last year, he's been a bit lost since then :(

We've just started out with chucks, the most entertaining and friendly of our brood is a gingernut ranger - a hybrid I think - very friendly and cheeky, and a good layer too...but not as good as the adopted duck we have - so many eggs I don't know what to do with em!

Hoping this link to a pic of him works, me and technology are not best mates!

Thank you Mackenzie6, its so good to hear other people's experiences, especially with such a lovely outcome for your pony. There are so many awful cases out there, I just dont understand how people can treat horses (or any animal) this way. He is lovely, so gentle I can let my kids feed him etc...

thanks, will try

https://uk-mg42.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=2_0_0_1_1190465_AJgo5C4AABBmUw%2B2TgAAAK%2F%2Bn8I&pid=2&fid=Inbox&inline=1 nother pic

https://uk-mg42.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=2_0_0_1_1191272_AJgo5C4AABAJUw%2B3LgAAACfg6tE&pid=2&fid=Inbox&inline=1 hoping this link to a pic of him will work! Re worming, yes, all the yard horses are on a rigorous programme, asked vet to look him over/ give advice on feed...youngstock mix...

I do, but posting them might be a challenge - will try! I'm just hoping he's normal and laid back, he's known on the yard as the 'dope on a rope', but he just seems too too quiet to me!