Recent content by Cheryl22

One golden rule of horse care is to treat horses as individuals... but horses' very design is for movement and keeping them - even in a generously-sized stable/pen - "cooped up" for long periods of time is the aboslute anithesis of everything they are built to do. It can be argued that we have...

Just to get this into context - I have ridden and been around horses for about 40 years - including mad gymkhana type events, a bit of cross country, some hunting, agricultural college equestrian course and even a stint with Chipperfield's Circus (before the animal cruelty) and apart from some...

I wish it was so simple; the owner has now moved out to live with new girlfriend 70 miles away; his 35yo son has charge but is out at work all day (and is very "easy-going") so I am "It" when I am there at the same time as these new people (care delegated to me by son of owner if you know what I...

New poster here - just looking for opinions please... I promise to keep it brief (I hope); I am a fairly experienced horse-owner and have kept my horse on this "yard" - farm, basically - for 13 years. New people have arrived - various family members and three rather bedraggled and slightly...