Recent content by clevergirl

Yes, I paid for half of the up-front purchase. Then paid full delivery fee, stable mats, gravel, gutters, slip rails and hardware myself. And of course the labor to build- her boyfriend came out to help for about 4 hrs x 2 days, but we spent a full weekend from about 10am-5pm on the roofing and...

For essentially half of a used 12x24 field shelter? A friend of mine each contributed about £1000 to the purchase, and my husband and I did 80% of the erection/assembly work, plus provided flooring and gutters. Friend has moved her horse to a new livery closer to home for a few reasons (our...

I know the slaughtered horses cannot enter the human food chain... but what about pet food and meat for zoo animals? Or is that currently the done thing anyway?

Aloe vera juice is a great stomach soother- we used it all the time in the US (granted, it was cheaper there). Put one cup in feed 1x per day for those on maintenance. When my horse was being treated for ulcers, I also added a cup to alfalfa pellets pre-ride and she was much more comfortable...

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/K95PMJ2 I'll start out by saying I miss an American company called SmartPak - it's become the cornerstone of large livery facilities all over the US. I think they run their business very well with great logistics and customer engagement and serving as a...

I love my horse and I have come to believe that steel shoes are not great for their long term health... However for high impact sports such as jumping and hunting, I feel like my horse may need a little more support. My horse is on a great barefoot friendly diet, but even two years after...

So I bought some land, and a friend of mine was very keen to move his horse off the livery yard we met at. I thought "great, my horse will have a friend and I won't have to buy him a pony!" so we worked out a small fee for me to do AM feeding and kind of treat it like an assisted livery...