Recent content by condylem

any tips on reaering - the vets didn't want toknow and I have left a message for the sanctuary - I am keeping it warm and have bought some chick crumbs to mix with water

its really lively!!

ok vets it is then, I'll pop him in shortly.

will anyone take a pigeon? or are they vermin

oh yes that makes sense - they are big arn't they!

The cat brought a bird in today - obviously taken from the nest, no feathers yet, they are just beginning to sprout. Quite big - about 5 inches with a long neck and big beak which gets wider in the middle with a white tip. Sorry rubbish pic but I didn't want to get him out. and finally...

Im still waiting for my bit but my bridle arrived this week so I am still hopeful..........

She is lovely. Yes I think your right it probably would be best to sell it was the issue of someone making a mess of backing her that made me think twice more than anything.

I have a lovely mare fresian x Tb 15.2 who I just don't have time for. She is an unbroken 4 year old who has had tack on and been lunged. I hae no one to help with her and feel she needs to get on and do. I have no plans to have her back at any point, I ended up with her by accident...

did you ever resolve it?

Thank you for all of the responses. I have changed her bit to a happy mouth straight bar which she seems happier in. She hacks out alone fine and is very trusting under saddle generally, very forward going and responsive although after the school incident she did jog through the village...

Yes I think your right - I will try a synthetic straightbar. It's just that I have no problems whatsoever out hacking with her - she really is lovely, (bar the intemittant ear shaking thing she does) but is a really forward hack.

she walks lovely on a hack. Strange mare. I'm hoping for great things from her but don't think there is a test where you have to reverse a whole long side!!

she's only on grass - I don't feed until I have too :0)

She had her teeth done 3 weeks ago nearly - yes I trust the technician. She is in a NS snaffle. Cavesson noseband, no martingale. she did it before I backed her (whnen long reining too. The dentist did say she had a tight jaw - I wondered if this might be making her tight through her...