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Thank You NoisyGirl We've also started to bring in long warm ups and cool downs, my daughter out with her today and just called me to say she's going balooba in the field :rolleyes: Think we need to tell her about her warm ups and cool downs too!!!!! Advise greatly appreciated :)

Hi I rescued a little mare who was part Anglo Arab, very bloody, hot little mare, she was very backwards in condition when I got her and a friend recommended Baileys cooked cereal meal, I don't know if you can get this particular product but if you look at it online you can look at the...

Had this recommendation too and going to start including this in the feed as well, We will crack this!!!! :D

Thanks everyone, I've looked at your feedback and last night we changed her to hay instead of haylage, she's not a happy camper as she's in paddock next to the others and looks very put out by it all!!!! But all for the better cause!! Vets gave us Dantrium (muscle relaxant) yesterday so going...

Thank you East Kent, could be a definate consideration for reason, they would have been on the haylage 3 weeks by the time of her first tie up. We didn't have a great summer and I was told the haylage was not the same quality and slightly different to other years as we had a late cut. We're...

Yup poor thing is right :( It's a horrible experience for her you can clearly see she's in pain. She is being fed Bluegrass Resolve, she's only fed half her recommended which is half a scoop per day. In the 2 weeks prior to last tie up she was only fed every second day as she was full of...

She was just hacking for fitness, some schooling in the weeks before and a couple of showjumping lessons. Both times when she tied up she had only walked a few yards up the road on a hack when her back end seized and she was dripping (literally) in sweat.

Hi Guys, I hope I get this right it's my first time using this forum. Anyone have any experience with Tying up????? We have a 15.2 lightweight cob strong hardy mare, 5 years old. I've been told by vets and others that it is very unusual for her type to tie up. I have her nearly 2 years...