Recent content by DanceswithCows

Sounds so fun!!

Reckon towing regs knock it on the head for a fair few youngsters too....

I usually ride in wellies - you end up dangled upside down, your foot just slips out. They're smooth and nothing to catch on anything and have a good heel usually.

Never ANY hard feed. Ad lib non-ryegrass, unfertilised, diverse-species hay when no grass, grass must be same. Track system. Access to seaweed minerals, vitamin supplement and salt at all times. Slimmed the fattest equid I've ever seen (a shetland) down to normality without any extra...

I used to be 'unkeen' on TBs due to the stereotypes, but although I agree a high proportion can have trouble with being thin skinned have poor feet, you have to admire their athletic ability, the far reaching effect of their genes and when I finally rode one I found it very comfortable and...

It won't 'ruin' it at your level, but it will wear slightly faster - it's doing more work, and that doesn't come for free ;) I think you'll be fine with a couple of short trips a month though; my car gets absolutely battered, offroading a lot and towing right up to the limit all over the shop -...

That Andy guy does indeed sound like an asset, I'd snap him up! I'm relying on those in the know about exmoor lines to tell me what makes a good mating for mine and we seem to have found a good fairly unrelated match for them this time round. Driving IS great if you are in any way unable to...

Ohgodohgodohgod....cant pick just one?!? I'm really into ponies so most of the natives do it for me, not really connies or NFs tho. (soz) Horses - hackneys. ......also suffolks, CBs, shires, ardennes and i have respect and admiration for TBs and arabs. Like the look of morgans...

I love rare breeds and it was a long held ambition to one day be able to do something about numbers. I assumed it wouldn't happen for a while as I can't afford stables and dedicated land for it all. Thanks to my burgeoning career in conservation grazing however I was able to sneakily fasttrack...

horrific though, very hard to watch :( imagine being born and thats your experience of the world, instant violence and pain and then blipped out again :(

It's an interesting phenomena. (for geeks like me anyway) I'm guessing that it's down to the fact that among the types of equids that build small bands of mares which they 'own' (donkeys own territories rather than individuals for example) the males expend a lot of energy on protecting and...

I didn't realise it was on, but it sounded cool. I don't want to become a judge or owt, but the history of the herd would've been right up my street. On the plus side I made up for it by obtaining an exmoor stallion 8)

hmmm, interessssting. Worst most horrific burning knee pain I've had was after a few hours in a barefoot treeless. I usually ride treeless/long stirruped/no stirrups and never really twigged that it could just be that particular type.

am *very* used to that with the cattle, never thought about it! lol

same! it's incredible!