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Looking for full livery or assisted livery yard for 3 horses in the North Somerset area, so Langford, nailsea, and surrounding areas...would be great to get an idea of what's available locally.

Vets have advised my mare has a large cyst on right iris, which they believe causes a blind spot, she's a very spooky mare. Off to eye specialist vets tomorrow to confirm this and possibly have it lasered. Does anyone have any experience of this? What's the general recovery time etc. ? Any help...

thanks thats brilliant, makes it a really cheap way to try out eventing!

can somebody tell me how be80 works? i'd like to do these next year. Do you have to pay the full membership fee of £135 then buy the BE80 training tickets, or do you have to buy a day ticket and a BE80 ticket? never evented before so slightly confused. thanks!

Thx, think i will go with Saracen!

Hoping to event next year, live in north somerset, any recommendations on a nice starter event at the beginning of the season?

Fab that there's going to be a new local venue, I think they said hoping to be open in the spring, anyone have anymore info?

Thx, how much c&c do you feed?

I started my mare on nupa when she went out to spring grass, somebody had mentioned the grass could be calcium deficient an therefore so could she, so we started the nupa..I noticed a difference within a week but some can take longer. Nupa are extremely helpful on the phone if it doesn't appear...

Thanks will have a look into both!

My horse tied up back in march and I was advised to change her feed from the conditioning cubes/sugar beet/chaff diet she was on as high in carbs and could have contribute to tying up although I think she just got herself in such a tizz over something very silly (another story). As we were...

Thanks so much for your reply box of frogs! Really helpful. Ive noticed his wee was cloudy today so I am changing his feed ASAP. he has gone onto spring grass now, and I would like him out as much as possible to aid his breathing so we will see how he gets on. He just feels very sluggish...

Here goes...my first thread! My 8 yr old TB has COPD but also has previously had liver problems (i didn't find any of this out until after I bought him, he was sold to me while on loan to this person...thats another story) I found all of this out from his actual owner. The breathing/COPD...