Thank you, I do appreciate he doesn't understand and I don't get angry with him because I do understand he's not being naughty, he just simply doesn't get it :)
Unfortunately he is amazingly uninterested in food and to be honest I am quite happy with that as the first few days I got him he...
Sorry I am on my phone so can't quote but thank you all very much for your advice :)
Some very interesting ideas, especially the one about running my hand from his ear along his back, I will try this. And having someone 'helping' balance him, I am sure this is a big part of it for him...
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*looks around a little scared and ready to duck and scuttle out*
I have recently bought a 4 year old who was unhandled, everything else he has learnt incredibly quickly and is almost 100% with fantastic manners. However, at 17.1hh and never had his feet picked out it is not fun...
I had a very embarrassing 'Fenton' experience in front of a group if elderly ramblers, they were not amused :p
Ruby has also killed a chicken at the yard (I hid the corpse and blames the fox :p)
She regularly eats my knickers and when I think I've collected them all she will present a pair to...
Wow!!! I was a regular poster a few years ago and I remember PF being in foal and following your posts, last time I saw him he was a teeny foal!!! He is absolutely stunning, you must be very proud of him :)
I often play with my mine in the school, I have just bought an unhandled (but very friendly) 4year old so I am keeping him on a line for now but my old horse (who was PTS in June -the ginge in my sig!) I always used to loose school her. Like you say, it's a good way to have fun together.
Would...
LondonDerry Farm in Nutley is a lovely yard, fairly big in terms of a lot of liveries but very friendly. Excellent hacking direct into the Ashdown Forest.
Faircote stud as suggested above.... But there are three seperate yards there.... I would 'suggest' Equus Livery (Alex Chapman) above the...
How frustrating. I wish I could help but I cruelly let mine sort herself out :p it was my little palomino pony, when we first got her she was a cowbag to catch and my dad and I spent 3 hours in that field one night, we tried everything and for once we both thought 'screw her' so we left her in...