Recent content by DizzyDoughnut

Just a random suggestion but could he just be jealous? I know one of mine gets jealous if I'm doing something with one of the others and not him. He remembers this and takes out his jealous rage on them when they return. As far as he's concerned he should be the centre of attention at all times...

I've been prodding around his sheath again this morning and then prodding round the other 3 boys to compare and he does have so much more hair around there than the others. Despite cleaning down there fairly regularly I'd never noticed how much more hair he has than everyone else and for some...

Haha that would be embarrassing but so funny! I don't think mine would get that problem, his field mate would have sniffed it out and eaten it off him!

I had the vet out today because my gelding seemed really irritated with his sheath and it was swollen. He loves getting it washed so I'd throughly cleaned and rinsed it and couldn't see any obvious reason but he was still kicking at it so the vet has been out today sedated and throughly cleaned...

If you ever find a cause please can you let me know. I have a personality transplant cob and I've no idea what is causing it. He's been checked by the vet but typically whenever the vet has been there he's been having a good day so he probably thinks I'm being iver dramatic. I've tried rugging...

Our fields were finally drying out then on Sunday it started raining again and hasn't stopped since. The 4 year old has tweaked his check ligament, he gets rather expolsive and stupid at more than a day stood in so vet said he could go out in a small bit of the field. As soon as he went out he...

Mine would also nibble if he got the chance I think he does it partly because he's cheeky and partly to check I'm paying attention. I just fan my hand about between his head and me as if I'm wafting away flies or something to stop him. If he got ahead of me I'd just ignore him and spin round and...

My young native went through a thuggish phase. I used a rope halter with a long lead rope and if I caught him even starting to think about ploughing off to some tasty grass I'd stop him and back up. I also never just walked along. Even going to the field would be an exercise in manners. So we'd...

I bought a 2 year old but he was cheapish, and I realise I'm probably odd because doing the groundwork is my favourite part and I'm not desperate to ride, I just liked watching him grow up and enjoy himself out in the field. I do think if you can wait another year you would get more interest...

When I got my young pony he went out with my old Welsh pony. They were over the fence from each other to start with and seemed to be getting on well so I put them in together and it was completely uneventful and they got along fine until they'd been together for a couple of days and the young...

I haven't seen these before but I'd like to see how it's constructed inside, how the weight from the stirrups is distributed etc. The website doesn't really have much info on it. Also, on the pricing page of their website they have left in the bit from the website design saying this is a...

I discussed it with the vet after I took him off it for the second time, I wanted to make sure it wasn't a coincidence before I said anything. He did say some horses don't get on with it, but was ok about him not being medicated and basically just said see how we get on. Pony has been absolutely...

This happened with my small elderly Welsh pony. I'd assumed he was just slowing down and getting more sensible with age. Then I ran out of prascend and the difference was amazing he went from wandering around like a little old man to running and playing and being his usual excitable Welsh self...

I'm so sorry to hear that.

Definitely sticking with the extra rugging for now, he's back to his usual lovable self, and has been snuffling happily in my hair tonight while I sit on a bucket to do his weekly feather maintenance, which is far better than last week when I wouldn't have even considered sitting next to him...