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    Clay balls in feathers - is there a trick to removing them please?

    I use a pair of nutcrackers to break them up
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    best buckets for horses who tip the darned things over....

    My three youngsters were just the same flooded floors and beds most mornings. I had builders in doing some work at home and he had some left over concrete. So I placed some plastic in the bottom of each trug bucket and then he poured in the concrete making a reasonable slab at the bottom of...
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    Cat on kitchen work surface

    I don’t like the cats of which we have 4 being on tables of work surfaces so we have a plant water sprayer set on straight jet. Our two new kittens (Darth and Vader both black and very naughty) are learning that if they are caught on the surface they stand to get wet. The first couple of times...
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    Secret Santa Special Surprise!!

    WOW what a great thread. Happy Christmas FM Hope you have a good Christmas and that 2017 is a better year for you.
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    Early Christmas present

    I am over the moon. I got a new horse some months ago and have been waiting for her saddle to arrive. Today it did oh my word it is so diffrent to the old saddle. Completely different like Beetle to RollsRoyce. The horse has not been ridden since arriving but has been on the lunge and out in...
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    PTS Tomorrow and Frightened That I will regret It!?

    I did not want to read and not offer you a mega hug ((((()))) I have just been through the should I or not with my old boy. I to nearly pulled out right up to the day. But I am glad that I have done it. He was not put through all the wet and mud that we now have. I was lucky the weather was...
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    Help Please electric fencing problems

    Hi can anyone point me in the direction for a secure storage idea for mine. Some nice sod has trashed mine by cutting the wires to the battery and then if that was not good enough they then put a screwdriver or nail into the connector pushing it in so that I can put in a replacement cable...
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    Coming here for a little bit of support - Today's the day PTS :(

    I could not read and say have a hug or two. Having only just one the same thing with my lovely grey. You know you are doing the kindest thing you can. Something we can do for our animals. Gallop free big feller as you go over the rainbow bridge. (((())))'s to you OP
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    Cantering on grass verges

    Round here people do in one place it is a very wide verge. Personally I don't as I worry about the rubbish and rabbit holes. Everyone can make there own choice and for me I choose not too.
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    choosing a buyer

    Gosh I am glad the lovely lady who I have just bought my girl from was not judgemental. I felt like I rode like a sack of potatoes. I wanted a happy little chunky to take me round and may be the odd low leavel dressage in time. My girl only 6 and I am mid 50's. The owner was not really going to...
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    what's your Christmas dream gifts this year?

    Christmas dream sell all horses bar the new one that should be arriving next week. Gift would be a saddle for the new horse that fits both of us
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    Riding after a hysterectomy

    Good luck I went into theatre thinking I was having keyhole woke up with keyhole attempt and full as well. I went for my 6 week check up and he was not happy for me to return to stable duties and had to have 12 weeks off. Even after 12 weeks certain lifts were tender. I was told by the...
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    Chickens or Ducks?!?!?!

    Stay with hens is my veiw. Unless you have a pond we did not and the mess they made was unbelievable in such a short time turned the pen area into a muddy smelly area. Our hen area is next to the house and in an area is sheltered but oh boy how in a week they got the area into such a mess was...
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    Ireland B&B’s between Dublin and Galway HELP Please

    Thank you I am a returning customer of Oliver's. My big feller came from him 12 years ago he went to sleep yesterday.
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    Ireland B&B’s between Dublin and Galway HELP Please

    Looking for two rooms between the two places any nice ones to look for please night of the 28th Sept. Thank you lovely lot. We have been given 3 yards and 4 private sellers to look at while we are over. Also going to go to Cavan horse sale on the 29th and on the way back to airport...
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