Recent content by EchoDream

Hello :) I know I should have finished this off and said a final thanks to everyone, but I haven't had the heart - Thomas got better, completely back to normal, but Boston got a secondary infection and we had to have him put down, his kidneys were packing in. We've not had a repeat, and it...

I find baby oil first squirted up there with a syringe and rubbed round, then more on the sides gets all the smegma to drop off in its own time. I know this isn't helpful if there's a bean, but if there's just a lot of smegma produced, it's a fairly quick and easy way of doing it :) Hope you get...

These two sweated after vet had left, actually, so maybe it was the penicillin? Thank you fatpiggy! The other horses are still fine, and the throughbred is better, he was cantering roung the paddock today, but Boston got much worse suddenly, the vet came, and his kidneys are packing in! He's...

Thank you so much for replying, it's so helpful to know other people have been there! I've been working today, and the thoroughbred is much better, grumpy as usual, lol, but my mum's little cob still isn't very happy. He nibbles at his hay and feed, he's just so tired. I think he'd have gone...

Hi, um ... I'm just so worried, and the vet is stumped!! I work on a small yard, where we have a couple of DIY liveries; my mum has a little irish cob and one of the liveries owns a 10yro thoroughbred, both geldings. The thoroughbred suddenly became very quiet last saturday, and by Tuesday we...