Recent content by Ellen Durow

I can't tell you, categorically, what you should and shouldn't do. However, personally, I wouldn't invest in second horse until you have sorted out your relationship with this one. You haven't had him long enough to establish a trusting relationship which works both ways. Three or four months...

No, my horse would happily live out alone or in a crowd. I just think that it's a common sense safety issue. There may be new/inexperienced owners on the yard who don't know which horses are safe to be left out and there may be horses who panic when left alone. Dark field, lone frightened horse...

Umm, I went up to the yard to do evening stables. Tidied his bed, put feed and water and hay for the night in his loose box. Made up the following day's feeds and nets and tidied up in the feed room. Tidied my tack area. Went back to his stable and went through my usual check list - bed, hay...

If there isn't a rule there should be! I'm confused here. If the other owner works late and is last to bring her horse in because everyone has done their horses and gone home, how is she bringing your horse in?

I have moved house and my belongings have been in store for some time. I seem to have lost the file with all my horse's documentation in it including his passport and I can't remember which company I used to obtain the original about 12 years ago. The original came in a clear plastic folder and...

After 50 years driving and may of those towing trailers and caravans, I would not recommend an automatic for towing. LR Discoveries are more comfortable and car-like but are as good as Defenders for towing horse trailers and (in my part of the country) are not stolen so often. When my...

Questions like this are one of the reasons we employ farriers. Ask him/her! "Huge " cracks requiring remedial shoeing rarely appear "literally overnight" (ie within in 12 hours, if that's what you actually mean), unless there has been some catastrophic accidental damage EDIT: Ah-ha. Just read...

A qualified Health and Safety rep, formerly employed in that capacity by a large international company asks - Why do H&S issues prevent you soaking hay? As for weight issues, have you considered feeding them less?

Absolutely not - to both questions. Your horse could slip and incur serious injuries - might even have to be put down. Do you want that?

No use asking us for a legal opinion (unless any of the respondents are lawyers). Consult Citizens Advice or your legal representative if you think there is an issue you feel is worth incurring a bill. CAB will sometimes write to your YO if they feel there is the matter warrants it.

Unless there is a definite cruelty issue, in which case you should report it to WHW or similar, then I don't think there is anything you can do. (The girl and her parents wouldn't listen to you anyway.)

"ONLY £20"!! That's a couple of bags of feed or stable rent for a week!

-If you haven't used it in the last 12 months get rid of it -If you don't like it, get rid of it -If it doesn't fit your horse and is never likely to, get rid of it. (You have no idea if, when or what type of horse you'll have in future) -If it's in poor condition throw it away. -If it fits a...

Two acres is really only suitable for one horse/pony as you would need to section it off (eg with electric fencing) so you could rotate the grazing area. This is important even if grazing is part-time and combined with stabling. Even one horse can make a dog's dinner of a pasture in bad weather...

And very uncomfortable to ride with