Recent content by esp1

thanks for all the replies, i work at a vets so i am very careful about overfeeding in general as i know it can cause huge problems not least laminitis which is what im trying to avoid! i have made sure the quantitys of everything are pony sized and not the same as what i'd give my big boy so i...

we pay a pound per horse per day but the bloke lives on site so its not like he has to use petrol getting there or anything!!! is there someone who is normally at the yard around lunchtime that would be willing to do it? if the three of you gave them even a pound each every weekday then it would...

toggi ottowa jodhpur boots with gibbons suede chaps... i could wear them all day everyday they are well comfy!

12 weeks ago we acquired a super skinny section A 3yo gelding, he came from a home with no grazing (2 acres between 10 sec a/b's plus one tb!), he was being fed rotten haylage with a few pony nuts sprinkled on it in the mornings.... needless to say he was skin and bone so we bought him out of...

was just thinking that the mouthpiece on the happy mouth i used for a few months was considerably thinner than that of my normal gag so it could of been that the made the difference!!!

at your horse live last year i completely overhauled my horses feed regime, the feed stands there are so helpful and will give you samples of just about anything (if they dont have it with you they'll send it to you!). the dengie stall was particularly helpful and was recommending nuts/mixes...

a short girl at my yard has the kid ones in a size 5, shes 25 but about 4'10" so they are in proportion and look good, they'd look a little silly on me i think even thou im only 5'5" they are alot shorter than the standard ones!

i ride my welsh cob in a two ring dutch gag on the lowest ring, he used to be forever fiddling with his bit so i switched to a happy mouth 2 ring dutch gag, which worked a treat, but then a couple of months on i realised it had teeth marks on it and was getting sharp bits, so i switched back to...

i had my boy marked under saddle a few years back after a thief scare! a few at our yard were done but unfortunately the mark on both my boy and my friends arab didnt develop properly (the letter D on both the horses looked like backwards C's!) so the woman came back out a couple of months later...

i have the mark todd fleece one, i only use it when he's clipped and only for hacking... its pretty good cos it never seems to move at all, even when bombing it through the fields! I do also have a fluorescent netting one which i either use on its own or i put it over the mark todd one if the...

i was thinking of doing some veteran classes with my sec D (he's 15 now but will be 16 by the time i get round to doing it!). Showing has never really interested me but we've just acquired a 3yo sec A so we wanted to get him out and about next year so i thought that the big boy could keep him...

Hi everyone, i've read about a zillion forum entries about towing and im still seriously confused! basically i'd like to know the MAM of the old rice single horse trailers (the ones that look like a shed on wheels!)? and also whether i can legally tow one with a 06 plate mondeo estate 2.0L...

I work at a vets also and although we try not to send follow on bills out, sometimes its unavoidable..... we have a new rule that we will only send them out if it is within a calender month of the treatment... this is due to the number of complaints we received from unhappy clients! If i were...