Recent content by eventer28

A really lovely sort!!

Which foaling alarms do you recommend? My Irish draft mare is due to foal the end of May and I’m trying to get prepared.

My Irish sport mare by Balcormo Sir Rocco is in foal to Zandio O (Indoctro, Burgraaff) and is due the end of March. I'm still hacking her and light schooling. .

I had a mare that didn't show in heat! The vets said she had a persistent corpus luteum which secretes progesterone and stopped the mare coming into heat. We PG'd her and bingo, she caught first time!

Thanks cundlegreen. A foal by her own father - oh no! A good blood type could work but as I'm breeding to keep I need something that would eventually carry 14stone. Any suggestions?

My mare is a 5yo, 16.1hh, Irish sport horse, who's dam is a 14.1hh pony (welsh/arab/connie) and her sire is a 16.3hh Irish Draft. I'm considering breeding a foal from her to keep for myself, planning to select a stallion with tall genetics but I have thought it is possible that she might produce...

Yes the manual has increased TC (2500kg) compared to the auto (2000). The terrible rust on the chassis and the poor mpg really put me off the older ones.

I'm Confused - The newer ones with a 2.2 diesel engine have more poke than the older (2007) models! By poke do you mean brake horsepower and torque? Newer - 2.2 diesel engine have 194 bhp with 322lb ft of pull from 2000rpm Older - 2.5 diesel has only 168 bhp with 289lb ft of torque from 200rpm

Hello, Thinking of buying a 2015 Kia Sorento 2.2 CRDI with a braked towing capacity (TC) of 2500kg to tow my ifor 505 (1,000 kg) and two 16hh Irish sport horses (1,100 kg). Does anyone have one for towing? I used to have an old (2004) Sorento 2.5CRDI with a braked TC of I think 2800 kg that was...

I’m in Royton above Oldham

I want to box-up and take my horse for a ride somewhere in and around the Manchester area this weekend. I have checked the equestrian diary for pleasure/farm rides but don't seem to be able to find one without driving too far. I have been to Summerford Park and Daisy Nook country park - Any...

Yes I phoned him as soon as I saw that she was sore.

Yes the farrier came back the next day to check her and he suggested the angle changes

It's rather strange that it offends you that she brings her husband and son with her every evening? Do you only allow females on your property?

I bought a lovely 4yo, 16hh Irish draft x connie/arab mare last week. She was slightly underweight and had overgrown feet - farrier said she probably hadn't been trimmed for 6 months, feet were long with flares and small crack in front hoof. Farrier trotted her up before the trim - he then...