Recent content by fairdown

Hi there guys.... wonder if u can help my horse had been coughing while warming up during exercise and had a runny nose, but other than that been her usual self and not lethargic or anything so i got the vet out to check her over today, she has a slight temperature .... its one and a half...

hi there, We have a 29yr old pony who has had cushings for the past 5years, he has coped remarkably well and we managed this well for this time, however since July he took his first bout of Laminitis, this is now his 5th bout and he just doesnt seem to be coming out of it this time. we are...

i have a trailer and jeep and am out most weekends with my 2 horses competing, im looking in2 getting a little lorry and was just wondering what your views were on the running costs etc, the lorry im looking at needs taxed and tested and i dont know the 1st thing about this its a 3 horse non-hgv...

thanks folks!! great advice

i have a horse like thgis, she used yo be skinny and i think its like ppl some of them just naturally have a higher metabolism the problem with my horse is that i wanted to show and wh her so she needed weight on, what put weight on and maintains my horses weight is baileys no1 cereal meal...

just got a new skewbald cob, all my other horses are bay so are very easy 2 clean up- whats your best tips on how to get her white bits white and her bay bits sparkling?!! thanks!

hi there im having increasing problems with flatwork on my 5yr old show/wh mare- i think it may be 2 do with the menage im riding her in at our livery yard- i think i find it harder to ride in it and its harder for her 2 push out- we always ride so much better when we are up at lessons or...

any suggestions on what i could feed my old timer? he's 14hh and 26yrs old and had a bout of laminitis last year but is over that for the meantime, i hav him on happy hoof and speedibeet which is good for laminitics but his coat is horrendously dry and itchy, can anyone suggest any supplements...

hi there!! well my 4yr old mare is extremly sweet and has always been easy to do, from halter breaking to backing, since being broken she is seemingly terribly intelligent and picking things up very quickly, she is also the bravest horse i have ever had the pleasure of knowing, she has never...

we had a show horse which was like this last season we fed him a supplement called steady up which helped enormously at dublin horse show last year he was a lunatic, and the only thing that helped, was he was ridden two or three times a day and by the time it came to his class he was very very...

i have a 4yr old mare, she was sent away to be backed last year and came back like a greyhound, poverty lines etc, she has put on a good bit of weight since she came home but was over at my instructers today for a lesson he also shows and comparing my 3yr old to his, my goodness you could fit 2...

hello there, i'm from N.ireland, i own a 4yr old cult hero mare, my friend who we stable together also sold her 3yr old cult hero filly to england last year, and she has the full brother to my mare, he <font color="red"> </font> <font color="red"> </font> is 5yr old now, was just wondering...