Recent content by genandtom

Thank you all for your help and advice, which I think I already knew but just needed a nudge. As much as I feel sorry for both foal and mum I cannot take on something that potentially could cost me alot more than the £800 asking price! I have alot to learn as do clearly the owners of the...

Would anyone buy a foal where the mother is chronically lame, arab mare with very long pasterns, swollen fetlock on off hind, aged 5yrs, unbroken and this is third foal. Foal is lovely, passed vet but does have slightly upright hooves plus a few other observations which vet says are not likely...

No need to rant at the lucky lady who has no mud she was only tellin us. The other quotes are funny, I can relate to them all especially the lady who carries a bale of hay to save time, I wish i could carry one under each arm, but i think i might sink

Thank you so much for your advice, I am about 5'4" and im sure will look ridiculous on her bless her but its difficult to know who is best to ride her away because surely its too tricky for children and i want her to have good manners and be safe for children and go to a loving home eventually...

I have a rising 3 dartmoor pony which i am breaking, she has been lunged and longreined, she is very sensible and is ready to be backed, the lady at the yard where i keep her says i should ride her, i am about 12st and the pony is 12.2, she says the pony is fine to take heavy weights as they are...

Hi, thats really interesting, ive noticed the young horses at the yard where i keep my horses do this when lunged, their back legs seem to click, so is it just because they arent used to work and need to build up their muscles?

Hi does anyone have experience of windgalls causing annular ligament disease, my 17yr old cob has just been diagnosed with it, he is on bute twice a day, walking for 20 - 40 mins daily (I can ride him in walk) he can live out, but no excitement, no breaking out of walk for 2 wks, then the vet...