Recent content by Gloi

My pony loved swinging on tail flaps and pulling them off and I kept having to fork out on having them mended. Fortunately he seems to have grown out of it. 🤞

I knackered my ankles walking round uneven fields poo picking, repeatedly spraining them and never having the chance to let them recover properly as I needed to keep poo picking. They are still not right 15 years later and I make sure I'm at livery somewhere I don't need to poo pick.

Done. I competed affiliated 30+ years ago so I put that but have not competed for a long time.

Do let us know what the vet says if it gets xrayed, I'm interested.

:D Those pics are from 85. This is how not to jump the cross country 😜 taking off at least one stride too soon.

It's at the FPS performance trials at Rydal, near Ambleside

Me too. Almost always inside of front legs and usually outside of hind. Unless he moves in a peculiar way putting abnormal strain on himself I would suspect he has been injured, maybe kicked there. It looks massive, I would get it x rayed if it is growing, and I'm not one to get the vet...

I always remember being at my friends who had two large ginger cats. One constantly hunted rabbits and left the ears and tails in the porch. I spotted him one day resting on the clothes in the laundry basket. He woke up, leaned over the side and accurately threw up half digested rabbit directly...

Can't go wrong with a black Fell 😃

I wouldn't do it. 6 miles is our "round the block" hack. It might be an option to split it and have a walk and trot only ride so it was suitable for lead rein or youngsters without the worry of someone flying past, then a ride for others.

Try rubbing plenty of neem oil on the legs. Do a test patch first. Repeat weekly until things improve.

Nearly always. I tend to look round breeders and buy youngsters. Current pony is a bit different in that I was after a new Icelandic but didn't want to spend much and I was taken by his cute foal picture on Facebook.

I've known two plus the crossbred offspring of one of those, just drop dead.

Far too many health problems for my liking.

Go to one of the shows and see what is expected. There is likely to be a novice class at a height he'll manage.