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I would try tincture of valerian.

Enjoy yourselves

I would definitely do this . PSD can make horses show all of strange symptoms and l would guess the steroid has changed the feel of the lameness because the OA symptoms are being controlled.

The full Black Beauty ending lucky lucky boy .

It is of course less than ideal . Bad weather is less than ideal . Many years ago we got heavy and long lasting snow my horses went out just for the time we took to muck out and do the yard for weeks . It was an awful time but the horses were fine . If your horse suffered a bout of nasty mud...

Here it’s the worse wet we have had . We have had three weeks of weather coming straight off the eat coast and that is very unusual It’s miserable, I am looking forward to livery when I leave here .

So glad your friend is coming home . They will be so happy to see each other. She does need to address it It was an issue with Dram at one point not as bad as you describe . My rules don’t allow the sit outside the loo type of behaviour send the dog to it bed teach it to stay. When leaving...

poor boy , poor owner and poor you . The only think I can think of is that you try one of those calming collars or a plug in one or both . I think you just have roll with it as best you can. You are a good friend .

It is a Classic presentation of bilateral front foot pain

Mine are on a grain free kibble ( Canagan ) they get some bread most days usually my toast.

This is a bad year very low yields overall and now a very wet winter

My first pony a Shetland was an escapologist on one of his little adventures he went to friends house which had stable behind it he ate most of a bag of pony cubes . The vet was called and I had lead him about for what to me seemed like hours and my mum gave him water every hour . He was fine...

I don’t think they fit as big as they used to .

I would get the legs clean and dry Then I would apply Cuvestrequin it’s a fiddle to apply you need it clean dry and preferably clipped or trimmed with scissors You have to take up the bedding and tie the horse up for one hour It’s an extremely fancy barrier cream you apply every other day on...

I think you could size up safely.