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My short shoeing break is usually twelve weeks . But G did a eight week one early winter last year it did the feet particularly the frogs a deal of good . Of course you don’t need to stop work so they can maintain a level of fitness . I do have boots for road work on short breaks .

Everything horses eat in the natural way of things contains sugar . Is the the issue with carrots that they can cause a blood sugar spike where what laminic horse is a restricted but steady supply of fibre rich slow to digest food .

Because if the horse is silly and say broncs you have that outside line just waiting to cause mayhem no one can control a horse using one two or six lunge lines . A horse has to be trained whats needed and you don’t need two reins for that .Horses who have been allowed I would say trained to be...

There’s always a reason that horses are not sound close to shoeing if the shoeing interval has not been too long . I would be very cautious if I where you . Feet like that probaly need a mri .

No I avoid giving them anything with garlic in .

Worse case senario a niggilng soft tissue injury within the foot . An X-ray may not help . Hard one ,how much of a chance are you prepared to take?

I would never ever use two lines with an excitable horse that’s bad mannered on the lunge it’s just to dangerous .

The loan has not started the horse is lame I am not sure what the question is really A lame novice eventer is use to OP so she needs to move on .

That’s awful l am so sorry for you both . At least you know .

Any one who rides cross country without something to keep the saddle forward in emergency is nuts .

Silly boys , I had two who played with sticks I can only assume they learnt from the labradors

I always have my dieting horses ( I have two atm on strict rations ) on a high quality balancer and a small amount of linseed . One of them Fatty has been one a diet most of his life he’s retired now I had him on a good but cheap supplement and changed him in April to a super dooper one I see a...

I agree with ihatework many horses respond to time in the right sort of field it’s unfashionable now just to turn away ,insurance has lead to a rush to treat and because we can do more we think we must . I would much prefer to have an answer before I turned away though . Turned away horses need...

I do think your horse is a little fat but it’s really hard to tell from that photo .

You need to go straight for referral and be clear that there’s only 5k in the pot if the lameness is multicausal diagnostics can run through that very quickly .