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I was just listening to the radio 4 programme on this evening about the lack of funds available from British Wool who usually buy many of the fleeces from UK farmers - Covid has greatly reduced global sales and potential revenue streams for wool. I use my sand paddock as a turnout area and also...

Hello everyone, i'm looking to get my lorry re-sprayed and have tried very hard to find someone in the Guildford area, but everyone i've been in touch with either 'doesn't do horseboxes...' (but does vans... i can't quite work that one out!) or doesn't have an oven large enough for a small...

Thank you all for all your info. on these forums. I find them so helpful. Looking forward to reading and chatting to you all.

Hello everyone, thank you so much for your messages, comments, support and advice. It is really interesting reading your stories. My girl came home yesterday having shown 6 areas of inflammation along the spine in the thoracic region (although the vet says the inflammation looks mild on the...

Criso I'm not sure - I will find out next week as my horse goes in on Tuesday for the bone scan. If ISLD is an option, I will find out how many horses they have treated since I feel you just have the one chance of surgery, so I'd like my horse to be treated by the most expert person in this...

Frosty Fingers he looks great!

I am wondering whether to remain at Liphook for a KS operation, or to go further afield and opt for ISLD or perhaps go to Sven Kold. Very difficult to know where to start. Could you recommend your vets who operated on your horses to me? Thank you

Thank you Goldenstar - that's very helpful to hear of your success with the injections. How often did your horse have to have them? Following the bone scan I think I will get in touch with Cotts Equine clinic for their opinion too. I am slightly wary of going down the injection route and...

Hi Aregona, Just had my horse x rayed today and vet suspects kissing spine subject to further diagnosis after a bone scan at Liphook. Wanted to ask how your horse is getting on now it is a few years after the keyhole surgery carried out by Cotts? Hoping it all went well and would much...

Thank you all for your help, Feet First popped through the door this morning so I'm looking forward to reading it all. I realise now my horse has the right diet for a barefoot horse but she grazes in a soft field all day, is schooled on a soft surface 3 X per week and her feet only touch tarmac...

Thank you Mrs D - do you mean 20 - 30 mins a day?

Thank you Clava - how much roadwork do you do? And do your horse's feet wear evenly? Due to my horses conformation her feet wear very unevenly in front - perhaps this is the way they should wear, but if so why does a farrier always even them up again?

Hello everyone, Since leaving my last yard I wasn't able to take my wonderful farrier with me who used to trim my barefoot TB (he had a very good understanding of barefoot horses having worked out in the USA and taken part in trials with native horses as well as being a remedial farrier with a...

Does anyone know if wood pellets rot down quickly? I have a very messy mare and all horses at our yard are on miscanthus bedding which is lovely, but I too am adding 3 - 4 bales of bedding a week. The bedding has to rot down quickly for the YO. to consider it. Thank you!

In my recent experience with my horse who is very sensitive to sugar, now she is on a very low sugar diet (SS green gold alfa A which has no additives, quickbeet and micronised linseed + a balancer) and we haven't had any problems with mudfever this year. Last year she was on box rest for 2...