Recent content by Gwyntbryn

We had rearing and napping problems with a just cut gelding whose history we knew completely. He had been properly broken in and had also been well handled from birth. It was obvious to me that it was pain related, so we had all the normal checks done, teeth, back, saddle, etc, and then decided...

I've bought and sold at the warranted welsh cob sales. I have to say buying was more successful than selling! However as long as it's a proper warranted sale you should be ok.

Sounds like something has happened to him at a show in a "former life" ie before you got him. Possibly he napped with a previous rider and got a thrashing for it. I have a gelding who had gastric ulcer disease and associated being worked in a manège with being in pain, although he will hack out...

Patella is in the hind leg, so must have been something else

I've always started with warm water and a sponge with shampoo and then progressed to hose. I have a great fitting for the end of the hose that adjusts the spray. One of the settings is a fine shower. I find use this with not to much water pressure with the head of the spray gun close to the...

Excellent. We travelled Bradley for the first time on Saturday having used the method I indicated above, and he loaded first time, travelled well, came off the trailer at the show calmly, and loaded between classes calmly. We did need to use a bucket to encourage him in for the return journey...

I'm intrigued. As a resident of Welwyn garden city I'd love to know where this phantom yard is. There are several very successful yards in the area, none of which are occupied by thieves and vagabonds. I'm also wondering why the op, having insisted that he or she is not a horse owner, was...

You need to join the rest of us whippet nutters on the whippet appreciation society Facebook page. We'll love to see all your pictures

I swear by naf pro feet. Saved my mares life when she had a persistent deep abscess and the vet recommended pts. Also keeps her brothers feet so that shoes actually stay on. I haven't found anything else so good. It does take a while for you to see a result as it works from the inside. I know it...

Have you had this checked by a vet? Only saying this as a friend casually mentioned something similar to a vet at vaccination time and it turned out to be cancerous. Pony is ok but has had said appendage amputated.

We take our whippet lurcher with us when we caravan and she sleeps in the awning in her crate which has a cover so she is in a tent within a tent if y see what I mean. When not in the awning she is tethered to her corkscrew. Being a spoiled whippet cross she has her own camping chair complete...

However make sure you have breakaway points to avoid serious damage if they go through the fence. Even with a breakaway my young mare had a deep rope burn acros her neck when charging through the fence when a tree came down in the gales.

When I teaching my babies to load I start with leading them through, up the back ramp and down the front. They only ever come out the front, so they aren't expecting to come out backwards. I also second the use of some kind of controller halter, I use the Richard maxwell one for reluctant ones...

Turn down the three quarter line, leg yield towards the fence and ask for canter as you get back to the track.

My whippet cross likes wildlife programmes so much she actually recognises David attenborough's voice and plants herself in the best TV watching place