Recent content by healinghooves

Steve Dudley is excellent, he is in Stourbridge althouh I'm not sure if he is still working on horses, but there are a couple of ladies from his practice that do horses and are brilliant, can't remember their names as it's been a while since I've needed them.

Not sure if they still do them, but I used to use the Nathe bits, my old boy kept backing off from the bit, when I brought him he was in a loose ring snaffle. Anyway, my instructor suggested a Nathe Loose ring snaffle and we never looked back. After using it for 6-8 months, I then started...

Get off and lead home.

Thanks to all who have taken part and have offered advice, it has certainly given me some feedback and areas where I need to look further into especially the multiple horse owners and history into behaviour.

Yup, you can be annoyed about it but IMO and experience, it's not worth it. The main point is that you have sold your saddle, that's all that you set out to do, its done. Why get yourself worked up about the fact that she's used your picture. The same thing happened to me, I sold an...

So sorry to hear of your experience and glad to hear you are both ok. I guess when it comes to riding again, maybe see if someone can come out with you on foot just to build up and/or reassure you and your horse. You can also take some Bach Rescue Remedy before you next ride , this will...

Thanks for pointing out the spelling error. I did get it proof read so I'm not sure how that got past. I also did trial it on a small group of people of single horse owners (10) and felt I wanted to get a broader picture, if possible, hence opening it out to another forum. I don't think...

However you feel now or however you were at the time, you were there for your friend and her horse at their time of need. It's never easy and its never plesant whether planned or unplanned. I was lucky (if you can call it that) I was able to plan my old boys end, he had arthiritis and a...

Thankyou DougalJ.

Thankyou, I'll add those in when I get the final results from survey monkey. I appreciate your help and feedback.

Oh, this is the first time i've used survey monkey too. I appreciate the feedback, at least I know for next time!

ok thats interesting. I'm using this as primary research, as soon as I've identified any correlations I'm then going to do a field observation on the seperate groups. I'm using this survey to see firstly if there are any links to behaviour.

Oh right, I see, thanks, didn't think of that at all. Is it possible to comment using your "main horse" or is it worth filling it in for each horse? Feedback appreciated as this is the first survey I've done Thanks

Hi, I'm a 2nd year degree student and am looking at the effect of behaviour and grazing, I've created a surve and really need some help! Please could you all click on the link below and answer the questions on grazing for me. There are 10 questions and it will take approximately 3...

This will sound harsh, and it's what everyone else here has said but you cannot live your life for someone else - you have summed it up by your last sentence. Take the job and go for it, this sounds like a brilliant opportunity, one that many others would jump at. You will still be friends no...