Recent content by heidiharvsnroo

Mine will be in, but then again she is in full time now anyway over winter, bar her turn out slot/being ridden.

She gets fed once when she is out in summer, and that's always just a small feed to get her supplements into her. In winter she has 2 feeds. One at night, with a large and small net, medium net at brekkie along with her feed and a bag full tipped over the door at lunch.

You can buy proper sawdust. Not shavings, but the actual dust. I thought about it and using it at the bottom of my bed to soak all the wet up as I semi deep litter now during winter. However, not recommended if you are in an indoor stable so to speak in a barn with other horses as it takes a...

Erm, had one on her "third post?". Are you referring to me? I aint been at school for the past 11 years, thanks!! I actually requested it got pulled, after not wanting to rock the boat any more, should have thought about it before putting the thread up. People know the person involved and...

27. Own my own car (no finance), work full time, have my own house, married (although he doesn't bring in anywhere near as much money as me). I have 2 dogs, 2 bearded dragons, a guinea pig an a horse to cope with! Husband has a lot of debt from before I met him, however this is being managed...

When I first moved my mare to the yard she was in a paddock on her own next to my friend's 2. She was fine, at first, but then got so attached it got to the point where if my friend and her mum took their 2 out she would scream and box walk in her stable or charge up and down the field non-stop...

Body Shop Almond Hand creme and the wash. Brilliant stuff. And gloves! Rubber gloves when washing buckets etc, thermal glove when mucking out, (leather palms) and then my riding gloves.

My mare was a bit like this. To be fair she settled very well in her stable, but she was out in a field on her own next to my friends 2 and she became very attached to them, to the extent that if my friend took hers out hacking or to a show, she would start to box walk and shout for them...

I was like that until I went and looked round. There are plenty of good livery yards out there, that's just obscene!

Interesting that someone has mentioned a wagon having its own insurance...I've never known that. All insurance policies I've seen on wagons insure the wagon itself and 3rd party for any crashes etc, but not the actual horse inside. True. Its a legal mine field, which is why I'm happy to part...

Hmmm, tried editing my above post as I had a bit more to add but can't, so here is the rest of it. Insuring for vets bills etc is one thing that I think should be up to the rider/owner. My mare is 19 and on a veteran package, so I know I need to put a bit aside each month for stuff that...

Same as what would happen if someone's child smashed your window I suppose. It is not illegal, but very, very daft. Ever since I started riding other people's horses for them and loaning I joined BD which gives me free 3rd party liability insurance. BHS do as well. I always remember one...

Ouch!! £63 a week???

I'm on assisted DIY- as in horses are fed in the mornings for us. Everything else is down to me. Its £36.50 a week, includes all my hay/haylage and straw (as much as I want), March through to October/November grazing, and then allocated slots for turn out through the winter. 2 outdoor...

Each to their own but I personally don't see the point in having a horse to have it on full livery? Mine is supposed to be DIY, but our owner has a "manager" that basically sorts out turn out slots, paddocks and feeds in the mornings for us so I don't have to actually go down in the mornings...