Recent content by herbert

Shires Grazing Muzzle everytime. Hard to get off and very effective. Got mine for about £3 on Ebay. Couldn't cope without it.

Try Epsom Salts. About 96p for a kilo. Since feeding this to my laminitic prone cob he has never had laminitis. I use 20grms a day.

Can anyone remind me what the soaked oat diet consists of?

Same as you except x 20 horses

Yes, have exactly just the same problem and have resigned myself to the fact that my cob prefers to live in. If it is too cold or hot he will break the gate to get back in and if there is a fly in the field he will jump the gate and go back to his stable. Have come to an agreement with him that...

My Grey Welsh mare had quite a bad sarcoid quite near her eye. I was debating as to which treament would be best, (have very little faith in vets with pound signs glowing in their eyes) when it disappeared completely. This was over a year ago and there is no sign of anything reappearing.

Put 20 grms Epsom Salts in a small amount of High Fibre Nuts. I know it is out of fashion but it keeps my laminitic sound and I swear by it. Avoid grass except for an hour on a piece of very poor pasture.

Have just got a pony fat on nothing but ad lib haylage and high fibre nuts and this was a THIN pony. She has taken about 3 months to get weight on but now she looks fantastic and she never gets fizzy.

On Wedneday my fine legged mare rolled in the indoor school and caught her hind leg on the gate resulting in the gate being unhinged. It is a big heavy metal gate so not an easy job to get it off. Within hours leg had swelled to a football. Envisaged big leg for weeks. Luckily the silo pit...

Spillers high Fibre cubes, Speedibeet and 20g Epsom Salts.

Take him a bunch of flowers and a cheap box of chocolates and watch his face. Will be well worth the expense. Have used this on several stroppy men and it stops them dead in their tracks.

Put some pig oil on and it will go.

Just wondered if anyone has ever come across a grey Welsh Section D. I was judjing at a show on Sunday and would have bet my life on a pony being a Connemara however it turned out to be Welsh. Would love to know how many grey Section D's are out there.

Have just paid 63p for a tin of well known dog food that is 80% water. This must be the most expensive water my dog has ever had. Anyone got any cheaper alternatives for feeding a dog. He refuses, no matter how hungry, to eat dried food.

Go to your nearest horse and tack sale and pick up a second hand one for next to nothing. My last purchase was a Rambo Heavyweight turnout, almost new for £10. (It was the middle of the summer though) There are still bargains to be had.