Recent content by hiddentalents

Unfortunately we don't live on site, land is 4 miles away (10 mins), so petrol/time is still being used. Unfortunately surface is highly unlikely to get replaced for anything between 5-10 years, as soon as I'm working FT (at uni) ill be saving up for other things first unfortunately! But as I...

Thanks all, you've all highlighted what I've been thinking. We have 2 mares, so whilst it would be brilliant to have a groom, it would be unrealistic, so stuck with jobs. Holiday 'cover' etc not a worry - local livery owner covers outreach too for £5-10 a day depending on muck out or not...

Own yard sole use of 30x50m menage with jumps 6.5 acres No livery £ Grow own (cheap) hay Water on site Lorry storage Amazing hacking out, hack for days without hitting too many busy roads (and only to cross) Can do what I like with my two mares, bring in/turn out etc when I like...

Where's the cheapest place to buy a pair of easyboot gloves? Size 1's. Would be open to the easyboot back country too for the equivalent size.

Can anyone recommend a long stud girth please in brown (long as in 48" not as in depth of stud girth!)

Vet told us that our horses had medical issues (ie were once lame due to a physical injury!) therefore weren't worth dog meat, nor was he prepared to drive out to ours to vet as he would only fail him as he couldn't be bothered to 'vet a nag'. Another woman told me about my main horse (6 years...

I went for the 4ft6 for mine in 5ft9/6ft rugs and it only hangs very slightly.

I have a lorry and for short 10 min journeys I have been known not to boot up, instead having brushing boots on, however she is literally squished and held in place by partitions so it would be nigh on impossible for anything to happen to her. I do boot up for longer journeys though, being grey...

Definitely. And from a non injury pov, I'm the one who isn't fussed about walking in the dark anywhere - non horsey friends all insist on going in multiples to go a few steps down a dark (but street lit!) road. I've also been complemented (or the opposite with health care professionals) on my...

Do you use travel boots? - yes If not, why not? - N/A What do you find irritating about them (lack of breathability, poor fit, slip, not robust/fall apart, poor level of protection, design aesthetics, etc)? - price, and ease of application (my mare isn't the easiest to boot up!) Are there any...

£4.75 a bale if we buy more than 8 at a time... We get 7 in the car so did 2 trips.

This gives me flashbacks from my first horse. I learnt to ride, then the riding school I was riding at was closing down so my parents bought me my first horse. In hindsight, he was totally, 100% wrong for me. He was a 9yo tbxwb ex eventer. He'd hunted out with 'novices' so his owner (and...

I've thought of that but tbh there were times when she wouldn't get ridden for months (winter is usually difficult for me to ride as dark when I start and finish work and menage freezes easily, as does the road she's on) and I don't have to ride for her to get that spark back. The problem...

6.5 years ago, I bought my little mare. When we first got her she was bordering on dangerous, bucking, spinning and mini rears. Someone actually came a cropper on her in her last home (which IMO I think was why she was sold), and from what I gather, was not an easy horse to break either...

I have the Barnsby ones which are good as well - they're fluorescent and reflective. The yellow straps appear to lose their colour after what I'd deem as fair use (I've got a pair I bought BN which are still going strong but got another pair second hand which have lost their fluorescent look in...