Recent content by hmoreton

We have several horses and have found that those with big tongues go beautifully in it. Especially good for keen cross country types, eventing at Intermediate level! It is not torture, it's how you use it, and it has different positions. Several of our friends have borrowed one, and most have...

Has any one ETd from a pony mare? We have a very talented very proven competition (BE, BD, BS) 14.1 pure Welsh close coupled recently injured (for the season) mare that we'd love to breed a much bigger half bred out of, without the risks to her. Any previous experience and advice from others...

hi Bramble87 Also got welsh Dx TB gelding eventer like full welsh D mare both fully breeding reg etc, 14.3, mare 14.1

It's not midges (unlike African Horse Sickness, and ruminant disease Blue Tongue) it's Tabanids, which we call horse flies. Midges seem to have survived the cold spell, but there are no adult flies around to bite anything and transfer the virus- they're all larval stage snug in organic matter...

hi I'm near J14 M5 South of Gloucester, with 1 Section D hunting/event fit mare any use?

You are right that it is the usual way of killing cattle, rams, boars due to thick skulls; insensibility is instantaneous due to the brain exploding as the pressure in the central ventricles massively increases. There is no chance of an animal returning to consciousness, and in the 1000s I have...