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Hoping you lovely people can give me some advice/guidance as i have so many ideas flying round my head right now haha! sorry i think its going to be a long one! In a couple of weeks I am moving my horse to a new yard/field. We have a 1.5 acre field and a 3 acre field between 3 horses (i have a...

So I've just purchased a horse, the passport is from leisure horse Ireland and he came over from Ireland a couple of years ago. I've just sent off his passport to be updated with my details but I'm unsure if I need to get it overstamped when it comes back? Is it obvious if this has already been...

Unfortunately he failed his vetting on a couple of things so i won't be bringing him home anyway ? the search goes on!

Thanks for all your replies- the owner offered to hire the school, I'd personally view without but would prefer to see it in a school if possible so i wasn't going to argue when she offered! He was just backed at a different yard and came back just before Christmas, since then he has done a...

Viewing a horse on Saturday but there is no area to ride in at their yard so the owner is hiring an arena nearby for the viewing, should I offer to pay for this or is it the owners responsibility?

I'm hopefully purchasing a horse if he passes his vetting tomorrow! But he's built like a tank! So thinking forward to transport is there any tips that may be useful for transporting him? I'd guess he's around 800kg (although i might be being generous) 16.1hh comtois and very wide! I have little...

can all you lovely people reccomend your favourite stable toys? Its that time of year again where many of our horses are spending much more time in their stables so i need new enrichment ideas!! my horse has been plouging through hay like it is going out of fashion and although she is the ideal...

ive been looking at getting some clippers, i only wanted to spend about £150 though (could go more expensive but to clip one horse i dont think it needs it). I have a cob with a pretty substantial coat, but shes not bothered about noise one bit and the yard has power so no urgent need for...

can anyone recommend a feed for my mare? She has been out of work over winter and is now somewhat fit but we still need to work on building her top line. She is quite "spicy" so would need something non heating, we have worked hard to get her down to a really good weight so something low...

Im currently looking into buying a youngster, and although i have the experience to back a horse, it is just me who would be doing it and im not keen on the idea as i always like to have an extra pair of hands on the ground so i am looking at prices for getting a horse professionally backed, i...

A friend has a lead rein pony, she is somewhere around 16 years old and her daughter has moved off of lead rein and onto a first ridden sort of pony. She is desperate not to sell the lead rein pony- She is mostly good on hacks but in the school you cannot get her to move anywhere off the lead...

So i want to buy my first horse. Im 22, with plenty of experience and im just sick of loaning and i think it may be almost the right time to buy. My partner and i have recently bought our first house so we have a mortgage and all the costs that come with that, to keep up with. Neither of us have...

Is there any way of giving a powder supplement without giving a full feed? Looking at giving a calming supplement (dodson and horrell, placid) but i currently dont feed my mare as they have really good grazing and ad lib hay, not in much work so is frankly a little bit fat 🙈 not wanting to...

We have a solid loan agreement set out and were always talking and she loves the fact that i want to take isla out and about as she doesnt get the chance to ride much, in all honesty theres no reason that she would want to terminate the loan, its just me being paranoid because ive had so many...

So ive had my part loan mare for about 7 months now, all has gone smoothly (apart from her recent lameness but appears to be sound now after a few weeks off) and i love her owner too, we both get on really well and have a very similar approach to horse management! I know that her owner has had a...