Recent content by holeymoley

So I thought I’d cracked it. Tried acid ease and we’ve been dry for about 3 weeks 🤩. Concerned that grass is coming so popped muzzle on. Last two days we’ve had a messy back end. So deflated with this. He’s in today so we’ll see if more through the gut settles it.

Mine will line up against anything. He understands the word ‘mount’ or ‘mounting’ and if he happens to swing his bum away I just say ‘bum in’ and he seems to understand.I think years ago I use to tap him on the bum and say ‘mounting’ if he moved out. I think everytime you mount just say the...

Ah gutted for you. Don’t beat yourself up, sometimes it’s very hard to differentiate with what it is. The weather is up and down too.

Shires ones have worked for me but I usually have to get full size.

Yes I think it definitely does. I had a lameness work up done on him last year and both vets thought it was hocks. I didn’t agree and thought it was higher up but went with their expertise and treated his hocks with arthramid. Didn’t really see much difference. At the same time I noticed when...

It's tricky as he has stifle arthritis so he can be quite stiff some mornings if he's been stood for a while. Again when bringing in if he's just stood waiting he can be stiff coming out so it's tricky to differentiate at times. In hindsight he was probably more slower than usual but then my...

Yes. My 23 year old has had a strange pulse in one front leg all week. Farrier hoof tested around pedal bone and no reaction but did say there was a bit of heat. He started slightly pointing it last night but still could weight bare albeit had it more further forward than the other hoof. I...

Sorry this might be quite to the point as currently at the yard. Horse stood on a large stone/rock on monday evening coming in from the field. He wouldn’t weight bare until it was pulled out. I noticed he had strong pulse that evening in that leg only. Farrier was due Wednesday and I mentioned...

I think this is possibly the page you are looking for- page 6 https://www.gov.scot/publications/code-practice-welfare-equidae/pages/6/

The ff puts me off price-wise. They were absolutely worth it when they came out but the quality has really dropped to the point I'm having to replace annually which I suppose isn't that big an expense, but I still have his very first one which is going strong! I cut the hole in it bigger...

I would like to know if it's hard or flexible plastic...

Interested to hear anything that works for you as my ems(confirmed) has what I suspect to be stifle arthritis. His insulin is controlled but when it wasn’t, it was at 300+. I would agree with you that 20 is within the normal range. As far as I can remember anything under 30 is normal. I reduced...

Is that definitely what it is? In the case that I’ve seen, lymes can cause a lot of lumps to appear on the body, sometimes thought of as other things but are actually a product of the lymes disease.

That's interesting, so you felt it benefitted him better by giving him it in dinner. I'm unsure how long it takes to get in to the blood stream. Ah you've answered my question. So it would actually be more beneficial to give a full sachet in dinner.

Yes, likewise. I bought a brand new K&M and persevered for over a year with it but it was just no good for me. Went back to Ideal which felt amazing in comparison.