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One of my brood mares had severe anxiety issues, she had been imported from Ireland as a foster brood mare and had produced foals that went on to be graded SH. If she panicked she would go through fences, but I kept her with a small group of mare out 24/7 and became a lot easier to handle as...

We have a mouse in the utility room, which is really annoying because we have five cats and a dog that makes a big fuss about looking for anything furry. So far it has evaded being caught in the live trap, it can take a biscuit and not set it off. The rats under the decking have been swinging...

I am lucky I have storage, but when I just had a shed I could only store about 40 small at a time. The other alternative is to buy wrapped round hay/haylage and put them in the garden. I used to buy as much as i could but saying buying in advance to store for most people is a big ask, after...

Our local hay and straw sale Cambs. https://www.brown-co.com/view-news/short-supply-sees-record-breaking-prices-achieved-at-annual-brown-co-st-ives-hay-straw-auction

I life there seems a general pressure to do things, and with riding the is extra pressure from outside( the constant you don't want to do it like that) and the constant pressure from our selves to improve or make challenges, when reality as long as we do no harm to the animal its OK just to be...

Its natural for mares to kick out, the weather has been very mild and she may be ovulating. One of mine could go back wards going faster than some horses go forwards kicking out. This why some yards separate mares from geldings but most geldings get the message and stay clear. Some mares will...

I know at least three people who have been kicked in the head and only one survived.

I have several types of fork, and depending on the bedding change them. Straw muck fork, shavings and wood pellet a fine tine shaped shaving fork and a shovel. I also throw or scrape the muck into a pile against the wall and then throw it in to a barrow with a snow shovel.

I haven't been for a long time, I used to steward and the one thing you do get is experienced judges and well built courses, and you can usually enter the similar classes, under different judges. It is busy but it's sort of calm busy, the first time we did R of R it was on a show ground near...

I look at like a racehorse in training, they are performance animals with a limited competition life and it in the owners terms its not being managed or getting the results they would like they remove from the trainer. I can understand the trainer not wanting it to leave but depending on the...

I use this web site to compare the price/ingredients of dog food. https://www.allaboutdogfood.co.uk/ I used Arden Grange for years, for lurchers, rottiX and now light for weight control of the dachshund, and labdoddle mixed with something else, they were doing too well on Wolf in the...

I did DIY or rented fields for most of my horse owning life. If I couldn't afford land a stable in the garden for me was the next best thing, they are classed as domestic animals, and I had an over sized garden with an existing building to convert. It gave FU space, I could also child mind and...

A part from not being raced you also have to factor in is has it ever been in training. They are born as early in the year as possible with an eye to racing on the flat as a two year old, and their official birth date is the January 1st, so if they have been preped to race the chances are what...

It may come down to use of language. If someone will not return property to you, you can try and take your goods back, and if you have proof of owner ship you may want to inform the police you intend to try and remove them even if they can not intervene as it's a civil dispute. Then at least you...

This so true, our last long term home had stables, bought it summer and no one told us it was on the edge of the flood plain and the area where the stables were flooded up to 2ft with an inch of water in the stables. Lost 40 bales of hay, not water damaged but the damp sent it mouldy. The good...