Recent content by Honey08

It often depends on your local planning department as to what you can use. We could only use timber. But they’ve been up 20 years and are still in great condition. I do creosote them most years, and we did replace the roof about eight years ago. They do get very hot in heat waves, but that’s...

She’s pretty blummin amazing, isn’t she! And nice to see Walter without his halo 😀.

I just saw that on a French Eventing page. Very sad. A very special horse.

After a week of bute and 30 paracetamol a day he is, dare I say, starting to stand straighter and isn’t leaning on things. We might be able to get to summer and the warmer weather and see if it helps. I’m thinking this will probably be his last winter unless he miraculously improves.

It’s trying to snow here today, wet sleety stuff. This is our entrance hall, which is unfinished. I brought our elderly bunny inside in October because her companion died and she looked frail and lonely. Then I got lent another elderly bunny as a companion, and finally managed to catch the...

We’re just going to give anti inflammatory and pain killers and see how he goes. He’s 23 and the vet thinks (as do I) it’s probably degeneration/arthritis in his spine or sacroiliac joint. If it lets him move around comfortably we will stick with that, but any worsening and we pts. We’ll...

Yes it doesn’t look good. Haven’t seen the vet yet, but my elderly gelding seems to be showing a lot of symptoms of it. Hopefully we’ll see the vet tomorrow.

Anyone had any experiences of this?

I’m telling myself the hosepipe won’t have made it a wetter than it already is! At least the hose feeds off a spring, so I haven’t emptied a tank or run up a water bill!

Just to add insult to injury I just remembered that I left the hosepipe to the field trough switched on at 8am, so I’ve watered the field for 4.5 hours on top of the rain! 🙁😱

We have historically very boggy clay land, but it coped really well due to drying out so well this summer. We kept them on the autumn field until Xmas (they usually come off it by November) which meant that the winter field didn’t get muddy until last week. Coinciding with our hay supplier...

I never said congratulations on my opening post, too busy speculating! But congratulations to her and the family!

Roz Canter has had a second baby girl. 👶 Now… will she be back in time for Badminton?? Quite a feat, but I wouldn’t be suprised!

Just bumping this to see how everyone’s areas are doing. Our supplier increased prices from £40-50 at the start of winter. Last week they informed us that they had run out and couldn’t find anymore. I’ve contacted a couple of other local suppliers and one won’t take new customers, the other is...

Perhaps they were trying to get the grass to grow? Last year was a strange year for grass/hay. Our suppliers have completely run out of hay now. We are having to grovel round other suppliers and pay crazy prices.