Recent content by Jacobi

What the gold, circular emblem is that the British Dressage Team wore during the Olympics? What does it signify? Is it a rider/trainer award of some sort?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39tJ_DYeM_Y

http://www.raraequus.com/edu1/pages/kimberwick_mouth.html

In North America, many (if not most) trailers are rear load/unload, especially smaller, 2 horse trailers. Most horses can be easily trained to back out of a trailer slowly and carefully.

Had it done twice. Took a few days off. Spent the day of surgery (done in a.m.) mostly sleeping (planned it that way - worked night shift the night before). Gives the corneal epithelium a good start on healing and keeps any discomfort to a minimum. Stayed away from the barn for about 3 days - to...

http://www.carouselsaddlery.co.uk/trolleyed/12/35/index.htm

Most of our stables have automatic waterers, water lines are buried below frost level and then run up inside the building. Inside water lines are run on interior walls, rather than exterior walls. Many of our outdoor paddocks also have automatic waterers along with various heating arrangements...

Yes we heat the water. Lots of options. Electric trough heaters for larger troughs either floating (horses sometimes play with these), sinking or drain plug mounted. We also have heated buckets of various sizes, I use 16 gallon size in my individual paddocks - generally they need to be filled...

Can't speak for your balers over there, but in Western Canada our bales are generally 50-75 lb (22-35 kg). The heavier bales are often spoiled - baled with too high a moisture level, so one tends to be a bit wary of them. They're easy to pick out if you're loading a bunch of bales, you get a...

Mine destroyed the Rambo in less than an hour. Best I've found are made locally here - nice heavy Cordura shell. Surely someone in the UK makes something similar? If not, P.M. me - I can provide two sources here and I'm sure they'd ship them.

OMG! -6 and multiple rugs??? Chiming in from Canada (also known as the Great White North). We routinely get temperatures of -30 to -40 C (and occasionally colder). Many horses here are out without any rugs at all. Most horses in work (and therefore clipped to some degree) will have 1 and...

Electric or propane heaters in my part of the world. I have two in paddocks with 15 gallon tubs with electric heaters. Ice free in -29C temps last week.

7 hour time difference.

According to their website the Haygain can steam an entire strung bale OR the equivalent of loose hay OR haynets. http://www.haygain.com/products_demo_HG1000.php