Recent content by Jambarissa

It depends how desperate you are. My neighbour is a builder and the son uses the 3.5t flatbed ( horsebox size) as his everyday vehicle. There's a couple who only have quite a large mobile home too. It would limit where you could go but if you're prepared to use taxis or public transport when...

It's that time of year again. My cobs have proper cob shaped heads, chunky but not long, small ears, huge forelock. I usually use the stretchy ones with the soft mesh and forelock hole but they don't last well and on a few occasions rotate so one eye is covered! Suggestions for good cob fly...

My small cob gets very itchy in spring, I'd say she's grass/sugar sensitive even though that's not considered a real thing. Antihistamines, cetirirzine at 12 tablets a day for 600kg horse, you can buy packs of 365 fairly cheaply online. Anti inflammatory diet - I did a lot of research...

Do you know what type of pressure your horse reacts best to? A hackamore applies nose and poll, transcend and lightrider tighten round the nose, Dr Cook round the whole head but mainly felt on jaw. I've tried them all on various horses, my favourite Dr Cook style (forgetting what that...

Yes we had previcox then forced onto the more expensive eqicox when it became available. As a medicine it was a game changer for many years, old retired mare moved so much better that even her top line developed.

Deosect still has instructions for making it into a fly spray and is incredibly good value - you need about a tablespoon per litre of water. My mare would always drop and roll when I applied it which was extreme behaviour for her so put me off! I have tried everything, Tritec 14 and Asorbine...

I also tried the global herbs version.

I've used on 3 horses, one with quite sever reactions to flies. No effect I could see. Worth thinking what you need. Are you trying to prevent bites, stop them landing on eyes/ears/sheath, stop horse becoming itchy? My very tasty cob needs barriers in the form of rugs and ointments, and...

If I ran one of these I'd reassure owners by having the full video available or putting a tracker on the dog so they could check how long and how far he'd been walked. I too don't mind the idea of a dog field, for certain dogs it's perfect.

We have 2 doggy daycares who use the farm tracks and our fields (not a footpath!) to walk the dogs with no control. Reported them several times, police not interested because no one was hurt and its private land. I wear a camera now and next time we have an incident I'll put it on local...

I meant to mention this. They sent me one about 6 months back, a huge hardback thing. Thought it might be a diary but nope. I saw one on the side at the Stables the other day so obviously YO sent one too. I did have an IW trailer and was registered but sold it years ago. Its obviously a...

I ride in my BP, I own an air jacket but it adds a lot of bulk so I hardly ever use it. I'd been considering the racesafe air jacket that zips to the BP but the new one can be used without and looks far more streamlined. I think it might have just come out, has anyone seen one in promo?

Big horse shop are great, roomy and well made. I also like le mieux sweetitch rugs, they have very generous belly wrap which is needed for small cob towards the end of summer.

There are plenty of decent dealers, particularly if you're buying younger horses. I always like the idea of the legal protection, but that doesn't necessarily mean you'll get your money back. There are obviously bad dealers but I do think some get a lot of heat for no good reason - if you...

I keep thinking about going back to boiling it. Evidence now is that you don't need to boil it for hours, you just add boiling water then microwave for 5 mins.