Recent content by JanT

Thank you so much for your helpful replies.

One of the stallions smashed his automatic water drinker off the wall and flooded his and the adjoining stable completely. He kicks over water buckets as soon as you put them down. We have tried one of the flat backed buckets hooked onto the wall, but he managed to destroy it. In the field he...

From past experience, best not to put the lights in the corners as you lose too much light outside the school. They need to be placed in the centre at each end, then one in the centre or two evenly spaced along the sides.

My YO took four young ferals in five years ago as the yard was over-run with mice. Within weeks the problem was under control. The cats are well and happy and we liveries no longer have droppings in our feeds or holes in our rugs. She had tried poison in the past but it didn't work nearly so...

Thanks - just found and read it. I know there have been problems with grids in the New Forest, and elsewhere I'm sure. There just has to be a better solution.

Essex County Council are considering installing cattle grids in and around Epping Forest as part of their Forest Transport Strategy Plan. These are intended to encourage traffic to slow down, but are potentially lethal to horses. Hampshire Fire Brigade have been present at many incidents of...

Two horses - six small bales per week.

Our mare fractured her pedal bone some years ago and was on box rest for a couple of months. She was stabled away from other horses and her only contact with the outside world was when the farrier came to trim her feet. She developed strangles. We later found out the farrier had unknowingly...