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Could anyone please let me know which fly sheet they consider the best? I bought a Weatherbeeta Air flow which the girl in the shop insisted would fit (it didn't!) but it felt heavy on my cob and he seemed to be hot in it! Mind you it was skin tight so obviously air wasn't flowing! The tack...

What amazes me is that it is almost impossible to get the RSPCA to go in to remove at risk horses from abuse and cruel situations until the horses are barely alive - yet this bunch of inexperienced council workers can take it upon themselves to shoot seemingly healthy horses without taking any...

No the paddocks are too small for them to stay full time - the are in much bigger paddocks that have no grass just mud - and water! like everyone else!! - they all live out 24/7 anyway I just wondered how long - if at all - I have to monitor their grazing on the long grass

I have been allowed to graze my 3 ponies on a couple of small paddocks which have got longish grass on them - I have been taking it slowly with them starting with half an hour a day for a week, then 3/4 hours a day and now an hour a day - but I would be grateful for advice on how to progress -...

I just wanted to let all those lovely people who enquired about the little shetland that he is alive and doing well!!! It has even baffled the vet who expected his demise within a week due to the massive raise in the liver enzymes ... it seems that yes he has liver damage and the injection...

Wow Sarah - why didn't I think of that! - yes very first thing Monday I will be on the phone to them - I was going to contact them to get further info regarding the extent of the damage to the liver but completely forgot about the samples taken earlier - thank you!

Thanks for the replies No he's not been prescribed Prascend! His blood count was 200+ - I still haven't got the correct total from them yet! He was injected into the chest with the Tetanus and the blood was taken from his neck - and it was the site on his neck that was swollen. The vet did...

Thanks for the reply - no signs of laminitis yet (and his previous owner said he never had any incidence of laminitis!); I moved both ponies 6 months ago to their new home and it was the first time this old lad had moved since being bought as a foal by the previous owner; he coped with the...

My 20+ shetland cross (cushings sufferer) had a tetanus booster earlier this week and bloods taken to see how advanced the cushings is - he isn't used to veterinarian procedures and jumped about alot with the needle stuck in him. But blood was eventually taken. The next morning he seemed...