Recent content by jinglejoys

Yes I echoe the previous question,how old? Blue had this when she was young and the vet said just allow pleanty of excersize,hill work and backing up excersizes over logs etc. She grew out of it used to drive me the five miles to work and then back home in the summer at my old job Malaga had...

Find a lot of Irish TB's don't like Polo's and my old mule Picasso hadn't a clue about them when he first came from Spain :)

Can't get the sort of tack I want in the UK.Every shop has the standard Shires catalogue stuff you can buy anywhere else

http://www.amazon.com/Easy-Mount-Horse-Portable-Mounting/dp/B0012DQEP4 I have one of these I got from another mule owner in the States...not much good on soft ground though

Actually although this is funny its becoming a worrying trend and as seemingly thought of as "minority users" I think it ought to be taken seriously before we are driven off the roads altogether with silly rules and regulations :(

I was present in my SC when the horse in the ring before me in a "traditional" carriage complete with groom went AWOL (it was suspected it was stung by a wasp) the first one thrown out and under the wheels was the groom, then the driver, and then the horse charged round the small ring and out...

Oi!!!!!! What's wrong with a Mule!!!!? ;) http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y190/jinglejoys/Odds%20and%20sods/stubbornheckno.jpg

Its not only Horses that die from Ragwort poisoning I have goats Anyway the other day I was shutting the driveway gate and saw a cinnabar moth caterpillar trying to make its way across the drive in front of my car. I picked it up and placed it on a groundsel plant with its siblings and it...

The first time I took my lovely PB Arab (other part was a donkey) to the Three Counties on a stand we had this problem.She had a crowd watching so she said she wasn't getting in that bloody bear cave on wheels with a load of predators standing round waiting to eat her...no respectable mule would...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/SHIRES-EQUESTRIAN-LEATHER-CRUPPER-ATTACHMENT/dp/B0057WQ75I Just googled and this came up...never tried one as all my saddles have pleanty of rings and attatchments (wouldn't it be easier to get a D ring fitted they are so useful for working equines)

Wish I only had 2x2metres to worry about instead of 13acres!!! That would only take a few hours!!! put salt down the hole once you,ve pulled and it will stop any root bits from regrowing

If you pull it put salt down the hole and it will prevent any off cuts growing.As a point of interest I had one sneaky little ****** appear outside my front door.Grew up in a big crown so I put a handful of salt on it and it withered and died but don't try this in the field as horses love the salt!

Agree with amymay.....didn't think people used barbed wire any more!Bit primitive.

I never haggle. If the price isn't right for you I wouldn't bother going to look

Can't take the dog out anywhere can't leave it in the garden...and they wonder why dogs and people aren't socialized,we call ourselves a nation of dog lovers!!?