So fed up with this weather, I would actually swap for snow I think! Like a lot of others I am trying to keep mine in if they have been ridden to save the fields a bit. But they are so wet I am not sure if it is making any difference. And trying to ride in the dry is proving to be tricky too...
Sorry to hijack post, but couldn't help noticing comment about in season - my mare has, for second year in a row, turned into an absolute madam in November, and I am convinced as she has been angel for the last 6 months, that it's something relating to hormones.
Any thoughts / advice on this...
I have a mare that was diagnosed with juvenile arthritis in her hocks 3 years ago at age 3.5. She had a year off to have a foal, and then we x-rayed again after that & had one of the hocks injected as the year off had not resulted in the fusing that we had hoped for. She was then backed (at 5...
I do it regularly in the winter and have never had any problems. Like so many others have said it depends where you are, I am in an area where there are lots of street lights and we stay of busy roads and we have a lot of lights and hi viz and I would never go out on my own. I have an arthritic...