Recent content by Kafairia

I wouldn't consider any kind of combination bit for a youngster, they are a lot of pressure and it could be too much. It's often advertised that the hackamore comes into play first, but really it's the other way around. I see your logic completely however. Most of them have a really strong gag...

Personally my native X & Shetland aren't getting a whole lot of hay, sometimes not at all. They still wait at the gate for the hay after some hard feed, but they have a field full of grass and don't need it anymore. My TB has an acre full of lush grass to himself, but he will not let you...

After using and loving my current JW showjumping saddle, recently I have started to get a lot of back pain (which probably shouldn't be happening to someone in their late teens!). Since starting faster work, and more jumping, I've been needing to really sit up and lean back to collect and it's...

Thanks for your reply. :) Yep, our fields are just grass with no stones at all. The feed I'm using is Saracens Conditioning cubes and EquiJewel, which is rice bran based. I'm trying so hard with that - unmollased chaff with it, but high in fibre. I'm not really prepared to change it, because...

Hi, This isn't your typical TB to begin with. He (touchwood) has only thrown 1 shoe since having him, (wet, sticky mud combined with him skidding around, tanking it after moving yards caused him to step on the inside of his hind shoe and pull it off horizontally - silly boy!) which is much...

Is it possible to use some size L / XL / XXL overreach boots with some smaller ones if needed on top? My TB did this the other day being a derp, and this was what I did to stop him cutting himself on the pastern and proceeding to pull his shoe off sideways. May be worth a go? :-)

Browsing through the new online Lemieux catalogue (I just can't resist!) and I saw it said on the second page underneath a large feature photo of Carl on Uthopia and Charlotte on Valegro, the owners of the horses. And I'm sure that Uthopia's owner is anonymous, yet as Uthopia's owner it is...

Perfect suggestion - I've been there too, but I was suspicious of multiple culprits, so rather than going in guns blazing, I put a note on top of the feed (inside the bin) and saying "I know you you are, STOP!!" and a well placed nut on top to see if anyone had gone in it, and it stopped the...

Thank you! I popped into work and have an uncle in engineering or something to do with cars and he's getting us the batteries and hopefully helping us set it up. Just trying to figure out how I'm going to do it so that I can at least attempt to not make a circuit...

IS THIS A NEWFOREST THING?!! He's the only sod I've ever met that is so determined to escape, he's currently got the tall posts and 4 strands of electric tape to keep him in, even then he can jump it... Once he went through the middle too, hence 4 strands... I remember once he took out a...

I would never not insure any of my horses in my experience, I have a bit in hand always (not huge amount though) to cover anything small that we wouldn't claim on insurance for. But I'm my experience, insurance - the right one that's is, is worth having, I'd had the pony about 3 weeks and we had...

I'm 16. I work every weekend and all through holidays at my local tack store and have done since I was 15. My grandparents bought me my first pony, and when I outgrew him and needed another, selling him would have destroyed me so I had to look into funding my new horse myself, so I'm proud to...

I have always dealt with mains electric fences and it's just a switch I deal with, but now I'm moving yards somewhere (hopefully!) that has all this electric energiser things and I'm feeling very out of my depth. I don't have a huge budget but an old livery left me her fence energiser years and...

Thanks for your replies everyone, we viewed it and it's very secluded on the livery yard so suits the ponies down to the ground. I think the TB will be happy too. I'm so excited now, but have some random fencing questions I'll open another thread for. And I'm afraid they can't all go in...

Bumping up, any tips appreciated, and I think I've figured what I'm doing fencing wise to stop him hurting himself or escaping, but if you have anything to share that would be great :) I'm so excited / nervous eek