Recent content by KathD

Forgot to say I have changed her feed but I do not think its that because she regularly has this feed in the winter. My worry is that when she cut it ( apparently in the fence as she was spotted with it in there fence) she may have pulled something at the same time. But she has not been lame and...

She a TB and she is 8. A couple of weeks ago she had a nasty cut on the inside of the swollen leg and it has now scabbed over and seems more or less healed. At that point it was swollen but it went down. She was in ligh work. Then we had the snow and she was stuck in so the swelling came up...

My mares front leg seems to be swelling up over night around her fetlock and lower leg. Today it seemed worse as she went out jumping yesterday. There's was a tiny bit of heat and no lameness. After a gentle hack the swelling had mostly gone. I'm relatively unexperienced with this and not really...

Perhaps if I am choosing my fights wisely I should try and avoid asking her to go into the school when it is empty for a while as she seems to be much more settled when she is in the company of others. All this aside she is lovely in the winter!!

Very good point, I do need to be firm. I thought I was but looking back I have let her get away with things. Its just knowing how to react appropriately.

Thank you, I am feeding her a scoop of copra meal morning and night, so perhaps I can cut it right down, just so she has something small when the others get fed. She is the only mare in a field of geldings, so was not sure whether the attention from them might be a contributing factor.

Hi I was wondering if you could help me with my dilemma. I bought a 5yr old TB mare 2years ago, since then I have been slowly bringing her on and up until recently I thought we were doing OK. We have been gradually improving and growing in confidence together. She has had off days where she been...