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I thought about this the other day and actually I'd take this rain over the searing summer heat you are now starting to get in Southern...

Well the weather turned nasty about 16.45 and now it's almost sleeting

Unruly dogs, tractors, quads, trailers rattling past.

I don't think it's coming early, I think it's just been such a dire winter we are shocked to see any signs of life beyond relentless...

Riding school ones, yes, they did 3-5 hours / day but the private ones generally only one hour or so of work. And not great turnout in...

Same here whehn I was young but generally fed oats, chaff plus sugar beet in the winter. But I bet those horses worked far mnore than...

You usually have them with liver and a nice chianti.....

I feed one of my Speedibeet with straight oats and a bit of flaked maize (he always gets pink powder, Equijewel, carron oil and salt)...

I fed my first horse oats, simply because it was the only type of feed that didn't get stolen at the Livery yard 🙈

Does anyone still feed straight oats? In my youth I was at a stables of 100 horses, about half and half private and riding school. 95 %...

When I bought mine breeder refused flexion tests as she has had horses go lame from them before so I was ok with that

Interesting observation this weekend on my horse who is late starting and have had some groundwork done. She showed at the weekend she...

I have superb hacking from the field where I keep young horses so over the last year I’ve been musing over getting a safe but fun, low...

What about training her to a neck strap/rope? For emergency stops or a please listen? If head collar fits and works normally

One thing to take advantage of is if possible get a load of ibcs and collect rainwater. Saves on water bills :)