Recent content by maxedup2

May I suggest that if a person was stood with a yellow flag , it may have been their role to be a "marshal" - i.e. to warn passers by that a shoot was about to start . The fact that they just laughed at the question as to whether they were dog training merely illustrates the contempt & lack of...

Have tried talking reasonably to the "new breed" of shooters,. They just paid lip service to it. Tried to work with them to get a timetable off them so that I could avoid their "times" to turn my young horses out . Caught them "beating" on MY land -obviously without permission. I'm not against...

I had similar problems with a local shoot all winter last year ! A shoot negotiated shooting rights on the land of a farm next to my yard. I was effectively surrounded, with "drives" taking place north, south, east, & west of me all day long on shoot days. Over last Christmas, shooting took...

Highly recommend Claire Fitzmaurice at All Saddle Solutions. I have a 6 yr old who was changing shape. Claire has done a super job fitting a saddle and her saddles are adjustable as the horse changes with work. I was even more impressed by her reasons for becoming a saddle fitter, she had...

I had a similar problem. Once I got rid of the infection with hibiscrub and antibiotics I used E45 cream which worked a treat. It got the skin back into proper condition. Had some success with sudocreme but the E45 used regularly and liberally, as though you were treating chapped hands, really...

I would be very wary of loaning my horse if she was doing medium! In fact I think you want a sharer really as she will still be stabled where you are now, I presume? As you still intend to ride her , would you only want someone else to ride her under your supervision? You would have to be very...

Shoes numbing the pain?! Horses diet ?!? Perhaps you just need more of the facts before you make assumptions. Firstly the pain can be judged by the pulse in the fetlock and the horse was not shod until this came back to normal. Also full x-rays were taken of the foot concerned both before and...

I was persuaded to go barefoot with my horses and one of them ended up with laminitis too! I totally blame the barefoot system. I have had him since he was 3 , now he is 14 and I had never had any trouble with his feet until going barefoot. I had the vet and the farrier out straight away and...