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Thank you everyone. I have since been in touch with WHW and they are looking over photographs I have sent them. Hopefully they will be more effective than the rspca ��

There are some new horses in a paddock on a footpath where I walk my dog. I noticed their arrival on Sunday and upon closer inspection it became apparent they had no accessible source of water. On Tuesday, water still had not been provided and one of the horses was struggling to stand for any...

Thanks, he's not in ridden work but walked out in hand or ponied from another horse for 10-20 minute walks about 3x weekly. his owner has also started walking him over poles every evening. I appreciate that he needs a good quality forage but sadly I can't provide that by way of the hay. When...

Thank you. He is not ridden any more, but walked out in hand or ponied from another horse for 10-20 minute walks about 3x weekly. his owner has also started walking him over poles every evening :)

Thank you for your response, sadly he's never been a particularly good do-er. He is a cobxTB with the build of a cob and metabolism of a tb :( I'm condition scoring him based on the Henneke condition scoring system, on the 0-5 scale he would be a 2.5. When choosing the soloutions mash we...

Hi My friend's 14hh 22yo gelding has come to stay at my yard over the winter and we are struggling a bit to get his diet correct. He has cushings medicated with pergolide and can not have access to too much grass or high sugar/starch feeds. He currently lives out with my mare who requires...

Thanks everyone. She's bright, happy and healthy (and not actually underweight at all) and is still getting plenty of pleasure from living. I think this would probably be quite a dramatic soloution!

It sounds like you gave your boy a lovely life, and what a fair old age to get to at 28 :) My system for my girl sounds very similar you yours.. long may it continue to keep her happy and healthy!

I think perhaps there are elements of this, however said horse does not belong to her and she has never had a major role in her care.. therefore I don't really feel like it's my mothers decision to make.. especially not behind my back and without expressing her feelings first :) If I had my...

She is already on a diet planned in accordance with our vet.. When not on her current diet she starts to get footy and show signs of laminitis so I am reluctant to make too many changes :( That being said it would be better for her to be having fibre pellets than my other horse's competition...

Thank you for all of your help and advice guys. I will take her out to lunch and have a proper sit down talk to her about it, and see if I can get our vet to speak to her or provide some relevant articles for her to read. What worries me is that she has gone behind my back to feed the horse, and...

Thanks! She held the mare when she had her follow up blood test to check the prascend dose.. I don't know how much she payed attention to what was said though as it wasn't really an issue for her at that point. I might see if my vet will speak to her, but it does seem quite a petty thing to get...

A bit of back story: I (25yo female) rent a yard for my horses. My mum (65) keeps her young pony there too.. since she kept me in ponies throughout my childhood, and her youngster is no trouble, I have not asked for a contribution to rent. She comes down to see him 4 x per week and on the other...

Reading this with interest as my pony is in a similar situation. Had never even heard of supplementing vitamin E for cushings horses before. Which is the best supplement to use and would this still be necissary if they are already being fed a balancer like pro hoof?

Thank you for the replies. HP originally when he moved out to the field after box rest he did not have the hay, however he dropped too much weight after the first week so we added it in :)