Recent content by MDB

My 4 year old warmblood still looks like a gangly teenager. I am also hoping she fills out this year. I think warm bloods just take more time.

Get a friend for your mare. It is lovely having horses at home. I am just up the road in Galicia and cheap horses are a plenty.

My 3 are at home on 4 acres set on top of a hill, at 600m altitude, very exposed, no natural shelter. They do have a walk in shelter. After some awful storms these past two winters and rain which can last for weeks I have now bought turnout rugs for all three. They will continue to be out 24 /...

I have just had delivered a round bale of hay which I have discovered, after the horses were at it for a few hours, is full of dried eucalyptus leaves. Slightly concerned now. How much do horses need to ingest to develop symptoms of poisoning?

My three horses are at home and I have a round pen built into a wide section on our track. It is the only flattish place I have to work with my horses in a safe area whilst keeping the others out of the way. I am currently using it for backing my youngster but I do all sorts in there. If I am...

Clicker training worked super for my mare. I broke it down into tiny steps beginning with a click and a treat for just standing still and allowing me to apprach the saddle. Then progressed to click and treat after me touching the stirrup with my hand, then foot in the stirrup, bouncing as if to...

Perhaps because it is the manner in which you come across in the forum OP. I am sure you don't mean it and no doubt you are a lovely girl. But in addition to you persistence and abruptness, comments like the one above encourage people to be quite blunt and makes it difficult to warm to you.

But you are asking a question looking for advice based on your riding ability. You ask if you are a novice rider? Then some posts later say you don't think you are a novice rider. You are clearly a novice owner. The overall consensus is do not get an OTTB for a first horse. There are a lot of...

I like what I have seen of him in his videos. He has changed his approach to some things in recent years and he says himself that he looks and does some things quite differently now. For example I was quite surprised to see a recent video of how he now addresses horses that bite by engaging...

I don't have advice for this kind of post op care, but I didn't want to read and not comment. She is obviously tough as nails and a real fighter. She has come through the worst and the vets would not be letting her home if she was not ready. She will already be feeling a million times better...

I have a Trekker Luxus and love it. It's deep and so comfortable. It holds you in on spooks, and the bar at the front which is used to asjust the saddle makes an excellent grab bar in emergencies. My mare had such trouble with conventional saddles and I notice how much more free her shoulder...

Assuming the horse is healthy and sound, this is a training issue, not an equipment issue with different bit, reins, martingale etc. He is being very disrespectful by constantly trying to eat, and down right naughty by napping etc. Knowing that you are only 15, I agree that you need professional...

I tuck my phone into my riding boots.

I have 3 mares and whilst they all have very strong personalities, I musn't be a very observant owner as I have no idea when any of them are in season. I don't notice any mood swings or changes in behaviour either in the field with each other or being ridden. So I don't quite understand the...

It's pricey but it does the job IMO. We do have limited options here in Spain, but it was much better than the rest.