Recent content by MiJodsR2BlinkinTite

One word to side-reins on ANY horse: don't. And certainly never ever on a youngster, especially a 3yo. There's absolutely no substitute for bringing a horse on slowly and doing things the old-fashioned way - where the rider actually has to do some work and get the horse fully engaged from...

Personally I'd be considering getting an EP (Equine Podiatrist) to do the barefoot ones you have; meanwhile if you are reasonably happy with the new farrier continue with them for a while, however if over time the quality of your shod horse's foot declines or if you are really not happy, then...

Yummy Bauble.......... ummhhh perhaps not!

^^^ Yes deffo! I went to a dealers - later done by Trading Standards - and there was the understanding that you had to have the vet of their choice. The paltry reason given was that it was "less disruptive to the horses on the yard to have the same vets doing vettings". Ummmhh, yurp, sure it...

OK...... so YOUR dog was on YOUR property, correct so far? There IS a footpath - and this is through your property? (I wasn't sure about this?) - but it was several fields away, correct again? The most important statement you make is that your dog was on a LEAD. End of. Yes your dog might...

If this is how he treats his poor horses in public - with the very real possibility of someone with a camera around - then I dread to think what goes on in indoor schools out of sight......... That poor poor horse. Obviously very green; but he just didn't present it properly, then when it all...

YO here. Small DIY affair in Devon which is my home as well. Been going for 30yrs now. In the early days I certainly had to learn on the job as I don't have any special equine qualifications. You betcha that I'm picky with who I have here as I live on-site; in all the time I've been running my...

^^^ Yeaph, this is what I'm thinking. Everyone is saying "Cow Parsley", but my hunch is it just might not be; and if the stems of it have pink blotchy patches on it then it'll be Hemlock, which is a poisonous plant. Somehow it doesn't just look right for Cow Parsley....... if the stems are not...

Just my little hairy coblet (photo pic). I don't think I could share my heart with another tbh.......... bless her.

^^^ OMG yes I've been a residential landlord and among the requisite bad-payers I also had squatters using my place as a drug-den & latrine. But I digress. As a self-employed person & YO, I can understand ANY professional service asking for something in advance just in case the client defaults...

My own experience of bitless would be to say "if it ain't broke, don't go trying to fix it". My coblet (profile pic) was/is already barefoot & treeless; and I wanted to complete the trio by having her bitless as well. So (this is a few years ago) I put her in an Orbitless, which I had bought...

We got some Astro-Turf which was being taken up from a sports pitch. We put it down in our muddy gateways a good few years back now. Yes people will throw up their hands in horror at Astro-Turf but it has fulfilled a useful function for us. I am aware there are toxicity concerns about the...

OK so speaking with the heart here whilst trying to engage the cool detached brain: not easy! My feeling is that basically at the end of the day this horse would only be worth meat-price; so I'd be inclined to offer the dead-flesh-weight to the owner and see what happens. That way he would be...

I too have stopped giving them Antlers. Following this with interest.

OK so I'm guessing that as it is ROI then this is because they are still "in Europe". In which case I thank god for Brexit. Tho' I've no doubt it WILL be coming here at some point...........