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My mare has a rock hard lump on her stifle area that suddenly appeared a month ago, she is not lame on it nor was any of the skin broken. Vet has ex-rayed and scanned and is still saying 'not seen anything like that before' which is not exactly helpful. The lump is not attached to a bone and...

My 18year TB gelding old had colic surgery at end of March this year, at Liphook, lost loads of weight and was very skinny, luckily he is fine on his own, had no problems except for boredom after week 3, so led him out more to long grass - although was very careful how much he ate, I took him...

I cannot work out yet how much water to use - either too much or too little! I have horse on box rest so cannot put pellets down to soak & dry, now putting them down under rubber mat to soak pee up, have bought 4 bags and not im[ressed, how do you use them???????

I should add that the horse has a history of stomach ulcers too. I am about to give him Acid - X which worked a few months ago, as he is showing signs of discomfort again

Thank you all so far, the ironic thing is that my best horse - useless but favourite - has just had colic surgery, and she feeds him at 5.30am each morning, although she did give him dry hay this morning as she was in a hurry!!!! strict instructions to wet anything he eats. All feeds/hay to be...

Just looking to see if I am being overly fussy as I have a horse on loan to someone in same yard, which is very convenient. Sometimes when she is away I have to look after him, but I am not happy that he is eating what I class as stale food - or am I wrong??

This might seem a silly question but I have always added water to horses feeds just before giving it to the horse, however, some people add water the night before, so they do not have to bother in the morning, which I personally would not do as I prefer to think the feed then is fresh if you add...

There are many people still happy to take on a problem horse if it is healthy. I did a rescue on a horse last May, who I turned away for 6 months, then started to get fit, a girl on the yard now has him on loan, she is fantastic with him and I could not want for a better loan person. The horse...

Just to add to previous post if Dimi (similar to name but better meaning) and Timo read this Archie is now looking fantastic and going really well, jumping and soon to start light competition work. Now a stunning horse with great temperment, they should not be allowed to own horses EVER.

I bought/rescued a horse from similar - not surprised if same people, last year, he was all skin & bone, they paid only £995.00 for him and within 4 months had him up for sale as a potential dressage horse at £5,500.00, the poor horse was depressed and starving when I managed to get him...

Last summer while I was in North Oxfordshire I was charged £117.00 for just a flu jab! The reason was that they only have a normal radius of 10 miles and my horse - at a livery yard who organised the jab - was 12 miles so a further charge for time was made. A few weeks previous, my other horse...

Echo had impaction colic, he had never had colic in his life before that. I know it is also going to be hugely expensive - no insurance either. His age is against him for any decent payouts, plus he has never had avet bill over £100 ever. I bred him. How can someone be so heartless to hand a...

On monday my horse had colic surgery and luckily survived. He is looking OK so far. Has anyone had to cope with a horse who has had this and what is the likely scenario over the next few months? He did not have any dead bits chopped out, just lots of displacement and a 3 1/2 surgery to go...

Karen Bamford has some great hirelings, I have used her horses twice now and both were very good. She cover Bicester, Warwickshire and a couple of other local hunts

I am about to full loan my 17hh TB and I can put in a clause for no hunting, I took the agreement of TDS saddlery it states in there - not to be hired out, which I have kept in the copy I typed up. The person loaning him has asked me to hunt him first as he was a rescue last year and an...