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Hi, I'm not sure which bits you want help with as it sounds completly normal to grieve a family member, pet or human. There is no time...

Hey lovely, I don’t know if this will help, and it’s a bit silly, but it helped me. I had the most amazing Welsh c mare, who I lost...

Buy baby nappies to fit your horses foot!

All my stables have a piece of scaffold board across them. Not only does it help prevent the bedding getting dragged out of the stable...

Foxes are wild animals and will always act like wild animals. Their feeding habits are irrelevant to the argument of illegal hunting bc...

In the very olden days ( older than me even!) houses used to have straw laid on the floor and would put a piece of wood in the doorway...

I still use the term set fair.

I'm very aware of that being the norm in places, however at this yard, there was no turnout. They all had a minimum 2 week break at...

Ponies didn't come into loose boxes. They were dragged in from the field, scrubbed up to be presentable, ridden then back out asap!!

Lol, even my late mother who was head girl in a competition yard with rs attached said plaiting was out of date/vogue when she was...

Ooooh yes! I remember this, a very sharp reprimand if a nice fresh bed failed that test. 😊

Same here!

Shavings were for those horses who coughed - they were looked down on! You wouldn't plait everyday, just re do when needed.

Pretty much this! The front of the straw was woven/ plaited or often just laid properly and sort of rolled back, to form an edge...

Oh yes, plaiting the front of the straw bed