This sounds a bit bonkers but could he have an undiscovered abcess?
My horse was misdiagnosed as lami by the vet and it turned out to be an abcess. It sounds like yours has been going on for a while but if an infection pain could be up and down like the lameness.
When I first got my mare she was really hard to catch and I did as Goldenstar did, I walked up to her and if she walked away from me I kept walking towards her, not letting her graze the walking would be purposeful. Periodically I would stop and stand if she continued to walk away I would walk...
Mine has always had an issue with being left in a lorry even for more that a few minutes. Kicking and banging around. I used to get so worried about it and tried everything. In the end I got her on and like yours she went on no problems, got a friend to put up the ramp and I drove for 10 mins...
I was in this exact same position a while ago and I got a sharer. It took me a while to find the right person but when she came along it was great. She paid £30 a week and all the money she gave me I put into competing and training. It benefited her because she had a lovely horse to ride who was...
I bought one with a nose net for one with a pink nose but ended up cutting it off because it was irritating her nose and she was dragging her nose across the floor...silly billy....sun cream it is then!
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My pony who is 21 has been on loan to a equine college for the last year. She's been used to being stabled for the majority of the week and then going out at weekends and summer nights.
Before she went to the college she was on DIY livery and she...