Recent content by Nancykitt

I liked the look of the Schokemohle one but the price was just eye-watering. Someone recommended the Felix Buhler Anatomical Vision Space, which was a great price and just what little AJ needed. The absence of the throat latch worried me a bit initially but it's no problem.

I bought what I thought was a Turtle Top for Ozzy but it turned out to be a Turtle Tactio. The mouthpiecee was huge - extremely chunky! He didn't like it at all. I tried it on AJ and he hated it. Based on advice from various people on here, I bought the Expert Bits comfy barrel. It was great...

25th December Ozzy's first Highland Christmas! We've been taking Ozzy out with the other two recently (as we have another rider available sometimes) - OH has been riding him and he's been excellent! Good to mount/dismount, very good in traffic, relaxed in his mouth. He likes his new bit and he...

Something I've noticed about the arguments on Facebook is that they are about whether foxhunting is right or wrong. It's like going back in time. And in a way, it's a pointless argument because hunting foxes with hounds is illegal. I remember at the time of the hunting ban there was a lot of...

Having read the section on trail hunting, it looks like they are defining it as 'where an animal-based scent trail is laid for dogs to follow.' So how would this affect the harrier pack I went out with who, apparently, didn't use an animal-based scent but still described the activity as 'trail...

It's obviously a very sensitive topic politically. I've discussed ritual slaughter with Muslim friends (they were all fine with pre-stunning), but I've not had chance to have the same discussion recently with Jewish friends. Does anyone have further info on this?

Yes, absolutely. But if they looked at Halal, they'd have to look at Kosher too - which is arguably slightly worse as Kosher doesn't allow for pre-stunning, whereas Halal, technically speaking, does. So it looks to me like it would be relatively straightforward to say that all Halal meat had...

Over the years I participated in trail hunting, drag hunting and bloodhound packs. I never hunted pre-ban. My favourite, by a long chalk, was the bloodhound pack. Hunted with the same pack for three seasons and those days were amongst the very best of my life. The drag hunt followed an...

Thanks so much for this - it certainly chimes with Ozzy, who'd had lots of stability for years and was then moved around (long journeys too!) over the space of a few weeks. We think Ozzy has spent a lot of time on his own in the past - so not only did he have multiple upheavals (including his...

Sending our very best wishes your way. ❤️

I know it was about 6 years ago now but I knew someone selling a superb all-rounder Clydie for much, much less - it was happy to hack, hunt, show, riding club stuff and had also done some prelim & novice dressage. I'm not sure what the horses at CHH do apart from go out on the rides...not that...

They're selling at least one, a 12 year old Clydie for £13k. Sounds like quite a lot to me but I'm prepared to admit I'm wrong, I don't know a great deal about the going rate for these horses. Also selling two foals for what seems like quite a lot. IIRC the main reason they went to the now...

'Heavy rains are flooding fields and buildings, hay is expensive, feed is expensive...' Er, yes, I think that the vast majority of us are experiencing these same issues. And many of us are working hard to fund our horses - which we keep by choice - without expecting strangers to prop us up...

If they can show that the donations are being spent on 'expenses' (hay, feed etc) then these would normally be offset anyway so I can't see why they would be taxable - but I can imagine that it's complicated! What I can't understand is that when I had lessons on my instructor's riding school...

I was thinking about this...we all know that keeping horses, especially the larger ones, can be incredibly expensive. But this is a business, charging relatively high prices for rides - not to mention selling some horses, which would certainly generate income. Does any other equestrian...