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Hoping you get some answers, whichever way they may sway 🤞

Not defeat at all! As much as we've love to dance around singing about how our horses could walk barefoot over a bed of nails without flinching, reality is different! I started using a pair of Scoots on the fronts for mine last year, we'd started riding across some very stony, flinty ground and...

No bars here either, stresses my mare right out to have no say in whether or not she wants company. If she wants to be chatty, she pops her head out the door.

They're rife here in Exeter!

Much prefer my own company. Can go where I like/where ever takes my fancy, as long or as short as I like, as fast or as slow as I like, change plans etc.

My 6yo was horrible coming out of this winter. She had the winter off, but her general attitude was suddenly pretty crap, and she'd discovered the two legged waving technique. Had osteopath, vet check, bloods taken, ovaries scanned, all sorts, all came back clear. Then, same as SEL, about a week...

Vaguely relevent example, I was having an awful time with Angular Cheilitis last year. Had it for months, nothing I got from over the counter even touched it. I did some digging, and it can be caused by lack of vitamin B2, which is commonly found in eggs and dairy, two things I can't eat. I...

Get the horse on a weigh bridge, get yourself weighed including tack, clothing, helmets etc, and then do the sums from there. Recommendation seems to be around 15% of the horses weight, and no more than 20%. Bear in mind he's only 5, so still developing and growth plates still fusing etc...

Oh christ! Bet that was unpleasant! To one up us both, my friend had a wasp fly down the neck of his jacket and proceed to sting him all over his chest, stomach and back. Lucky the dude isn't allergic, he was very sore 😬

Took a cockchafer bug to the face once when riding a motorbike, bloody hurt!

Another one for the 'lots and lots of horse pipes' approach. We didn't have amazing water pressure, but it still worked to get water where it needed to go without any backbreaking lifting and shifting. I've left a yard in the past due to that issue.

The practice I'm with have regained access today, it's running slow apparently but at least it's *something*!

This is the one I used last year, or rather, the one that didn't get constantly removed by houdini pony! It did rub the bridge of her nose a bit, so I sewed some padding on there which worked lovely.

IT Infrastructure here, we would be b*llocked within an inch of our lives if something like this happened and it wasn't back up and running on DR within 4 hours. I wonder if CVS have ever bothered with Penetration Testing 🤔

Slight sidebar, but you said he managed to break your hand as he pulled away. I'm sure you weren't doing so, but just in case you were (or anyone else who happens to find this thread does), please never wrap the lead rope around your hand, even loosely in a large loop, for this exact reason...