Recent content by nettle

Is there shelter from trees, hedges etc? If they can’t get out of the wind they can get very unsettled.

It’s interesting that a lot of the fb accounts posting in favour of CD don’t appear to be active in the same time zone as the UK. Or maybe it’s just FB being weird.

Given that the person was taking the BHSI exam and failed to notice to riders crookedness and sitting off to one side, I think the ‘tone’ of the comments is least of the problems. There is far too much bad riding going uncorrected these days.

If you are going to start in hand, the Oliver Hilberger book is really good. https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9783861279648/Schooling-Exercises-Hand-Working-Suppleness-3861279649/plp

There’s one in my local town. I will make a point of dropping in and informing the staff of why I won’t be shopping there. Politely, of course, it’s not their fault the company owner is an arse.

They are horses, not tropical butterflies. They are wearing fur coats! They’ll be fine.

I don’t have any writing on mine. I want the drivers to be looking at the road ahead, not distracted by reading.

Some vets can be remarkably clueless over colours. I’ve seen a horse that was a wishy washy chestnut, chestnut legs and no dark colour on ear tips, and because the mane and tail were really dark the vet insisted it was bay! Probably had ND1 as it had a dorsal stripe?

I’ve done this too; in a rear facing lorry so horse sat back on his well upholstered behind. Only had to do it twice and at a very low speed. He stopped pawing immediately.

My horse had been diagnosed with navicular at 7, went to Rockley Farm, rehabbed, came sound, back into work. Stayed sound barefoot and in work for years then went lame again. MRI at a different practice, same changes to navicular and had not progressed. Vets s opinion was that these changes were...

I’ve used those Easy grazer muzzles on two horses. No problems, apart from the cost.

Horseware Amigo fitted our very narrow Welsh B

Swish rugs are really good.

What made you try the calming cookies in the first place? I’d suggest whatever was winding her up that made you try them, is still bothering her and the cookies aren’t working?

That’s a pretty short rib cage. Will there be room for the length of saddle you need on his back? I’ve seen a fair few ex racers that can’t take a 17.5 saddle.