Recent content by neweventer

You'll have a wonderful time - its a great experience. my advice (for all its worth) is 1) treat it as you would a big horse and set boundaries - they soon become very big 2) get it used to everything as a baby - take it places and give it experiences (not to overload it but to see the world)...

On both occasions of putting my mare into foal I didn't change her feed at all ( I suspect she was on topline cubes). She is a Warmblood and we evented her. First time she was fit from being ridden - went to stud and when she came home we carried on with ridden work. I can't remember what she...

I think it very much depends where you are in life and what you want to do. My first horse after a break from horses was 9years old. I wanted something to compete on but had a bit of mileage. That lead onto two youngsters 3yo and 4yo that had been broken. After years of work and loosing one of...

Watching with interest as I too have a rather bum high rising 3yo (May baby) who is 15.1/15.2, I just hope he makes at least 16h Both parents are 16.1

Haven’t read all the posts. Sounds like yard manager is going to make life hell. Price going up is fair enough but to get vet out and initiate treatment is another. Move yard, report vet to governing body (not sure what it is in Ireland) and sue yard manager

As someone has already said they self regulate very well. I have a veteran fell pony who for years I’ve struggled with keeping weight off- he’s always been fat. I used to weight his nets and he’d have 3 x4kg small holed nets a day and there would never be any left. This year (for reasons...

I have discovered pig oil!!! I plaster it on my horses on a weekend (I bring them in to allow legs to dry off) then cover heals and fetlock in it. The mud just roles off and her white sock is still visibly white! She’s very sensitivity to mud fever but this year an injury (mine) has meant she...

My mare tore her left fore ddft in June 2013 whilst xcing, 5% tear/hole that after plasma replacement was eventually operated on sept 2013. She box rested/ in hand walked and was back jumping disco the following summer. Unfortuently whilst having a break Dec 2014 in a fairly dry field with my...

I evented my mare at low level several years ago and she injured herself- a small hole in her ddft. She never went lame but we had it surgically repaired and got her back competing BN and disco levels ( she’s a fun horse and I’m very much an amateur so have no great aspirations). A year after...

Take it slowly! Usually you start hand walking prior to turn out so in my opinion if he's on turn out then start with hacking out in walk. My mare has done hers twice now. The first time she was operated on and we took it very slowly taking over 12 months to getting back to jumping from...

I bred for the first time this year. My mare is a 16.1 Zangershield who has fantastic confirmation, temperament and jump. I evented her and her down fall was she wasn't a galloper and being Sj bred would collect 10 strides out and showjump the xc fences. I put her to a tb who is very well known...

After a lovely few days weather wise, my little mare came in yesterday and I was convinced she was going to pop. Her 1.30am check she was a bit sweety and her resps were up and she was just very "uncomfortable". She's bagged up weeks ago and I thought it was going to be the night. Sleepless...

My mare is getting very big - due in May. I'm not sure if it was my imagination but I think I saw movement the other day. Very excited - watched to see if it happened again, but it didn't

Its the mare I worry about- she's just starting getting bigger again. Starting to look pregnant. It's odd really, when she was eventing we went through mountains of feed and yet now she's well covered. Just don't want winter and foal to take too much off her. First time breeder so little nervous

So far this winter I've not fed two out of the three of my horses, however with a potential cold snap coming, I'm starting to think about it. With the winter so far being so mild we've still got a good amount of grass- even if the paddocks are a little waterlogged in places. My brood mare is a...