Recent content by Nik90

I think you’re right about the number of options Ester, it would appear I actually picked up graze-on not readigrass! The dengie one seems good, I have tried it & he will eat it, I am just so suspicious of dengie feeds after finding large chunks glued together with molasses in a bag of good...

Thank you for taking the time to reply. Hopefully the fact it’s less work for him to chew will make it more enticing despite being damp. I already feed a cup of Charnwoods Linseed a day in his meals and copra in the winter. The Linseed really improved his skin & coat. He’s not food orinentated...

It looks like my gelding will need a little more help this winter as he has worn his teeth smooth, otherwise he has a healthy mouth for a 22ish year old. I was planning to start by introducing 1 kg of readigrass chaff each evening and see how we go from there. I was wondering if this should be...

I used to feed only hay and/or grass but as he's aged he is no longer holding his weight as well as he ages and has poor quality skin & digestive problems. He is now fed as a result unmolased sugar beet, copra, linseed and grass chaff. This contains a balancer, digestive & joint support. He eats...

He has huge legs so I am limited to those that come in a big enough size. I use brushing boots and over reach boots on his back legs when he is moving close as these are the most effective at covering the areas he clips. I've had to try a few to find ones he will tolerate. I also have turnout...

My gelding was diagnosed with stifle arthritis 10 years ago. He was managed initially by changing from schooling to hacking only, no tight turns. I also leave him turned out as much as possible and try to keep him in at least light work (walking with the odd trot or canter if he feels like it)...

I prefer no neck but sometimes the weather can be too horrible to send them out like that so any replacement rugs I've bought have had detachable necks so that I can have the option. It's always no necks when stabled unless sever minus temps where the water buckets in the stables have frozen...

I bought rubber mats from the tack shop and just laid them down and I haven't had any issues. My gelding is very wet and likes to dig up his bed so was scrapping his hocks on the concrete. Can't have done his old joints much good either. I clean the stable over the summer and wash the mats with...

Ours are kept on this routine though we don't bring them in until the weather turns nasty at which point they're normally happy to come in for a break. One has a thick shavings bed on the back 2/3 and the front is rubber matted. The other one has the full stable rubber matted and wood pellets...

I have a tabard or gillet, both are yellow and worn with a contrasting pink top. Hi viz breeches, yellow hat band with reflectors or waterproof cover depending on weather, stirrup reflectors and exercise sheet on the horse, summer one is yellow and orange, winter is yellow. I have been told I...

Thank you both for taking the time to reply. He can thankfully still eat hay or haylage & doesn't quid, however he finds the grass far more interesting (over 30 acres for 2 horses so last quite a bit into the winter). The veteran vitality has helped with his weight but it seems it's not quite...

After a fairly good winter of my gelding holding his weight & being mud fever free, this has now changed in the last couple of weeks. After being tested for a few things & coming back negative the vet feels that he needs better nutrition. Currently he has about 800g of veteran vitality, 200g...

If I was you I would keep the rug and buy a spare. One of my heavy weights survived 9 or 10 years with being professionally washed, re-proofed & repaired after the end of each winter (It wouldn't fit in a regular washing machine and I can't sew so I had to send it away). The horse was living out...

This is the first winter mines has been on veteran vitality & I'm also impressed with it. It picked his weight back up after he was ill & I will need to cut back before the spring as he's doing so well on it

I use Protexin for my gelding, the only thing that dried him up.