Recent content by Nocturnal

I thought when I moved onto full livery I could wear things like this. How wrong I was 😂

I’m on livery so it’s not up to me, if I had my own land I’d be building all weather areas for sure.

I find the rain gets in down the shoulder without a neck. Adding a neck attachment stops it (so the spudkin is permanently in a neck these days, much to his chagrin 🥹)

How horses can be simultaneously hyper focussed on survival and also hyper focussed on finding every possible way of ending themselves.

so many memories! Cantering at a big (in my memory 😂) oxer on a rickety old cob, tiny legs flapping, thinking “I’m not sure this horse can get over that but the instructor would tell me to stop in that case…” the honest pony took a flying leap and I flew through the air like an arrow. Landed...

K&M jump… can’t wait to get something else, but pony keeps changing width… currently in an XW plate.

I must have missed the neglect allegations. Can anyone link me to what these are/who is making them?

It sounds to me like the horse is not just a machine to her, so this approach does not solve the issue. She loves the horse, not what it can do for her. I feel for her, horse sport is cut throat and the horses always get short shrift. I’ve no doubt the horse is better off staying with her, but...

Happy new year! 🥂

Can’t reply to your comment directly due to how you formatted it, but I’m sure rat catchers would complain about a lack of rats if it put them out of a job 😂😂😂

My lad’s been struggling with this, though not so much winter as summer FWS, as I think his was caused by the spring grass. It’s not been bad just grumbling on. I eventually bit the bullet and got an Equibiome analysis, though since then he’s had a course of antibiotics which predictably...

I should think it’s a more sustainable method of population control, due to being less indiscriminate. But it’s an interesting philosophical dilemma, what’s good for the individual fox (hunting ban) is not necessarily good for the species.

I reject the suggestion that concerns over religious slaughter are Islamophobia. It is concern that religious practices are being placed above animal welfare, which I disagree with. This applies to kosher, halal and any other religious practices which impact slaughter process. It is relevant...

I feel that if this was really about animal welfare there would be more concern about the fact that fox populations have declined since the ban, and efforts put in to coming up with a better solution than just shooting foxes.

Something like stress tonic from Equinatural might help him as sounds like he’s had an awful time, bless him. Hope he feels better soon!