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    ForagePlus Pre/ Probiotic

    I have been feeding my boys Forageplus premix pre/probiotics for the last 12 months or more. I went to reorder today and they have stopped selling it, gutted as the boys ate it and I felt that is was good for their guts. Now on the hunt for a replacement but the web just blows me away with the...
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    My horses condition score has went from 3 to 1

    When I moved my horse he went really stressy and lost weight even though his field mate moved with him, I had bloods done and it was his liver, a good treatment of Vit E was all he needed I followed it up with a some ulcer treatment.
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    Proud dog owner moments

    My girls are my world and make me smile everyday but when this happened I melted. I have a very barky nervous rescue, when my father had a heart attack last year my OH and I got in the car with the girls (dogs) and hit the road for the 5 hour plus trip. During the trip my father died. When we...
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    Organising rugs

    Clear plastic boxes the the weight, size and colour of each rug written on the outside. two horses two sizes but I match the weights together so I have a boxes for 100, 200, 300, stable etc
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    What saddles do you all have on your TBs?

    Goodness, my boy has a variety of saddles jump/GP and dressage. The one I have now was first fitted to him as a four year old and still fits now (adjustable) has been regular every 6 months checked and tweaked but still amazing and comfortable. It is a Monarch. dressage wise the Fairfax always...
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    Buying a youngster from the field

    Yes mine was purchased from the field, in fact the only time he had been removed was to be gelded then put back with the herd.
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    Horses behaviour issue. And hay

    Unfortunately, the horse is real and she or her parents own it. When the first thread went up I recognised the horse details. It was my friend that passported him and gave him his name. In the other thread with the picture of him riding Prelim that was when she owned him but the lady in the...
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    Horse price help

    Sorry but you should not add the label school master, school master at what?, £1.5K max far too many issues to be worth anymore but if you can cope with them all then worth it
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    Very Sudden head shaking - pollen

    My saint of a horse last week started to shake his head out on a hack not much but enough for me to comment to my friend. So thought I would pop a nose net on as they are cutting the fields. Last Sunday rode with a friend set off and he was really unhappy stopping to rub his nose and tossing his...
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    Volvo as a tow car

    Yes I tow with my XC60 D5 a 505 with my 16h in have towed from Bucks to Lincoln with both boys in, brilliant car never struggles to pull
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    Dressage despair!

    Not to derail the thread but I have the polar opposite, but I feel your pain just the same. When my boy is good he is amazing but mostly he is bad and our scores slump. At home he is amazing forward and fun, same in the warm up the moment we trot up the long side I feel him backing off. He backs...
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    Really struggling with a bit for my New Forest

    I have had two recommend bit people to my 6 year old. Both where excellent first time horse was 4 and we found one that he liked but he suggest that the saddle was not helping. Changed the saddle and also the bridle to a horsemanship one. Roll on two years and I felt he was not happy again. A...
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    Youngster advice please!

    Hey, my now 6 year old WB was always great to hack on his own but this last month or two he has been quite spooky and nearly anything. So I believe that what Purbee has said would be the case as I know our grazing is low in Mag anyway as it was checked. @PurBee may I ask a questions please. I...
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    Dog walking etiquette

    I leave it on a over grown verges or under a hedges (never outside someone property) as better then bagging up and putting in landfill. But anywhere else, no I pick it up even on the grass tracks around our local fields. I would ask my dog to walk on in causing a dog to be worked up in side.
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    horse isnt turning properly

    To be very clear. She HAS NOT purchased this horse from my friend. It has been passed on since she had him.
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