Recent content by Patches

Only just seen this. I have a rising 6 year old by him. Her name is Matilda, Tilly for short. We bought her unbacked nearly two years ago and she was a doodle to back. She's got the sweetest nature, such a poppet. A pleasure to do. Conformationally I would say her biggest...

Personally I think the later pictures that the poster posted of Ruby show the bit far more clearly and it doesn't look like a pelham, in the usual sense, in those pictures and neither does it look "wrong" to a first impression. Clearly Ruby is happy in this bit, as is the poster, and to have...

I'm guessing because a loose ring, straight bar snaffle isn't permitted in the showing classes that the poster uses the Belton bit for? I've read the replies and seem to have come to an uneducated assumption that the bit is for horse that don't actually like the action of a pelham but need one...

I think you mean Harvey let you sit under his bum!!! He doesn't wait for invitations, he insists his place is on someone's lap. :D I am hoping we'll have silaged before the end of July, second cut, so I should be free to come along. Will look forward to it. :)

He makes the back of the chairs look like super soft memory foam mattresses. lol

Of course! ;) He does have a favourite place to lie though, which is a bit annoying. With Bess, our farm Collie, enjoying walkies over the farm. With my friend's yellow lab, Alfie over our farm again. More gratuitous pics

Hopefully this year! Just to be "bribe" the planners as we have an issue over the facilities they expect us to provide for such a small set up of three kennels....namely a fully functional kitchen with hot water/heating/washer/dryer etc! Makes me laugh as I could wash feed bowls in the house...

Hi all. Just a gratuitous picture of Harvey, for those who remember him. :D

Duggan - I know no-one said the horse was a welfare case or that the horse must have xrays and nerve blocks etc. I was merely trying to convey that we're talking about a very slight lameness that isn't causing the horse any great discomfort at all. Given that there appears to be no obvious...

I wasn't attempting to incite an argument. ;) The point I was trying to make is that from my own experience, with different vets, that most of them would suggest to bang the horse up in the stable for a week and see what it's like then. That's all that's ever happened with me initially upon...

I think many, many people (myself included) would have done the same thing as the OP if they're honest. It's certainly not a question of not caring about your horse at all. I don't run to the doctor if my nose runs or my feet ache....I take some tablets and hope it goes away. If it doesn't, I...

Bit harsh Duggan as that's not what the poster is asking people to do at all. I know J personally, she's a very good friend of mine. Having watched her go though a year of despair and stress with her old horse....which ultimately ended in grief when she lost him (despite spending many...

I can confirm that J has taken Murphy off the bute and he is now on box rest on a deep shavings bed. I would say he is no more than 1/10th lame, certainly not remotely hopping by any stretch of the imagination. The vet has seen this horse four times since J had him. Once to vet him, two...

I was B_H_W's hacking partner on Saturday and yesterday. We met up and came back to our farm for J's first ride in open fields since she bought him. He trotted sound in our fields and we had a lovely, steady canter together. No hell for leather gallops, no slipping and sliding and both...

I wasn't suggesting they had a statutory right of entry. When they were called to reports of us preventing a pony from eating, I invited them on to the property, without any prior appointment, and happily showed them around to see Dinker in his greenguard muzzle. I saw no reason to become...