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I just had my own timber stables installed including a 5x12 foot insulated tack room at the end of the hay bar. It has a window with a vent on it. What dehumidifier would you run in it to avoid mould?

also, not to be brutal, but having horses is far to expensive a hobby for it not to be enjoyable

Oh yeah totally prepared for green- I think it’s almost the only way unless you get very lucky and pay £££

Oh totally. But you get my drift- everything here seems to have pretensions to something fancier so can’t do the job most people actually want it for

One of the big reasons I’m looking at Ireland is that if they’ve hunted most of them are decent on the road and learn to stand at a gate. You would think that was the bare minimum, and yet…

Now I love thoroughbreds but having been unlucky in the past with tendons and various lamenesses etc and the fact that our other horse is a Shetland (making joint care a little bit of a headache) I just don’t want to risk it. They make cracking RC types though and I find them so much more level...

That’s really helpful thanks!

ah thanks! but I'm loolomg for something very uncomplicated. Re should you sell- I would. My last mare but one I never really gelled with- the difference with the one I've just retired was night and day. Just one of those things! Plus PREs are very sensitive.

That’s not a bad shout actually. I’m jus under 5.5 and 10 stone -ish so could go smaller

That’s very good advice, thank you!

Almost fell of my chair when I found out the prices here for a large shetland/small pony that won’t kill a small child

Yeah that’s why I’m going word of mouth route in Ireland - thanks

Quite! The prices are mad aren’t they. But everyone seems to produce stuff that’s not fit for purpose these days so good sensible types are hard to find!

Yeah was thinking around that, thanks. I’m in no rush. Second type tends to turn up in Ireland as they often have the manners but I wouldn’t buy there without the contacts I have. I did see a lovely 15.2 Connie on horsemart (in Cheshire )

There was a beautiful Irish draft mare who went for about 5k- an absolute bargain if she was as advertised (one of the straight off the boat ones)