Recent content by Phemme

If I can't get the rug on in one swing and have to resort to hefting it up and unfolding/adjusting it til it's on properly, the horse is big IMO lol but I'm five foot three, so that can include a lot of horses!

One of mine was an ex-racehorse followed by a short stint as a trekking horse, just one of 70-80 horses and treated with all care and attention that people dealing with that number of horses can possibly dedicate(not much!), and when he first got to me he was switched off and machine-like...

I think it varies depending on perception, individual sensitivity and whether someone is feeling excluded or included, or judged by a person evidently in the friendship circle. Sometimes people choose not to engage in friendship circles and then complain. Everyone knows about groupthink, so...

Experienced to me means they have strong confidence and feel capable/know what to do to achieve a particular behaviour on 90% of horses, people who have the confidence in themselves and their ability backed up by their knowledge and background and aren't going to panic, not know what to do, get...

I've always locked my things up right from the start at any place I've been, to keep people's borrowing tendencies to a minimum. I used to leave my grooming kit up on a shelf but it started walking itself all around the place and getting used for things like scrubbing the water troughs even when...

It doesn't put me off unless the owner states that only 'competitive experienced homes need apply, no timewasters' IOW, they want someone to take their horse to the top so they can use it to promote the other horses they've bred. I know plenty of very well bred horses with internationally...

At a place I was, horses had to be off the paddocks when it rained. Off the fields meant they actually had to be tied up in the hayshed because there was no stables or pens so I lasted three weeks there, having not been told about this policy before the first time it rained when my horses were...

Someone on our local one wants free bale wrap, someone offered a wool-pack full of it(we recycle it here), only to be informed the poster was after new unused wrap... Of course, why would we have thought otherwise!?! People with champagne tastes and beer budgets are always looking for unicorns...

I find 14-15hh easiest :) I'm 5ft 3". It's a matter of what I'm used to and my comfort zone. My only horse atm is 15.3hh, but ponyish in appearance(stocky, shortbacked, little feet, big hair). He felt big and fast for a fair while. I'm planning to go smaller again next time I buy a horse.

One rule is hard, but like a lot of others, I'd settle for people cleaning up after themselves. Sweep up, put things away, return all borrowed items in same condition they were supplied or better. It seems minimal, but it shows consideration for people other than yourself, and if you 'don't have...

Dorky bay gelding. He just can't help himself, he's harmless but hilarious.

I'm at the bottom of NZ with horses on my own land, so it's much the same as keeping horses at home anywhere, you make all the decisions and do all the work :) We seem to have a huge amount of repurposed racehorses, Standardbreds and Thoroughbreds, though bias against them is still fairly well...

Mine's left to its own devices because he doesn't wear/won't tolerate wearing a neck rug and it keeps his neck dry since it's so big, thick and doublesided. I used to keep my old horse's mane almost short enough to stick straight up because it improved the look of his neck line. I took him out...