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I think hireings are a fab idea, when you compare the cost of buying a ready made hunter then keeping it, a hireling has to be a no brainer for people with little time/inclination to buy their own - or only want to hunt every now and again......

Agreed ha ha, thank you very much !!

Hi, Guildford, Dorking, Epsom areas.....one can dream :)

In case of anyone knowing of anything, I am looking for a small private yard for sole use in Surrey if anyone hears of anything. Sane owner and nice horses x3. Thank you :) I know these are super rare but you never know !

Durdans is good if you are still looking :)

If you have pots of cash you could look in to regenerative joint medicine like IRAP. Can be touch and go if it works and I think about 500 pounds a go - depends if you have money to spend. And perhaps try a good joint supplement, I am using Joint Active by YuMove by Lintbells with Green Lipped...

I'd say about 180 per month, we are in Surrey and that is about the going rate for a retirement type livery set up where the horse is out 24/7 but everything is done for you.

Oh I am so jealous, I would absolutely love to have my own place with sole use :) would be a dream. Good luck !! Just make sure any one you take in with you is sane, getting someone in can be easy, getting them out can be very hard !!

Intra articular cartilage

I have a few listed here in the Midlands :) hope it helps ! http://www.ponypatters.com/hunter-hireling.html

Hi there, I wondered if anyone had any experience with cartilage damage in the front hoof and what they did to help? I am looking at various supplements at the moment and considering a coffin joint injection. Does anyone have any experience with this sort of lameness? I have also been looking...

Hi, I have had two friends with hind splint fractures (one particularly bad but in a very young horse) and both are now sound, did take some time to heal, in the region of 8 months. They are both absolutely fine now. Was obviously very sore and lame to begin with, but in the grand scheme, it...

I have Cavallo sports boots on my TB type, they work well although they do look to be dying after about 9 months although I did get them on ebay with some light prior use :) overall they are good.

I have been thinking about this also for one of mine and it got me to looking at new supplements also. He is barefoot and this has definitely helped but he is still slightly lame, so was thinking to try a joint injection as well as a new supplement. I have just written a blog on it here, but...

'Toasty' is subjective I might add......as in my horse is at a good temperature and not freezing his behind off in the snow at -6