Recent content by Quigleyandme

I think you’re doing all the right things. She’s a very lucky mare to have you to care for her now.

How exciting. I hope he brings you lots of joy.

I sent my horse with George Mullins so hardly bin end but it was not expensive at €400 including the gorgeous stallion box they sent to pick him up from home, custom fees and VAT. The booking and office side of things was very professional but clearly the truck meandered all over the country...

I agree with others; use a professional but if you can afford it I would urge you to not go the shared load route or at least quizz the transport company on projected route and timings. My horse was on the transport for 24 hours travelling from the company’s base in County Carlow to Gordano...

So very sorry for your loss

No swallows here yet but they generally arrive after the wild geese have left the bog to summer in Iceland which they did last week and the arrival of the cuckoo in early May.

I’m so sorry that MCC has been poorly Ratface but your vet practice sounds horrible. I could understand their attitude if you had a history of bad credit but otherwise I think it is completely unreasonable. If that receptionist had told me I couldn’t so much as sit in reception until I had paid...

I think what you have there is a sidesaddle cane and a park whip. The park whip is dainty and more of a prop than a substitute for your right leg and would only have been carried tipping around Rotten Row or similar. The usual core was whale baleen. The quills might be a later replacement or it...

Science Supplements 4Feet or Farrier’s Formula are two supplements I’ve used with great success for a TIH with woeful feet. I don’t know of a balancer specifically targeting hoof health and if that is your horse’s only issue I would be inclined to try a supplement instead. It is very wet where I...

Hello OP. Have you considered a consult with a Lantra certified bit and bridle fitter?

My son and daughter in law are vets. My son is a major in the army currently posted in Knightsbridge and my DiL is a clinical director specialising in dairy and poultry of a corporate in Gloucestershire. I’m not a vet basher. I live in the west of Ireland and my vet practice in an independent...

I know what you mean about wastage. It’s very annoying especially when prices are high or good quality hay is scarce or both. I have corner mangers that match my stables both sourced from Monarch. I buy weanlings and sell as four year olds so development of good dentition and head and neck...

SMART Saddles Native. Fully flexible, will allow for the many changes he will go through as he matures and workload increases, will allow him to develop a healthy back and will do him for life.

I have a huge ID horse. He is over 18 hands at rising five. He’s an absolute dote and has been trail hunting with my son all season. I know long-term soundness is a concern but that isn’t confined to big horses. A big horse with good conformation is better than a small horse with not so good...

I was riding my pony on Dartmoor and there behind a gorse bush I came across a man lying on a sun lounger completely naked apart from a sun hat reading the Sunday Telegraph.