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My pony has been rolling in fox poo!!!!! What is the best thing to get him clean ??

Well after hearing some much great advise, Today I changed his feed and reduced it right down, insisted he was given a different field which has much better fencing to stop him getting out and given him a really lovely workout.....he was out from 11 till 5 and I stayed watching him.....I don't...

Thank you, what you have said is what my gut feeling is telling me , hard to go against an instructor who pretty much runs the yard and has a lot more experience than me.....But I'll deal with all the issues 1 at a time.....and make sure he is back to his normal self soon...

Thank you to all the replies, seems to be the consensus to reduce the feed and turn him out / exercise more, I asked the instructor today as to reducing his feed and her answer was, keep it as it is because it's winter , he's 20 years old and losses weight easy , ...... I feel like I'm stuck...

I'm not young ,mother of 3 in my forties, but yes not very experienced. I've been riding him for a year and rode as a teenager but this is my first loaner pony, the yard has an instructor there who has been telling me what he should be eating hence the amounts I've been told and upto now it's...

Thanks, I'll reduce his feed down a bit at a time and see, do you think once we get used to the change he calm down, I also have 3 children who ride him, not much they are only small but I don't want him being like this with them..

Thank you, I can hack out with 1 or 2 others on their ponies, the first few weeks we hacked out alone he was ok, then we paired up and he got a little spooky, the next on our own and really spooky scared me quite a bit then on Saturday paired up and he was really bouncy on his feet which is a...

Do you think the more I get him out the better he will be ???? I Was never nervous with him before as he never spooked or got springy on his feet and I had hacked out lots with him...but now I'm really nervous

I have been hacking him out for 1 half once a week, jumping in the school once or twice a week and 1 day off, the other 3 days another lady has him and does some school work twice a week and again gives him another day off

He was working 6 days a week 3-4 hours I think, he is kepted stabled all the time I'm not at the yard but when I'm mucking out and spending a whole morning or afternoon up there I will put him out for as long as I can, his field is electric but this doesn't stop him if no one is watching him...

i have been going to my local riding school for a year now, riding a 14.2 Connemara gelding aged 20. Last month the riding school closed and I have taken him on, 5 weeks after having him, he has started spooking out on hacks, and last week started getting very bouncy on his feet like he just...