Recent content by sami4971

Hello, hope you’re all having a good evening! My mare recently came down with laminitis and so her and her 5 chunky pals are currently in a fatty paddock (she isn’t actually fat, just can’t cope with the grass sadly). We’re very lucky to have an area that is good ground but bare, so they...

In my opinion, there are far worser things in life than getting a healthy horse put to sleep. I would much rather my horse have been happy and well cared for until the end than passed on to an uncertain future, to perhaps be neglected or passed around sale ring to sale ring. I am not naive, many...

I feel bad now because my tb is out in a 150g rug. Our other 13 are out unrugged and doing fine, however Rafferty really does feel the cold. He is definitely not too hot in it and is much happier so I am sure the weight is right for him, just worried about what weight rugs he will need over...

There should not be any issue with the bidding as everything is already arranged with emw. my stepdad (hch4971's partner) is bidding and initially purchasing Rose, rockysmum travelling her to the yard where she will stay until emw have completed checks on her lovely long term home. Here is...

There should not be any issue with the bidding as everything is already arranged with emw. my stepdad (hch4971's partner) is bidding and initially purchasing Rose, rockysmum

Hi, I was hoping to go to Bramham this weekend but it will be my first ever time. I have tried looking on the website but it isn't working on my computer. Can anybody please tell me how much entry is for an adult on the gate? We will be going on Saturday. Also, what is the shopping like...

:D She really is teeny, she stands under Gypsy to keep warm and hide, literally entirely under her belly! I am a very very proud mummy! xx

Thanks, we will be getting more pics tomorrow as the camera is now on charge ready to take up in the morning! I am very proud of the teeny foal my mare and colt have produced, but wish she had held on until everything was prepared! At least I had bought a bottle of pink Champagne ready to toast...

Have just spent money I shouldn't but can't resist a bargain. I had to have one of the girths, but not sure whether I got the right size :/ I figure with 13 horses ranging from 10.2hh to 17hh it will fit something!

I don't think I have ever questioned running mares and geldings together, I find it odd how some people think it is the most dangerous thing that could be exposed to their horse on a livery yard! I find that in a mixed herd, the dynamics work far better, it is much more natural than same sex...

LOL, we have bought 8 at York and Holmfirth without transport, on one occasion we drove the 20+ miles home and collected our own box, one we hired a local transporter but the others were all travelled following calls for transport made by the auctioneer. We have met some lovely people who...

another one for throwing in whole, usually in field when frozen though. However, I did used to take great delight in spending ages on a freezing winters night cutting my mares carrots to fit into her decohedran (sp) treat ball... Thank god she lives out now!

I have to say, on DIY Livery, I think liveries should provide their own tools. Whilst i'd like to think they are few and far between, there are minor thieves in the horse world who seem to "forget" that something isn't theres, and tools or other things seem to leave the yard when they do! Why...

We have 13 and a little one on the way :) Can't wait! This Spring we have 5 which need breaking in, including our lovely Hanoverian boy (Weltmeyer lines) and a LR pony. Another needs reschooling and there are two colts which will hopefully be out in the showring in hand. I can't wait to get...

I forgot about barn type beds, in which I suppose would be deep littered on straw as the bed is deep and the wet underneath would help the bed stay still. But I think in this case the base really estabilishies itself, where as if the wet is only left in a week, the base has to start from scratch...