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Thank you thats really useful to know.

Thank you. We would have about 2.5 acres per horse and its quite flat. Have you tried anything like mud control mats to protect the land at all in areas that don't drain?

There don't seem to be any streams etc there is a gully in the field but its full of weeds. It seems to just be rain lying on top of the field. Don't think its clay as not sticky mud.

I potentially have the option to buy some land. Its currently sheep grazing and is very wet. Surface water over a lot of it and slippery everywhere. Does anyone have knowledge of land drains? Do you think there are options to dry it out or is this a potential route to bankruptcy. There is no...

That is true. Id hoped to keep some reserve for fencing surface gate way etc. I just wish there was a way to get a ball park figure.

Thank you. Unfortunately the agent is less than helpful. All he's said is lots of people are looking and lots have made offers but not enough. He won't even give me a hit as to if they are over or under bidding and as its rare to find anything thats not ex mining land around here its next to...

Has anyone got experience of buying grazing land by tenure? I don't want to stupidly over pay but at the same time I don't want to miss out for one or two grand. Googling value of land gives me a range of 6k-50k per acre so thats useless. Any ideas where to start?

Thanks for the ideas folks. I had the farrier Tues night he had a good look found nothing but Joules was still hopping lame so went to the vets as planned for the scans on Wed am. either the farrier or the vet has magic hands as by the time it came for the nurse to trot him up pre scan he was...

THe other thing I found helped when ridden was to shrink my circle if he was wrong. If I brought him back to trot strait away he was getting tence and stressed and it was making the transitions less forwards. By putting him on a smaller circle he either changed himself or came back to trot by...

Make sure you have tried your horse in a similar style box before you buy one. I know so many people who's horse travels fine in a trailer but hates the sideways/backwards traveling in a waggon and don't find out till the nice new waggon is on the yard. The amount of frustration at realising the...

My ex racer has improved massively through lunge work though this was after thorough investigation and we found he has one hind leg slightly longer than the other following a pelvis injury that healed out of line so this is the cause of his problem. Lunging in the pessoa has built up the muscles...

its such a good feeling when you get going again after so long off isn't it. Mr T looked very happy about it

Hi all My horse is booked at the vets on wed this week for a scan/ x ray but he is looking so sorry for himself I wondered if any one had any ideas in the mean time. Sorry for the essay. On 19 June so just over a week ago I took him to a one day event the ground was firm but it had...

To be honest id prefer honest answers than people trying to be positive so thank you for your thoughts. tom isnt lame at the moment the vet said it was so early on it took a bone scan ultra sound and xray to find it. Im not finding anything positive about the opp so think its unlikely ill go...

some interesting stuff here my cat has always used her tray or the bath for a wee and gone outside for poo's but she has recently started using the kitchen floor! she is being terorised by next doors cat though so I wonder if it is stress. thanks for the thoughts.