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My hairy Fell pony has a rug on at the moment. Usually he's too hot even in just a rainsheet, but even he isnt coping now. He started...

If I knew he could get under cover it would be so different. February is the only month he ever drips any weight so that’s where the...

Welcome to the pony gang! Hope you have a lot of fun together.

I have superb hacking from the field where I keep young horses so over the last year I’ve been musing over getting a safe but fun, low...

No two horses are alike, so a second horse is always going to be different. The Jet you have now is not the Jet you had 20 years ago...

A truly horrible day here (again!) and you can see how they use it. It used to be stables along the back in a U shape around the...

with many horses and over many years I haven't had any barefeet affected by wet muddy conditions and we are in an area of high rainfall...

I think wet/dry cycles tend to bring on more abscesses. At least that has been my experience. It has just been wet....no sign of dry in...

That's interesting. Would have thought more would be prone to abscesses. Good news!

I absolutely do think his stress threshold is extremely low - for example just to scope him he required 3 lots of sedation and the same...

If it helps, my trimmer says she hasn't seen any feet that have been particularly affected by the wet, muddy conditions so far, other...

I went home during the first covid lockdown so was still very wintry and -10° temps back home. My coat that I brought felt perfectly...

I will honestly take the -32° back home right now.....(yes you read that right and js not a typo)

Guy Robertson does some handy pony type camps for all levels. He has an obstacle field and you can do that ridden or on foot.

Hi, I'm a newish rider and I'm wondering if anyone knows of low level, fun adult pony camp type things? I can see there are show...