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'The majority of horses would benefit to some degree from supplementary vitamins and minerals' is probably more accurate than 'All...

As the owner of a forest bred 4 yo now kept on varied pasture, with plentiful hedgerows which occupy lots of his time and atm lots of...

I'm taking that statement as I read it: "regardless of use or breed" to which I respond: " utter tosh".

I’d say it’s a pretty poorly designed animal if it can’t get the nutrients it needs from its natural foodstuffs. Millions of years of...

Yes it doesn’t look good. Haven’t seen the vet yet, but my elderly gelding seems to be showing a lot of symptoms of it. Hopefully...

Well today we had the first glimpse of spring and it was glorious!! Dry all day and I hacked out in a hoodie with no coat :eek: got on...

Some Lapwings arrived here today!

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...