Recent content by southerncomfort

Thanks for all the replies. All been very helpful. So we finished the course on Wednesday (never putting me or him through the equi haler again!). He can now walk, trot and canter across the field without coughing, but will cough once or twice after eating his bucket feed. I'm new to this...

In his summer clothes.

Black ponies with short legs and ample backsides are the best! 😀

Happy new pony day! 😀 Bet you're bouncing off the walls with excitement this morning!

I'm not as knowledgeable as other posters, as I've only lived here for 8 years. Agree with PAS that Silkstone Common and Cawthorne are lovely and very horsey, so you might be lucky with finding separate land to buy or rent. Silkstone would be more expensive than my area (HD9). Lots of pretty...

I pretty much spent all day with him today, and he's actually only coughing when he decides to have a hooley. So really that is an improvement. He's still got another 4 days on it, so hopefully he'll keep improving.

Yes, i think that's what we'll be doing in future. I was reading an old thread about the Equi-haler and some posters had needed to use a second one! 😬

I'll look in to that. I'm rapidly running out of funds so I need to decide carefully what to do next.

No, not scoped. I'll speak to the vet on Monday. I feel like I need to understand why she she prescribed this particular one. I'm worried that he needs a course of steroids to really be rid of it.

Feeling very, very low. Bo has been such a good boy with his Equi-haler. We've followed the instructions to the absolute letter, but it hasn't helped at all. He's still coughing. £300 down the drain. I've also tried giving him antihistamines. Nothing is stopping the cough. I'm now getting...

I have a very hard to fit Fell pony. I tried so many treed saddles, particularly ones aimed at natives, on him and he was unhappy in all of them. I was a treeless sceptic, but turned to a Ghost saddle in desperation, mostly because i know of a few people who use them on their Fells now. He...

My Fell is rising 10 this year, and it definitely wasn't until last year that he finally looked like the finished product as it were. I've always taken things very slowly with him and didn't start jumping him properly until last year as his frame just didn't look mature enough.

That's not good TP. I'm sure that must have made a traumatic situation, where you know what the outcome will be, far more difficult. When my old girl started having full blown seizures, the vet said 'we could give her a course of steroids if you want, but in all honesty they won't do anything...

Another one here that always wears a CO skull cap.

Anything other than boggy ground or steep shaley hills. But i have a Fell pony who is an absolute ATV!