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So just to give you guys a bit of an update, Went to the yard and arrived to a box of chocolates and a bouquet of flowers with a sorry card attached and a very sheepish yard owner who had a lot of apologising to do. Cutting a long (4 hour) chat short she had had one of her heavily pregnant...

So finally got some sense out of the woman, apparently she only weaves at feed time and when getting near to turn out time. As of yesterday she is now living out full time with two others at a field a few miles from the loaners yard where she spent last summer and is apparently full of the joys...

Well if it's money she's after she won't get a penny from me, as a disabled student working 2 jobs to make ends meet I'm the definition of broke 😂 I'm trying to arrange to go see her, she's roughly 7 maybe 8 hour drive from me at the moment, hopefully I can either work with her to find out...

I am worried too. as i understand it she lives out with two other brood mares although she may have been seperated from them now, Im hoping that once she (the loaner) has had a chance to calm down that we can talk about this rationally and i can go see her and my mare and help get to the bottom...

Thank you for that, truly made me laugh out loud which I sorely needed after that phone call. And thank you for the support, much appreciated:)

Sounds exactly like the TB mare we have at our yard, she had a hugely tight crank noseband when she arrived and the new owner couldn't get it tight enough to stop her doing it so she chucked it and went for an Australian cheeker noseband and she's been perfect ever since, she had a couple of...

Hi, After retiring my mare from ridden work 4 years ago last year we looked into loaning her out to be a brood mare for surrogacy as she's a big warm blood with x good confirmation, temperament and super easy to work with. We partnered with a vets practice who run a breeding programme and in...

So the MRI has come back and she Synovitis in both front legs, present in the feet and fetlocks of both. she is booked for injections next Friday the 7th and remedial farriery is booked for tomorrow morning and then i guess we'll go from there

This video in its entirety at just short of 90 minutes(full hd - my mum got a new toy) has gone with her to all the vets she has been to, including Liphook and Bell Equine and been emailed to lameness investigators at Newmarket along with a video of her as she is now and no vet has come back...

Sadly we play the waiting game now anything between 5days and 3 weeks

Hi guys, she eats everything from the ground just in case ;-) When she's in (during the day)she spends a good deal of her time snoozing lying down - she has a big lush straw bed to lay in and i quite often join her for a quick nap Forgot to mention that ive had my grass, soil and hay tested...

Hi Pearlsasinger - great name, love it she's on as much hay as she wants and a carrot/apple 2x a day as she has an ulcer supplement (a side effect of one YO's version of managing a horse who won't turn out) I'll have a look into acupuncture and seewhat my vet thinks and if he can...

Hi Hollyandivy, Ramblings are more then welcome and some good points there too i hadn't thought of autoimmune She's KWPN her father is Quickstar but other then that we don't know, no brChristmaslas recorded in her passport, she did once have pink papers but that was way before my friend...

So my poor mare has been through the mill since i brought her i early 2013 and we have only had a year of happy healthy horse since then. She is 17.1 and only 8yrs old. She was 15.3/16hh when i brought her and only a 6 3 rug (now 7ft) She is now lame on 3 legs after 14 mnths of she's not...

Hi all, Recently worked with an equine behaviourist from intelligent horsemanship, worked wonders on my mare but has suggested I get my grazing tested to check its not giving her a headache, as she and many others refuse to settle out there. Has anyone done this before, how do I go about...