Recent content by stealthninja

As title really. Im looking for someone to come out and give me lessons to help get my confidence back up as im to terrified to ride my horse :( Cheers

At the min the fields are lovely and nice and solid. They have a substantial amount of hardcore underneath the soil and grass and so far is draining really well. The river is also being a superstar, its very fast moving, and there is a flood plain the other side of the river which is lower than...

:) ha yes turn it off when in it sounds like the sensible plan! Im thinking of putting in wooden posts at the corners and in the middle of each side just give it a bit of tension which will hopefully help with the flapping around! Tobes doesn't like the wind so flapping electric fence and wind...

Oh god don't tell me that! I touched the fence one by accident slipped and grabbed for the nearest thing - never ever again! I was more worried about falling into the river :) Tobes is pretty good at avoiding electric fencing he certainly respects it but then wonder how well riding him in a...

I am shifting the ponies to a new field shortly. I would like to fence off part of it to make an arena as since having Tia PTS before Xmas my confidence has taken a real knock and I haven't even dared to ride Toby since - ive booked an instructor to come and give me some lessons she says I need...

Thanks for all your responses. If I took him, I would be assuming that as long as the trial worked out hed be with me for life. Hes been at my friends yard for 4 years, and owned by his owner for 8, so its going to be a massive upheaval for him and I want to be sure its highly likely to succeed...

Yes its a mild stiffness atm, but vet has diagnosed as start of arthritis - loosens off very quickly after taking him out, and then hes lovely. More exercise could well be advantageous for him, but then its will I take him out enough? Id also be having him having more turnout than hes having at...

I would guess yes. . I would also assume if shes not planning to seize them and sell them to cover the livery debt, then they have little resale value? Has owner(s) still being looking after them for the last 4 months?

lol. Toby (cob) is older, but as yet (touch wood) hes got no issues. Ive also got another really old one who was ridden well into her late twenties, so I know hes possibly got loads of years left in him, I just wonder with the arthritis already being there, whether he can only get worse, and...

I had my mare PTS before Xmas. It was a pretty crap decision but I think it was the right one. During the last couple of weeks ive been having a couple of lessons a week and helping out at my friends livery yard - I figured before looking at getting a new horse, I would take some time to get my...

Hmm that's a thought. Can tell im on lack of sleep :) She does the same thing with her Kwikbeet though, so I have just assumed shes being a pain in the butt (shes old enough and been with us long enough that shes allowed to do that), but maybe giving her something different to try could help...

We have an old mare who is on hay replacer (fibregy) due to lack of teeth. Just lately though she seems to swill her nose round in the buckets (she has 3 in different corners of the stable) and flip a good 50% of the food out onto the floor where she then wont eat it, because shes an idiot...

I think it depends on the horses and the conditions of their field. The cob HATES being in. He has a free access stable down the field, but in all those gales the other week whenever I went to check on him he was standing at the top of the hill back to the wind. The shettie HATES being out in...

I'm lucky in that mine have never lost a shoe yet (touch wood) but he does my friends horses as well and its always been last thing same day, or at a push the day after. .

I suspect she wont be back :)