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This would be a great pity were it to come about. I think it might, greed is powerful motivator. Kempton has never really been a fashionable track, but very popular with ordinary folk who just like watching racing (and having a bet). I lived not far away for a while and we would often go, only...

There's a pony here with Cushings. He was diagnosed after showing mild laminitis signs, aged 12. His hormone levels were ten times what they should have been so he must have been brewing it for a while yet he had none of the classic symptoms (apart from being a bit footy one day). What he did...

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I'm sorry for your loss x I will undoubtedly be facing the same difficulties soon as one of the ponies here is ancient. It's a big change and not one you'd have chosen.

When I wanted a companion to my big pony I knew I would need something with as much attitude as the big pony. I ended up with a small pony who is utterly unsquashable, physically and mentally. He was smart enough to learn very quickly how to keep out of the way until he'd worked out just how far...

I have two oldies here, they are a bit quiet but I think that's because they are getting a bit more to eat as I'm slowly opening up the foggage area. I just opened a new patch this morning and they both galloped off to eat it. If they are still excited about food then I think they are OK...

Thank you Abacus, I will do that.

I have been wondering about this for the ancient pony that lives here. He has four turnout rugs, none are more than 100g fill I should think*. I wondered if I would need a larger rug to go over the top, should I need to double up rugs if it gets really cold. I do have a rug of the next size up...

I did this for years and hated it, especially poo picking. I found a headtorch was useful for poos on the grass but when they pooed in the mud it wasn't easy to see what was poo and what was mud. As for poos done in the drifted up fallen leaves, forget it. So about this time of the year I'd...

I think you'd know by the smell of the poultice you remove if there is pus still coming out.

1998 was my first year of horse ownership (I too am in SW). That autumn we had nearly 100 days in a row of rain. We do sometimes get a lovely dry frosty spell before Christmas but then it's nearly always rain through to Spring, unless it snows of course!

I think hypnosis might help you here. I have suffered crippling anxiety, to the point where I gave up riding for a while. Hypnosis did help me to get it under control for a while. Now I am post-menopause I no longer give a f*^& and have taken it up again. I do still get worried by things but not...

Mine like theirs to smell of pee. It's always the first thing they do when they get a squeaky clean bed, have a giant wee in it. I think if they had scented they would be very mistrustful of it all!

I've been riding other people's horses recently, so a variety of them. I really like one little mare. She's a nice chunky cob and about as wide as she is tall. Feels like I'm sitting on an armchair! She has steady paces but is not above getting a bit excited and going for a good run. She has...

I can't get on the Decathlon website on this computer, it is a very old computer and I think the website doesn't like that. Most frustrating! I've looked at all the other recommendations, many thanks for those, but I am not sure about any of them tbh. I am going to try out my thermal Primark...