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Seems to be normal practice to crowd fund when she comes against things as it has done it before for her horses colic bill. Aside from...

On a purely emotionel level, I feel sorry for a young person who has worked very hard and developed a bond with horse, but can't afford...

I suspect it's heavy because it's doing its job & soaking up all the wet.

Another vote for Julia at Yourhorseisyourmirror.com

Granny?

Gosh sometimes I feel like a right wally pushing myself through yucky personal circumstances to get a job and earn my own money so I can...

Fools and their money...

I’m shocked that there are that many stupid people who have actually donated

1 week on and they are definitely improving. I used the Snowfire religiously at the start of the week and used 2 pairs of socks to go to...

this is what I call quartering too.

I read all the ‘old school’ horse care books and pony manuals as a kid so I grew up with all the old terminology. Set fair a stable, a...

Yes, terrierliz! I was also taught to ‘quarter’, as in fold back the front left quarter of the rug, brush, fold back down, fold forward...

Set fair, a good thing to do and a nice term for it. Do people still say this?

Quartering. Leaving rug on part of the horse to keep it warm whist grooming. Tail cut neatly horizontal at the bottom is a bang tail...

I often use the term "hot ragging" when I hot cloth a clipped horse and people often ask me what I mean as they have never heard of it...