I only buy off Facebook if I know the person, I know that one of my friends definitely knows the person or I can go and pick it up myself. It¡s full of scammers!
Our local has numerous available as companions only but none that could/ are ridden. I have a friend that has a horse from them and happily rides it (and he does the job of gentle happy hacker very easily) but they were horrified when they found at as was rehomed as a companion and they...
I have a filly with uveitis who lives out. To be fair, we have removed the affected eye, but I am careful to manage her as if the other eye was affected too. She has her UV mask on during the day but I would not be comfortable leaving it on 24/7, especially with mud sticking to the mesh...
I also didn’t have a happy outcome from a similar sudden onset of those symptoms. For mine it was most likely a tumor somewhere, but we didn’t run further diagnostics. I gave the the best grass I had, tried to get her to eat anything she thought was worth eating but unfortunately she...
The foals were not ‘excited’, they were stressed.
And everything will be fine, until it’s not fine. My OH (an equine vet) put down a foal last week who had flipped itself over a fence whilst its mother was taken out. You don’t want to know the details of what it had done, but it happened in a...