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To me it would be a horse that moves willingly with its ears pricked forwards at a marching purposeful pace. Anything with a bit of spring in their step with the desire to jig jog and leap around a bit I would call fizzy!.

Mine takes a medium in the Equilibrium range and it fits perfect.

Just finished silaging. My partner was toying with the idea of doing some early hay. He has a few friends already in the process of doing so.

Excellent! Sure you'll have lots of happy times ahead!

Wonderful breed! I've owned 2 and ridden a fair few part breds. Very very kind and lovely with other horses and mainly level headed!. They do have a very stubborn streak and can be bargy to handle, so need firm boundaries set. They love work and are very quick learners and can turn their hooves...

Just started raining here! We so need it for haymaking next month. Havent even made our silage yet due to machinery breakdown!

Thanks for the update! Glad the blue spray has worked, its good stuff!. We use it all the time, you can spray in between their toes if you have any foot troubles, it bubbles up and stimulates the area to heal and kill infection.

Our cades have access to wheat straw, lamb creep pellets and water, and are bottle fed milk 3 x day. They range from 2-5 weeks. We throw a mineral block in if there's one going spare. Rockies do licks but they must not contain copper!. Weve only fly sprayed and dagged our ewes so far. But we...

Good plan!

No we dont know where Orf comes from either. We 'scratch' our lambs for Orf with Scabivax before they are turned out, but we still have the odd few that get it, even worse if they spread it to the ewe when they suck and give her mastitis. But least you dont have that to worry about being cade...

That sounds like Orf. We tend to spray affected areas with blue spray and it usually clears up in a couple of weeks. Careful, as it can be passed onto humans, so wash hands throughly after handling.

Cobs and Natives are ever more popular riding horses nowadays, hence the need for wider saddles? Looking at the local tack shop's 2nd hand stock with many saddles from the 80's era, it is very difficult to find anything wider than a medium!. Unless you can afford made to measure/brand new, the...

Rose grey maybe?

My broad backed pony has an older style Albion Legend GP with a hoop tree set to XXW.

I have the old style K2 GP (Legend) and it is the most comfy saddle ive ever sat in. It puts me in a really good position, so ive not had any problems.