Recent content by VickyH

I don't come on here much but the few times I've asked for advice you have all been so supportive and kind. I recently asked for advice regarding side bone and ringbone as my mare was lame on and off depending on the ground and work level. I have since had the vet out and we are bringing her...

If you can get a copy of friday ad from the 15th june I believe there is a coupon/voucher for free entry for 2 people on the saturday. I can't find a copy but you may have more luck! My friend is riding in the barrel racing challenge at the end of the day :-) Good luck!

At my previous yard we had a horse with a chronic pollen allergy, do you know exactly what yours is allergic to? Different pollens peak at different times of the year and as mentioned above oil seed rape is around this time and is very common. Unfortunately if your horse is only taking shallow...

Thanks Nicky, hard to see but Lotties looks to be higher and smaller than your boys :-/ I can't think what else would be causing such random on/off lameness and it does seem a coincidence that as soon as the ground hardened up she went lame again :-( Thank you all for your help advice, and...

i can defnately feel it, it's on the outside of her pastern, roughly were an over reach boot would sit if that makes sense. Thank you waltzing mathilda xx Did you feed any supplement to help your mare?

Thank you xx She was quite pigeon toed one of her previous homes apparently and her feet were pretty rubbish when I got her but they look great now. She also has an old tendon sheath injury but the vet has said it's not this causing the lameness as it is quite sporadic lameness not consistent...

sorry should have added she is lame in front and has front shoes only, farrier advised not to barefoot completely as she is a bit flat footed in front.

My mare has either ring bone or side bone - a previous owner told me the vet diagnosed one but my farrier thinks the other :-/ Either way once the ground is hard she suffers on and off lameness, all the time we had soft ground she was fine but with this glorious weather bringing hard ground she...

I am looking into trying my mare on cortaflex and from what I've read I will be better off trying cortaflex HA but what is the difference between the green top and the yellow top one?? My mare has a history of going lame from time to time for no apparent reason, it was looked into in her...

We brought our new girly home on sunday :-D She stayed in for the day as weather was awful, monday morning we took her over to the school and rode her and she was fine, when we'd finished we turned her out as weather was quite nice. My partner and daughter went to get her in later and she was a...

we've just bought a new mare with a cluster of small lumps, like fly bites, on her back as baker190 has described. Her old owners said they were caused by sweating too and that they would disappear eventually. Baker 190 has your horse had the same bumps for a year? I was worried as our mares...

Big thanks to Kelly1982 for helping us find my daughter a new horse finally! We pick Meg up tomorrow morning :-D

As soon as I saw the photo I knew that was Kent Horse Producers, all their photos are taken in the same place! :-) I've heard good things about them so can't see why they'd be trying to do anything dodgy, maybe it is one of their own personal horses if you know what I mean.

Two years ago when my daughter out grew her 12.2 we had to sell her, which was tough, but on top of that my partner was made redundant meaning we had to cut down to 1 horse. My mare at the time was the stereotypical chestnut mare, fine one day doolally the next! Way too much for my daughter...

yep, I always add to my horses feeds anyway but he used to have an extra glug!