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If you blood test your horse you may find they're low in something. I'd say generally nothing that would cause an issue but IF you're a...

'The majority of horses would benefit to some degree from supplementary vitamins and minerals' is probably more accurate than 'All...

There’s a difference between surviving and thriving (& of course horses aren’t going to suddenly drop dead because they’re not being fed...

I think there is also a difference between adequate and optimum. I'd say most/if not all horses can get adequate nutrition (especially...

How many horses have access to truly natural food though? When I had horses roaming over an uncultivated welsh hillside with trees and...

There’s grass and then there’s grass isn’t there. A postage stamp monoculture of overgrazed and stress grass with no root depth likely...

I saw this post too and I just knew it would end up here 😆

I don't want to get in trouble, so can't link the post directly, but i'll just copy and paste the main point of something I read today...

Of all the "mainstream" brands I also had greatest success with Ideal. They are nice saddles and easy to find second hand, but there are...

This may help, it's the seat shape, not just the flap cut, and it can be tricky to get the right shape to allow the knee to drop without...

I’m telling myself the hosepipe won’t have made it a wetter than it already is! At least the hose feeds off a spring, so I haven’t...

I mean, this is mad. Everywhere's different. Mine are out 24/7 and don't have mud (Suffolk, good draining land) and I don't even have...

Yep, I am too. Some nights once I've finally managed to heave the wheelbarrow through the deep mud to get it where it needs to be, I...

Oh god yes, I’m utterly miserable. Drowning in mud, horses can get out of it as top half of the hill is dry enough but I feel awful for...

Would only be worn by a certain type of horse owner 🙄. Yonks ago I used to stick L plates on a tabard when hacking out on a baby...