Recent content by wildhorses

Ringworm can be a problem but often it can be easily treated if caught early enough. In your situation I would was the horse in an antifungal shampoo or treat the area with imaverol just to be careful. During the summer my horses face went bald, not just patches, almost completely bald...

For the third time, they were sent away as my employers disagreed with the routine.

I think you've misunderstood my post. I certainly do not work at a substandard yard and as I said in the original post, we do not dope our yearlings at all for prep. I thought that was the norm. However after having two to do for a larger consigner I found out that this was not the case. In this...

I too was shocked to learn this was standard practice. It was horrible for it to be insisted that the horses were doped. I had taken on one of the colts as mine to do. He had very little handling when he came, so was a bit tricky and there were difficult moments but in the three weeks he was...

I'm currently at Tattersalls yearling sales and most of the horses here have had some level of sedation. I can kind of understand it in this situation and certainly when showing four or five horses deep at Doncaster with people crossing in front of me, horny colts mixed in with fillies in season...

He is by Makfi, out of a Fantastic Light mare. He should be a good a two year old, he's well developed and Makfi is fairly popular at the moment so we are hoping for a good sale. Bully is near identical to his sire and we have another one, slightly bigger version going to Tatts october 2. What...

I posted on here about yearling prep some while ago and now already the sales are upon us. My beloved Bully is going and I am taking him. Firstly I am devastated. Crazy I know. I know he's going to be sold and that's what the last 6? 8? weeks have all been about, but now I am so worried about...

I would not consider turning your mare with her foal back out with the herd especially if she is a maiden. Even seasoned broodmares can get extremly funny when turned out with others. Our mares and foals usually go in groups of no more than four when the foals are a few weeks old. At this point...

Forgot to mention. I take a tube of Dirasanyl too, diarrhoea when camping would be horrible and if you are doing a lot with your dog and it gets ill, it will need to replace the electrolytes

Has she been treated for mange? or checked for mites?

Hi, I do a lot of Camping with my dogs and normally camp and hike so if you aren't doing a lot of walking my advise might be pointless. Collapsible water bowl, for when you are walking her, I have a silicon one that pops out, my sister prefers the material ones. Also a water for the walks...

I used to do it with my youngsters. Sometimes if they were getting a bit big for their boots when turn out was restricted. it would give them something to think about but also it proved a good way of introducing them to traffic and life in general. How long and and what I did was dependant on...

Is it actually a high energy feed? or is like a stud maintenance feed that they feed to their other horses? It might be just what the owners feed as they have found it works for them.

In this situation I wouldn't have had the horse vetted either. If I were to buy an artheritic 19 year to hack lightly my expectations of what purpose the horse would fit for would be quite low. Also as I have chosen to buy a horse with degenerative joint problem I would accept that I was likely...

In this situation I wouldn't have had the horse vetted either. If I were to buy an artheritic 19 year to hack lightly my expectations of what purpose the horse would fit for would be quite low. Also as I have chosen to buy a horse with degenerative joint problem I would accept that I was likely...