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I'm also in Cornwall, I don't use straw myself, but was chatting to a farmer I know about this weekend, and he said he is struggling to get large bale straw and the last he was quoted was £80 a large bale, which he reckoned translated to £6-8 for a small bale. This was a little while back, so...

28 days is such a short notice period- even if they're allowed to, it seems unlikely 25 of you will all find solutions in that time. Realistically, what can they do/are they going to do if you overstay? I hope you're able to find something suitable- it may be worth a wanted post on Facebook...

Busy with non-horsey stuff this weekend, but good luck to all with exciting plans. Might sneak in a hack in the sunshine this evening if I can!

I don't budget strictly (I probably should!) but probably pretty similar to yours- about £100 a month. I will splash out a bit more for big things maybe 2-3 times a year, e.g camps etc. I'm lucky that we have a great instructor who will come to the yard and do shared lessons for us for a very...

Yes, will definitely give this a go- when I first had him, we used to do a lot of stuff in hand in the arena, started off with practising standing still and practising standing to be mounted, but we did also do a lot with poles, tarp on the ground, etc. As he's matured and is generally less...

XC hire and starting off with me on the ground is a really good idea, definitely something I will look into doing! I think part of the issue I have at the moment is that I don't know exactly where my comfort zone is at the moment. Sometimes cross poles are fine. Sometimes they aren't...

For years, I didn't want to, and was happy with that. At the moment, I feel like if I completely gave up on jumping, I'd regret it, and I'm lucky that I've got a pony who is really genuine in terms of jumping. I want to feel confident again going into a jump, and if it all goes absolutely...

I think it sounds really sensible to walk away. When I was looking, I walked away from one on a borderline vetting, and one where I found something dodgy about the pony online (by googling the registered name). Maybe they would have been amazing ponies, but my pony is also great and has had...

Sounds like she is doing amazingly!

Definitely will check out the book, thank you! I definitely enjoy what I do retrospectively, or at least feel proud that I've done it!

I definitely plan to keep on with the lessons whenever we can make our schedules line up- they've helped so much over the winter and I can imagine another 6 months or so will make a huge difference!

I'm always a bit precious about jumping every time I go in the school as well- In many ways my pony is very low mileage, but I'm also conscious of not suddenly deciding to jump him loads but I think lots of repetition until it becomes boring (for me) might be part of the way to go.

I know this has been done to death, sorry and this post is probably going to be a bit all over the place, but I'm just trying to put how I feel into words, and maybe to get other people's thoughts and opinions. So, several years ago now, I was working with horses full time, taking BHS exams etc...

I agree that if the college are offering this course, they ought to have work placements lined up for their students if the work experience is required. If she's able to do it as one block, then is it worth looking at places that may offer her accommodation alongside or similar? When does she...

Personally, if it was me, I would want to take the whole feather off to see what I was dealing with properly- you may find that he actually has other sore spots hidden by the feathers. I've had to do this with my pony before when I first got him, and what initially looked like a mild issue was...