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Check your tension isn’t transferring to your hands/reins in competitions, try using body and legs more and keeping hands still. Certainly dont go down the route of clamping her jaw shut anymore.

Its called Pica..google it, and chat with your vets on the phone, something else may or may not be going on with her..bloods and an examination would be needed..

Mine was 9 when i bought him, front feet weren’t great, but a good farrier and diet helped, certainly wasnt bombproof with lorries and tractors but training helped with that, did everything, pleasure rides, xc, jumping, dressage and hacking, one of the most well mannered polite horses ive known...

I’m sorry to hear this sad news, I had my old boy (23) pts two months ago, cancer,, it had spread, he went downhill very quickly in 4 weeks, no option but pts, they cannot cure the cancer, it’s a horrible decision but it’s about quality of life in the end..

Linseed and speedibeet

Has he had a dental check recently?

Try using your weight instead of putting your leg on ?

As above but you pull and give back, pull and give back with your reins, if you just pull you won’t win the strength contest! You’ll come on in leaps and bounds in private lessons.

Thank you all for your responses I’m sorted

After losing my old boy yesterday, I have 95 Prascend pills leftover! My vet won’t take them back..anyone know what I can do with them? Or anyone want them reduced (as long as you’re already getting Prascend for pony/horse)!

Does depend on the land, well drained, sandy, clay or peat like mine, which is a nightmare (with 15.1 and 11.2).. as said get rid of walker, open up a couple of the stables for storage for hay and feed. Take it there is a water supply there? Go for it..

Just bog standard masonry paint I think..as for colour, whatever colour you want!

Wrapped hay user for the first time last winter, was unsure as I have to soak for my ppid horse and fatty pony, ended up feeding straight (no soaking) as the weather was so bad it kept freezing in the trugs, worried re high sugars but ended up being not as dusty as hay, not as wet as haylage and...

Love hacking, but hacking where I am is limited unless you have transport, but you def have to be on the ball hacking, I can’t stand the degrading looks you get when you say you ‘just’ hack...I used to compete locally, and have done pleasure rides (which are fab on a horse that’s that doesnt...

Unless it’s smoking into your house and garden, id leave well alone..

Agree with bernster.uncomfirtable viewings of dorothe schneider riding ..horse tired or not, it wasn’t good riding on her part, lots of hard hands, bad seat..shows how much more subtle Charlotte was with aids..

I was going to suggest Shamus but then realised she’s a girl! Shandy’s good..

Any update OP?

I used a hitch lock...

Nice to hear farmers being appreciated! OH used to be out till midnight silaging and pair of us in bed at 10 up at 5 for lambing..it’s a way of life not a job, but knackering at times!

Prob not related but has he had his teeth checked too?

Vicks vapour rub, excellent for stopping midge bites itching, after I looked like a pizza last summer all over when the little sods bit me, i dabbed a bit on each bite (took a while, face head and body!)..I didn’t itch and they went down from volcanoes to nothing....any jungle repellent should...

Whereabouts in south manchester.

I bought a cob x 14yrs ago, and have had a few people turn their noses down at him, with their warmbloods/tbs other breeds of horse..however, he has the best manners, we clicked together, have done all sorts at riding clubs, and he’s still going strong at 23, only ailment? Cushings, all those...

I use then largest trig I could find, fill the net, dunk it in and stand on it, like treading grapes, till it’s squished down covered in water..to drain, I have an upturned old metal hay feeder, heave the net onto that and let drain for half an hour..

ANother for glyphosate..we were covered in docks, I’ve been religiously spraying them with my hand held hairdressers water spray for the last 3 years, and now now i have barely any.. watch out if there are any in neighbouring fields, as they will just seed back over into your field..

I’ve been soaking my cushings horses hay for 6/7 years now, sometimes for 3 hours (in summer when it’s warm), sometimes overnight, sometimes for 6 hours in the day, he always eats it, never had a weird smell from it, just the usual not unpleasant smell that comes from soaked hay, he’s not been...

I tend to leave them for the butterflies, then in autumn when they start wilting, the horse will eat what they want/need..

I read somewhere that spirulina was meant to be good for sweetitch, but I think you have to start feeding it in January, before sweetitch season begins. I’m sure someone on here will know more about it!

Need some warmer weather, frosty nights aren’t helping! def no rain thank you! Being on peat, the ground turns to bog as soon as a cm of rain appears! They’re finding a something out there but I can’t see much but dry mud!