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Amy- welsh sec d mare... 3yr old

I bought Amy today but have been feeding her up and looking after her for a month or so because she had been left...

This was her last winter and this is her now...

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Yes she looks in lovely condition, you have done a great job. I would echo Wigglypigs comment about the feet though. It's really important to have her feet trimmed regularly as she needs to be level, especially as she is still growing, or you will end up with all kinds of lameness issues later on. But she is lovely
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She is looking lovely now....but arggghhhh please dont tie her up straight to the tie ring, sendin shivers down my spine.

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The UK is about the only place where people don't tie direct to rings! When I was being a working pupil in the USA I had two hilarious conversations which illustrated the culture gap. Firstly, I was asked to groom a rising 3yo colt. No twine on the ring in his stall so I found some and tied him up to it. Owner appears - is he being difficult to tie? Me - no, he's very well behaved. Owner - has he been pulling back? Me - no, he's not even really fidgety. Owner - why is he tied to string then? Me - because in the UK you'd get hung drawn and quartered for not tying to string..... Owner - oh, really? (Looks at me like I am a crazy person).

Later that week the farrier came, and he mentioned that he'd been to a shoeing convention recently where some guys did a talk on the trip they'd had to the UK and showed photos of some shoeing being done somewhere like the Household Cavalry. Farrier then said 'the wierdest thing was all these horses tied to bits of string, do you do that everywhere in the UK?' I explained that you'd never tie to a ring in the UK, and the farrier went 'well here we teach our horses to stay put when we tie them up, and when I tie something, I want it to stay there, so why would I tie it to string which it can break?'

I still tie to string, but equally, I probably wouldn't have heart failure if someone didn't anymore. Although one key difference is that most of the horses I saw had nylon headcollars with a leather headpiece which will snap in case of emergency.
 
My horse busted his tendon because yo changed my twine and I didnt notice in time. The twine didnt break and the horse pulled plank of wood off side of building and galloped off with it banging round his tendon .It brought him to his knees.This was one of the reasons I left the yard because non horsey yo interferred with safety precautions.
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A poor user recently posted about her pony that pulled the plank of wood off that he was tied to and it ran off and broke its neck.

Personally i wouldnt risk it, my neds are complete numpties and they would be the ones that would rip the panels off and bugger off or they would hang themselves!
 
Struggling wildly against being tied - wearing a headcollar that wont break easily, attached to a rope fixed to something solid that wont give, is an easy way to put a horse's neck and/or back out. Sure it works to train 'em the "hard way", but I'd be wanting the osteopath out afterwards.

To OP, wow what a change in your filly. She looks lovely now. Are you planning to do some ground work with her?
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