tallyho!
Following a strict mediterranean diet...
I'm really worried as my horse is really cold. He told me so this morning. I tried to help by putting my duvet on him and then few sheets of tarpaulin.
Now I'm cold.
Anyway, I've tried feeding more bran mash, muesli and he gets through a whole haylage bale a day. It doesn't seem to help. Everyday, he stands at the gate making me feel guilty. His belly is so huuuuge!!! But he's so skinny.
I hate winter. I've never had a winter so bad before. Infact, I've never had a winter. My horse can't walk now because it has four foot stacks of snow in its hooves. I've called the back man and he says it's a foot problem so I called the farrier. He put another set of shoes on the ones he put on last week because he had laminitis. It hasn't helped at all. I'm thinking of going barefoot and just using socks.
Now I can't ride him and because of that I'm now clinically obese so i can't ride him at all even though he's a shire x shetland.
What am I to do?
Someone said, just breed from him. I'm not sure if I should because that would mean finding his balls and I'm not sure my vet keeps them after the three year period...
Anyone else had this problem?
Now I'm cold.
Anyway, I've tried feeding more bran mash, muesli and he gets through a whole haylage bale a day. It doesn't seem to help. Everyday, he stands at the gate making me feel guilty. His belly is so huuuuge!!! But he's so skinny.
I hate winter. I've never had a winter so bad before. Infact, I've never had a winter. My horse can't walk now because it has four foot stacks of snow in its hooves. I've called the back man and he says it's a foot problem so I called the farrier. He put another set of shoes on the ones he put on last week because he had laminitis. It hasn't helped at all. I'm thinking of going barefoot and just using socks.
Now I can't ride him and because of that I'm now clinically obese so i can't ride him at all even though he's a shire x shetland.
What am I to do?
Someone said, just breed from him. I'm not sure if I should because that would mean finding his balls and I'm not sure my vet keeps them after the three year period...
Anyone else had this problem?
To make matters worse she is a fashion victim/princess type and wont come in her stable because 'it's the wrong colour' (what does she want.... flowery wallpaper and curtains?) and will only wear certain rugs because she 'doesn't like the feel of the fabric' of some of the others. 
It's very frustrating, I almost lost fingers due to frostbite because she faffed about so much, instead of eating up her tea quickly the other night.
