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Here Here Shils!

If I saw titles such as you had suggested I would have thought I had accidently wandered onto an NH website where they all seem to say its there way and no other!
 
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You forgot "horses don't need shoes/every horse can go barefoot"...a particular bugbear of mine
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Horses don't need shoes and they all could survive barefoot
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I might add that this would only work for certain horses if they were kept in a stone free field 24/7, never ridden or asked to walk on anything other than nature perfect carpet...but the point is they could all go barefoot!
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Thank you!
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But you have also just established that this sort of post is also good for weather forecasting.......
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Indeed - which would be useful if I cased what the weather was doing at the other end of the country......as it turns out, I dont!!
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well said Shils
I do like reading those posts though & occasionally adding a wee bit
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You and your wee
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Sorry nothing else to add, don't want to have an opinion, might be seen as opinionated.....
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Ooh now that's a tricky one. Yes they shouldn't need shoes or rugs, BUT HUMANS bred thoroughbreds and the fine-coated breeds and with those with inbred, rubbish feet. Only natives shouldn't need rugs, and in the wild they don't walk along roads for miles. We have to make the best of a bad job. I certainly do believe that a great many owners do completely over-rug horses - an unclipped hairy thing wearing a huge duvet-style rug in an indoor stable? A horse wearing a filled waterproof rug when it was 70 degrees recently? My old girl wears a 4oz homemade (15 years old) stable rug when it goes below freezing at night because nature has given her a yetti covering of her own. I do rug her against the wet as she has drugs which make her feel the cold, but always in the lightest rugs for the conditions. She isn't shod anymore because of her arthritis and is retired now - I rasp her round myself to keep her feet in good shape and condition. I am happy to concede that it is different strokes for different folks, and horses should be treated and cared for as individuals. Following fashion and copying everything in this month's magazines isn't necessarily the right thing to do, or copying the neighbouring owner slavishly for that matter. But I suppose I'd rather spoil my horse than subject her to out and out neglect, and sadly, there is plenty of that going on.
 
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You forgot "horses don't need shoes/every horse can go barefoot"...a particular bugbear of mine
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Horses don't need shoes and they all could survive barefoot
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I might add that this would only work for certain horses if they were kept in a stone free field 24/7, never ridden or asked to walk on anything other than nature perfect carpet...but the point is they could all go barefoot!
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Point taken
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I should have worded original statement better
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In one way I want to say Hear, hear!

On other hand people are entitled to their own opinion and in general they're only doing the same as you're doing on this thread... The biggest problem for me, is probably that they don't usually express their opinion half as entertaining as you do yours but maybe this weather is getting to hot for you too because this thread seems to be mostly getting replies agreeing with you?



































Or are you just scaring them into silence?
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I completely agree with you. These people do not seem to realise that every horse is different and so will need looking after differently.
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lol, afternoon shils,

but......
I am of the opinion that all horses CAN eat grass, whether they should be or not might be a different matter. unless I've missed something in which case I welcome enlighenment
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My horse can eat grass but is in fact allergic to it and his glands blow up around his head like a football. So he has to have restricted grazing and occasionally no turn out at all.
 
You are a mind reader!! I was thinking this earlier
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Why should it matter if people do what they want with their horses. Who has the right to decide that they know best
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Why should it matter if people do what they want with their horses.

[/ QUOTE ] But where do we draw the line - for example, some would argue that Jamie Gray should have been allowed to do what he liked with his horses!
 
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I'm of the opinion that when I want your opinion I'll give you it.

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DAMMIT MrsM - I scrolled down to the bottom of this post to say that, to find you stole my line!!!!
 
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I'm of the opinion that when I want your opinion I'll give you it.

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DAMMIT MrsM - I scrolled down to the bottom of this post to say that, to find you stole my line!!!!

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What can I say. Great minds and all that
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lol, afternoon shils,

but......
I am of the opinion that all horses CAN eat grass, whether they should be or not might be a different matter. unless I've missed something in which case I welcome enlighenment
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My horse can eat grass but is in fact allergic to it and his glands blow up around his head like a football. So he has to have restricted grazing and occasionally no turn out at all.

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thankyou for the enlightenment am intrigued now! allsorts of grass ? grass just in grass form? or grass derivatives too ie hay/haylage? what do you feed? alfalfa?

apologies for all the questions am sciency!
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Ester, I have the same problem with my 20yr old Tb mare - the vets think she can't digest the sugars in it properly, and have speculated that she lacks some enzymes.
The longer the grass, the better (higher cellulose content, presumably), and she eats hay, sugar beet etc, without any problem.
If I turned her into a lovely, lush grass field tomorrow morning, she'd be colicking by early afternoon.
I have asked the vets if they could investigate further, and they said brightly 'Oh yes! We can do a post mortem!' but I declined.
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I think there is a difference between a CATEGORIC STATEMENT..... eg it's my way or no way, and an OPINION.

This forum I believe, thrives on opinions..... that's brilliant and we all want others OPINIONS that's why we ask a question in the first place, but a CATEGORIC STATEMENT..... now that's another matter
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I like to give my opinion and i like to hear others,
I enjoy debating difference of opinions,
I do not enjoy peolple who give a statment and then bash your opinion as not being credible if that makes sense.
Am also finding that in comp riders people tend to be more open about deabting and more reasonable than in new lounge.
again only my opinion!!!!
 
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