Smash
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Your YO should have dealt with this when they were first made aware. She MUST be contacted asap.
Urgent advice needed please...
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Puppy
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rules on my yard are - NO cribbers/ windsuckers etc allowed to stop other horses copying.
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Wow your YO is very ignorant - just goes to show that you don't have to understand horses to open a livery yard. Very sad.
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Absolutely! Cribbing and windsucking are not contagious.
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rules on my yard are - NO cribbers/ windsuckers etc allowed to stop other horses copying.
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Wow your YO is very ignorant - just goes to show that you don't have to understand horses to open a livery yard. Very sad.
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Absolutely! Cribbing and windsucking are not contagious.
OWLIE185
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Even a horse that is suffering from Laminitis should have a slice of well soaked hay every 4 hours.
The yard owner should have the telephone number of the owner and simply phone her and ask her to meet with her to discuss the management of her horse. Otherwise she should leave a note on the horses stable.
If there is a welfare issue you can always contact the ILPH (International League for the Protection of Horses) welfare line and they will be pleased to send one of their inspectors.
Most their inspectors are ex-police.
Tel: 0870 871 1927
www.ilph.org
The yard owner should have the telephone number of the owner and simply phone her and ask her to meet with her to discuss the management of her horse. Otherwise she should leave a note on the horses stable.
If there is a welfare issue you can always contact the ILPH (International League for the Protection of Horses) welfare line and they will be pleased to send one of their inspectors.
Most their inspectors are ex-police.
Tel: 0870 871 1927
www.ilph.org
ISHmad
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As a minimum this horse should be getting 2% in its' own bodyweight of forage (or what the ideal bodyweight for this horse should be) but ideally 2.5%. You can feed soaked haylage to get all the sugars etc out and it can then be pretty much fed ad lib in conjunction with a good lo calorie balancer to ensure that the horse is getting all the vits and mins etc.
The haylage needs to be soaked for as long as possible, and then rinsed off before feeding it to the horse.
What a horrible situation to find yourself in. Really pleased for H though that there are people around like you who care. The owner may be doing this in all innocence but whatever the case fingers crossed it can all be resolved amicably and the horse is okay. He must be demented at the moment with the lack of food, hence the increasing windsucking.
Anyone who has ever seen the Simple Systems demonstration regarding the amount of liquid produced by a horse, and the build up of stomach acids if not fed regularly would be racing down there now to give that boy some food!
The haylage needs to be soaked for as long as possible, and then rinsed off before feeding it to the horse.
What a horrible situation to find yourself in. Really pleased for H though that there are people around like you who care. The owner may be doing this in all innocence but whatever the case fingers crossed it can all be resolved amicably and the horse is okay. He must be demented at the moment with the lack of food, hence the increasing windsucking.
Anyone who has ever seen the Simple Systems demonstration regarding the amount of liquid produced by a horse, and the build up of stomach acids if not fed regularly would be racing down there now to give that boy some food!
soph21
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does she not realise that starving him isn't the only way to lose weight? taking him for hacks/walks etc help lose weight!!! sorry but i hate people like ''NG'' they dont deserve nice horses.
aimeerose
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poor you, what a horrid situation to be stuck in.
personally i think that it is the YO or YM job to speak to the client - at the end of they day they own/run the yard and they have final say on what is acceptable and what is not on their 'turf' so to speak.
personally i think that it is the YO or YM job to speak to the client - at the end of they day they own/run the yard and they have final say on what is acceptable and what is not on their 'turf' so to speak.
nona1
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I suspect she misunderstood the advice she was given.
If the horse had been kept out previously, the adviser may have assumed it would be kept out now. so the advice not to feed any hay etc was not to feed in addition to the grazing. Not simply just to starve the animal totally!
If the horse had been kept out previously, the adviser may have assumed it would be kept out now. so the advice not to feed any hay etc was not to feed in addition to the grazing. Not simply just to starve the animal totally!