Recent content by Blue rose

I would definitely do a PPE for the situation you are looking at. Make sure the vet does a flex tests on those legs, somethings may show up that would not be seen other wise. Not that that means don't buy but at least you have a full picture of what you are looking at. I have had horses not...

I have done PPE on minis before. Mostly for performance horses, because just with a big horse I wanted to know that the horse I was buying was fit for the job. I think there are less health issues with minis but you can still find heart/lung problems, leg issues.... Any animal is an...

I have had my mares ultrasound for most of their pregnancies, just like to make sure that everything looks good etc. Had one vets office in the area tell me there was no way they could U/S, so called the practice that does more reproduction work and they said no problem. They only concern they...

I got the blanket from sstack about a month ago and love it. My stallion is hard on blankets and this thing has so far held up great. My only complaint was that the leg straps were way too short, so I took them off. Was going to replace them with longer ones from an other blanket but so far...

I have worked off board before, cleaned stalls 2-3 days a week about 20 horses in the barn for half my board. I have never had to board my minis but several times my big horses. Almost all were great. The really bad one was a barn where I had my TB gelding that I had basically rescued, he was...

He looks max sabino, although blue eyes are not as common with sabinos. To be max sabino he would be homozygous for sabino. It is not unusual for horses to have more that one gene for color pattern since overo and sabino genes are separate you can have a sabino/overo or even a sabino/tobiano...

Black tea, just steep the tea bag for a minute or two then dab on the hot spot two or three times a day. This has worked better then any thing else on our long haired dogs and is very cheap! Diet can be a huge factor with corn being the most common culprit, but of course there many things that...

Hormones are so much fun. I bought my stallion last year as a 3 year old and as soon as he got here he figured out he liked girls! Drove me nuts for the first three weeks I had him. I used a LOT of patience and natural horsemanship (Downunder worked for me) to get him focused on me not the...

I just got a job in the area for about 3 months with the Forest Service and am trying to see if I can find a way to bring mini along. I hate to let her sit all summer so I figured it was worth a try to see if anyone has some space available. Thanks, Mara

Temperament of the individual horses has a lot to do with safely stalling them together. Most of my horses are fine being together but I have one mare that will kick the crap out of anyone who gets near her food. She has her own stall. Also all of my stalls have large paddocks and the horses...

This just wandered into my brain. I have know several horses with allegies to timothy, althought when my horses went through it he big welts all over his body. At least with him all I had to do was remove the timothy. I did read that flax seed and extra vit C can help calm the immune system...

I have fed oats with a good balanced vit for years and all my horses look great. This is being fed to a range of breeds and ages of horses. For horses that need a little extra, for showing or mares with foals, I add a sweet feed. I live in western washington and where I am we are lucky to...

I have a full sized mare that got some kind of fungal infection on the side of her nick, big round spot cracked skin, very nasty. Had the vet out several times treated her with every ointment around, ended up putting her on a systemic fungicide that worked for a while. Then it came back, at...

Not sure if it would work for minis but I had my old (33 or so) TB gelding that had major pain managment issues in the winter on Previcox (Sp?). It worked better then anything else we had him on. But the best thing is to talk to your vet, all these pain managment drugs have pros and cons and...