Recent content by calmolly

He is soooo lovely! what a neck and topline he has! If he doesn't match he can come live here with me!!! lol

Fantastic ideas...I never thought of animal skins. Of course the mare pee will sure get his attention!lol I'm gonna try to get a few things and practice at home this week to see what works best. We have another training day on Sat with a fantastic trainer of Arabs who is getting into minis, so...

I made a belly sweat using an old neoprene back support, taking out the padded 'bars'. It works great, so maybe a neoprene knee wrap or similiar would work . Or try saran wrap under the leg wrap...but like you mentioned I wouldn't leave it on unattended.

While at a training day with our local club on Sunday one of the more experienced handlers mentioned that the 'pros' use a sponge soaked in 'something' to bait their horses in the ring to get them to give their heads and necks. He didn't know what the something was. Does anyone out there know...

What a great idea...I use the dishwasher in the house to do dog bowls which freaks out my son and husband, wonder what they'd think if I brought in the feed tubs! lol

Awesome video! And what a gorgeous leggy foal. Even in the still you can see his beautiful movement.

I purchased both my minis sight unseen from a long distance away. It took me months to find the right horse, months more to get to know the breeder through emails and updated pictures. I spoke to probably 20 breeders who had great show records and beautiful horses and sometimes one phone call...

We have been very lucky here in GA too! The first cuts are now for sale and they are the same price as last year. We have had alot of rain, even at our farm. We live between two rivers and for some reason it effects how much rain we get. It can rain 10 miles North of us and 10 miles South...

Safe choice is 14% Protein, in fact almost exactly the same make up as Strategy. Normally I feed Beet pulp in the winter to the big guys but they did so well on the Safe Choice we disn't this year. I haven't fed it to the minis. Should I?

Ok these pics were taken a week later. Still a belly, but sweated all night the night before...by mistake but it sure helped. lol And yes I have alot to learn about ring presentation!

I have a few questions about Dwarfs. Is there a test...i.e blood test to check for carriers etc? Does John have a website? I'd like to learn more. He seems in proportion to me for his age etc, very cute too!! just not super refined.

Thank you Indy'sMom. He is getting 2.5 lb of Safe Choice a day now. The pot belly started to show about a month after I got him from his breeder. She fed him a large blue coffee cup of Horseman's Edge a day and he looked great. I changed him to Plarform mini feed, thinking I was doing the...

I hope this pic works...but you see what I mean by big belly. These pics were before I changed feed so he is generally more filled out now. ( I will post more later if this works) but look at the belly! :DOH! He is lounged 4 times a week, sweated every night for 2 hours, on a scratch paddock...

I would love to post a pic of my colt but all the pictures I try to post are too big or something. Hubby says he'll try to fix this for me. I recently changed feeds from Platform to Safe Choice (another thread) as the platform caused them to lose weight but gave them big bellies. He is now...

I was hoping for some help on sweating my 2yr old colts tummy. I bought him a neoprene with fleece tummy sweat and he wears it 2 hours every evening after exercise. Is this enough? How long should you leave it on for at the most? should he wear it during lounging? and last of all, how long...