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Hope your girl is continuing to improve...bless you for taking on an oldster. If she is having trouble eating hay you would find Quids around her area....balls of chewed hay she hasn't been able to swallow ... also be careful with the oldsters as they are more prone to choke because of dental...

I would recommend a full dental work-up to see if he is responding to pain somewhere in his mouth....had one that used to do a lot of tongue play and found her wolf teeth had never been removed and were actually hooked on the end...

Is it possible for you to hire a bit of help .... with Parkinson's keeping moving is so important so the farm will actually be therapy ..... Lots of teens around here would love to hop on a tractor and mow .... I too am feeling age creeping in and getting harder to keep up, will be dispersing...

Any great ideas on moving large quantities of water after all your hydrants freeze??? Just got a Newfie...thinking I might have to get her trained to pull a sled!!

Man has it been a tough one and just will not stop.....thought a few hints on how to survive this weather might help folks out... What did I learn this year? Yak Traxs are worth their weight in gold..... Remove ice from frozen water buckets by letting them sit in my large heated water tanks...

Have some experience with this with some rescue minis, one locked up very bad and could be locked for days, the usual procedure for releasing the patella just didn't work for him. Of the four I have dealt with, one grew out of it, 2 responded to the simple standing tendon splitting procedure...

Try not to take it personal, have had it happen also .... took my little guy to a rated show one weekend, he took 3rd in a large class ... next weekend went to a local open show that had a bunch of minis, mostly pets .... he got the gate and the winner was a very cute Thelwell type tiny mini...

Not a vet so please clear with your vet but if they were mine I would do a uterine infusion with antibiotic and put any other pregnant mares you may have on SMZs for 10 days. Could be an infection passed by your stallion from mare to mare, could also be weather stress...5 months is in my...

We only have AMHR shows here but my preference is for the non-shetland mini so am looking at AMHA for the future. AMHA has come up with some pretty interesting new classes lately and seems to be thinking more out of the box lately giving folks more opportunity to participate with the new stock...

Going to sound strange but I had a rescue mare with chronic eye issues, looked like she had cherry eye, treated and treated and even ended up having to get her eye sewn shut with a shunt to treat......finally went back to my old theory everything wrong on a minis head has to do with...

So will throw in my 2 cents for what it is worth. I feel part of the problem is the continued focus on halter with performance being a second thought. Only a very small percent of the registry with a very specific type or look will place in halter but performance is wide open...all types...and...

So first of all stallions are never too old to do it....which means your little girl is almost certainly pregnant. If you recorded the day you saw the stallion mount her go out 1 year then count back 30 days to find her due date in 2015....start watching her when she would be about 300 days...

Just a hint if you are looking to rehab a rescue...esp for a kids mount...many of those horses you see in the scout camps and summer riding camps are not kept for future years, they are dumped at auction in the fall as the camps have no staff or funds to keep them over the winter....safe, older...

Just like people, horses have likes and dislikes too, some horses just do not like to leave home or show....I just brought one home from the trainer that just does not want to be a show horse. On the other hand my gelding loves to be in the ring showing off.....

I use a glycerin bar and warm water to clean then harness honey...love old leather and old saddles and the combination has brought several old and dry pieces of equipment back to life!

Yes, just about to make an appointment for one....or maybe more!!

Remember these are just people's ideas from their experience, this could be a lot of things...sand moving through, colitis, ulcers, a foreign body...enterolith, fecalith, bezoar .... a bean in his sheath, all kinds of things that only a medical professional can diagnose with an appropriate exam.

Most shows around here you can actually apply for your amateur card at the show, costs a little more but still really reasonable and then you can show in all the Ammy classes...model is kind of nice too if you are nervous gives you a chance to go into a very straightforward class first...just...

Choke cherries are dangerous, leaves, bark or wood, I know a year or so ago someone on here lost 3 horses because they had cut wild cherry in the pasture and the horses ate the sawdust and chewed on the trunk....black walnut is most recognized for causing founder but can cause all kinds of...

Buckeye will send you milk replacer overnight if you go to their site....