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I went out to feed my horses the other day and noticed my mini was limping slightly on her right hind leg. I went inside the pen and felt the leg, it is slightly swollen but it is squishy. I really can't tell if it is hot because she has so much hair but i don't think it was. It has been very...

Went out to feed horses this morning noticed maggie favoring left hind foot, climbed over gate cause lock was frozen shut, the left hind leg is squishier than the other, it is very icy where we live it is very possible she slipped and sprung it or something, what can i do for her?

My 4 year old mare has never ever been fat she is usually on the verge of being skinny because she eats slow and my shetland that she lives with eats fast. This year she is still skinny and i don't get it because i wormed her and she is eating like a cow. Her coat is extremly shiny and otherwise...

my boy has some kind of fungal skin thing that has been there for a long time it is basically a big scab. I have tried putting toohtpaste on it (someone recommended that) i was wondering if a generic antifungal cream might help?

My horses aren't shedded out yet. I think it's cause it hasn't been very hot yet but i really would like to get the extra hair off of them. One just has fur around her belly but my other need to shed all over. Anything i could put in their feed to help it fall off?

She had a pregnant mare and it lost its foal,it was stillborn and they had a heck of a time getting it out becuase it was so big. The vet told them they lost it because there was fecue grass in her pasture. Is that true? I've never heard that. I think the vet was stupid personally. I read that...

She is eating her hay very slowly and tossing her head and pawing the ground, she looks at me like she's expecting something. She has icky breath. I'm pretty sure it's a tooth problem, but we won't be able to get her to the vet tomorrow. Is there any thing i can do for her? Oh and she seemed...

Ok so my shetland has had this spot on his side since last summer where there is less hair that everywhere else and little scabby things. I thought it was ringworm,so i was putting toothpaste on it cause i read that it was a cure for ringworm. Anyway, i got my shetland out for his first big...

Is there any way to keep minis from eating the straw you put down for them to lay in??? I would like them to have a nice thick layer of straw in the shed in winter but they eat it! After they finish their hay they go to town on their straw..help! :

My dad is re doing our lean two for my ponies. I think he's gonna start over completly. What direction should the opening face? We are going to make our shed deeper and have half of it closed and a door on the side that isn't. Any suggestions on building it? We are using metal siding,it works...

like in the winter to keep snow off their necks?

I have a mini and a shetland, where i live it can get down to around-10 on a extremly cold day, usually it's around the 5-35 degree range. So last year my miniature actually was cold one day she was hsivering and i covered her in blankets and laid by her for a while. We get a lot of really cold...

Does anyone go to FFA shows,i'm joining and i heard that they have pony classes,so give a shout out if you do!

i would like to know the pro and cons of a leather vs biothane harness. i just want one for driving round my property and maybe some fun show,i have a old leather one and it is falling apart though it's probably 20 years ols i bought it 2nd hand for 30 bucks so you can imagine what kind of...

On his registration papers it lust says class a shetland, but what type is he? yah i no how badly he's set up

The guy who usually sells us hay was gone and we went to get hay from someone else, he had clover hay, is that oki for horses? I knew that clover made them slober but i forgot why so i jus got grass hay, but the clover hay looked a lot better. Would it have been ok to buy it?

Please what is my boy, is he possibly a white/black roan? also you can't see from the picture but one of his spots has some red in it, he also has one blue eye, so possibly some sabino?His sire was a red roan(peter pans bo jack vb), no idea about dam(kaddars misty mist) iv'e been looking for...

Ok i have a mini and a shetland. We are going camping about an hour away from home for 3 days. Would it be ok to just throw them a bale of hay,and let them eat of of it for a few days. I'm going to have someone check on them everyday, but as for feding would it hurt them? They usually get 3-4...

This is maggie before shedding out head shot a few weeks ago another head shot ok thats all for now

Ok i did a dumb thing and didn't record when i last wormed my ponies, i know that it was sometime in may, my mini either has a hay belly or is wormy, i cant be sure but if i were to worm her now could it be harmful to her?