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Thank you for the advice! I do need to get some better quality grass hay, because I know the stuff we're feeding is not great. Any other advice from anyone?

Coming out of winter, both my miniature mares need to gain a bit of weight, but one in particular needs to. My 31" paint has a skinny neck and a big belly with not a very good topline. She's always been harder to keep good weight on than my other mini and I just wanted to ask your opinions on...

My little 3-year-old mare has a very skinny neck and a really poor topline (very bony back and no muscle on the topline), and below her skinny backbone is her hay belly. I was wondering what I can do (if anything) to make her neck a bit thicker because right now it's pencil-thin, decrease the...

Just curious...how big is the pen that you keep your miniature horse/s in, and how many minis live in that pen? Do you think a 65 x 80 ft dirt pen is big enough for two or three minis (that cannot be on grass hardly at all)?

I've actually decreased the amount of Equine Junior I'm feeding them because I thought they were looking to be a good weight verging on looking a bit plump...so maybe that's what's backfiring on me. Maybe I should just stick at one amount of Equine Jr. and not decrease it. I just wormed them, so...

I have a small yearling mini and she has a big belly that drops down. Our other mini is fine...it's just the one that is significant. I feed them the recommended amount of Purina Equine Junior per day, as well as free choice high quality hay. They get a salt block and plenty of fresh water. What...

I'm torn on what to do here. The flies have just started getting worse with the horses for the first time this year, and I was thinking of putting flymasks on them. I know it has to be somewhat annoying to have flies on your face all day, but would it be equally as distressing, if not more, to...

WELL. Today I am off to get a kiddie pool and a salt block, and I'll see if I can dig up a mister as well. They're going to have a decorated paddock to hang out in

I've never sprinkler-ed them before though...and they've never been hosed off. I wonder if I just put them in the little 16 x 16 pen we have for them and turn the sprinkler on right outside the fence. Then it would hit them and possibly feel like rain to them? I just don't want to get them...

There is shade, but not a ton. And they never go under it....of course

I went outside to my minis today and they're sweating in this awful heat and humidity. They have full water, but I still feel like an awful horse mom, seeing as though they live outside all the time and can't escape the heat. How do I help them beat the heat and stay hydrated? Should I get them...

It's been rainy and very muggy where I live, and every day when I go out to my horses' pasture, CLOUDS of tiny black bugs (I'm assuming gnats) fly up off the ground. They're on plants by the pasture, on the fence rails, and on all the damp ground in the pasture. The problem is, it is SO damp...

Post pictures of your silver dapple horses - baby or adult

I'm wondering if any of you have had any experience with getting either yearlings, two-year-olds, or three-year-olds and not having them be "tame", used to people, and/or worked with. How did you deal with this, and how did you get the minis so that they were friendly and receptive towards people?

Oh wow, I had no idea they even existed. If you don't mind me asking, why don't you care for them? I know absolutely nothing about them

Hello all! My minis have not had much training as of now and have never been introduced to clippers. I don't feel that at this point they're quite ready to be introduced to them...we still have quite a bit to do before we're at that point. Plus, I don't even have a working set. My issue is that...

They were born in the spring of last year.

So really feed them 11 pounds twice per day? That just seems like so much. I remember reading somewhere about how someone said that they feed 4 cups twice per day...does that sound reasonable?

The bag only has instructions for feeding when you don't feed roughage in addition to the grain...how much do you feed if you also feed hay?

One more question...how do I figure out how much they weigh? Haha