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Just wondering how much you all exercise your minis to get them in show condition? I started with walking my obese mini for 90 minutes per day about a month ago, and I’m now starting to walk him for an hour, and trot him for 20 minutes (up and down hills as we have no flat land). He is losing...

Hi all, so I currently have an 8 year old mini and would love to teach him to drive, however I have never driven a horse before and I’m not sure if breaking him to cart is a good idea when I don’t know what I’m doing. I have a lot of experience with horses in general, but not with driving and...

So my mini is over weight and needs his grass restricted, in saying this, he had never foundered or shown any signs of it despite being on rich grass 24/7 for the majority of his life before he came to me. Lately I’ve been putting him in the yard for 16 hours a day with ad lib hay and turning...

Meadow chaff is just made from a mix of grasses from meadows, similar to grass hay but chopped. Dynavyte is my all time favourite supplement that I would never go without, it supports the microbes and keeps them healthy from the inside out, they get an AMAZING shine from it. I feed my bigger...

Firstly you’d either want very small paddocks with low sugar grass or yards/stables as miniatures are known for getting fat on air and are also prone to conditions such as laminitis and EMS. I’d say that’s the main thing, depending on what you plan on doin with them you may want to look for a...

My gelding is 31.5” with a BCS of 7 out of 9 and a Cresty Neck Score of 3 out of 5. I’ll be taking him to our first show in 2 months time and would like him to at least look presentable and at a reasonable weight by then. He is currently on poor-moderate quality grass for 8 hours a day, and free...