@Yorkshire Coop
Hi Kim
Pleased Harry is enjoying his new fodder. Fingers crossed it does him good. You are wise to grade it in rather than a change suddenly. Don't want any upset tummies.
My sister has lured me towards natural horsemanship rather than training aids but I can see the benefit of them and sometimes I'm tempted, as I make such slow progress with Natural methods, but that is probably because I don't practice them enough. When I have had results like half passing, they are pretty impressive so I try to adhere to "Natural" as much as possible. Ian is more conventional and I often find myself in the middle of an argument between him and my sister. I wish you luck with your Harbridge though. I have a feeling that some animals are just naturally inclined to work in an outline and others are not. Rebel is 20 and only just "finding it". Rascal has always carried himself and yet they are full brothers. Of course I am jealous again because you have an arena to do schooling in. I have to do my schooling out on a hack, which gets a bit fraught at times! I must make more of a commitment to getting out riding now the winter is approaching as they really need the exercise when they are confined to barracks.
I got my faecal worm egg count results back on the horses today (samples taken and sent off yesterday lunchtime, so once again great service from Westgate Labs) and Rebel, Rascal and MeMe came back "<50 - no eggs seen". Cora had a medium count but at the bottom end of medium at 250 epg (Medium is 200-1200) and she hasn't been wormed for a year, so I'm very happy with that. I sent off an Equisal sample for Rascal and MeMe last week to test for tapes as I had seen what I thought might be tapeworm larvae in the muck heap, but both came back clear. It's a more expensive test so I didn't get all 4 done and I wasn't sure how I would manage collecting the saliva sample. Rascal was the one I was most concerned about as he is losing top line and MeMe is the youngest, so I decided to do them, but having now experienced the sampling, I will most likely use that service again in the future for all of them. I bought a sampling kit for the hens too and must get around to getting a sample sent off for them especially now that they are penned rather than free range.
Anyway, I've just had a phone call from Ian asking if I can change Archie's rug whilst I am up at the farm seeing to Zak's wound, so must head out and get them sorted.
Best wishes
Barbara
Hi Kim
Pleased Harry is enjoying his new fodder. Fingers crossed it does him good. You are wise to grade it in rather than a change suddenly. Don't want any upset tummies.
My sister has lured me towards natural horsemanship rather than training aids but I can see the benefit of them and sometimes I'm tempted, as I make such slow progress with Natural methods, but that is probably because I don't practice them enough. When I have had results like half passing, they are pretty impressive so I try to adhere to "Natural" as much as possible. Ian is more conventional and I often find myself in the middle of an argument between him and my sister. I wish you luck with your Harbridge though. I have a feeling that some animals are just naturally inclined to work in an outline and others are not. Rebel is 20 and only just "finding it". Rascal has always carried himself and yet they are full brothers. Of course I am jealous again because you have an arena to do schooling in. I have to do my schooling out on a hack, which gets a bit fraught at times! I must make more of a commitment to getting out riding now the winter is approaching as they really need the exercise when they are confined to barracks.
I got my faecal worm egg count results back on the horses today (samples taken and sent off yesterday lunchtime, so once again great service from Westgate Labs) and Rebel, Rascal and MeMe came back "<50 - no eggs seen". Cora had a medium count but at the bottom end of medium at 250 epg (Medium is 200-1200) and she hasn't been wormed for a year, so I'm very happy with that. I sent off an Equisal sample for Rascal and MeMe last week to test for tapes as I had seen what I thought might be tapeworm larvae in the muck heap, but both came back clear. It's a more expensive test so I didn't get all 4 done and I wasn't sure how I would manage collecting the saliva sample. Rascal was the one I was most concerned about as he is losing top line and MeMe is the youngest, so I decided to do them, but having now experienced the sampling, I will most likely use that service again in the future for all of them. I bought a sampling kit for the hens too and must get around to getting a sample sent off for them especially now that they are penned rather than free range.
Anyway, I've just had a phone call from Ian asking if I can change Archie's rug whilst I am up at the farm seeing to Zak's wound, so must head out and get them sorted.
Best wishes
Barbara