Posted by on Mar 27, 2011 in General News, Horses | 0 comments
An unavoidable part of keeping equines is the fact that they produce manure….manure in great quantities! On average a horse will produce about 8-12 piles of poo a day, that could be more that 22kg a day for just one horse.
If you are managing your paddocks by ‘poop scooping’ or have your horses in and muck out each day, you will, like many of us be wondering what to do with all...
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Ireland’s financial crash from prosperity has hit everyone very hard indeed, but none are suffering more than the horses, and those involved with them. A major part of Ireland’s economy has always been the horse industry, with high prices commanded for the cream of the bloodstock from the racing world.
This link about TOM HOGAN tells of a racehorse trainer in Ireland who has seen his...
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Milly and Ellie are two beautiful older (17yo and 18yo) Arabian mares who are urgently seeking a new home due to a desperately sad change of circumstance.
Milly, the grey, has been with her owner all her life In her younger days she won at top level, showing in hand and under saddle, and was latterly a brood mare.
Ellie joined Milly a couple of years ago, having served her time as a...
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Posted by on Sep 21, 2010 in Association News, Horses | 4 comments
Pastures being the appropriate word, the boys could hardly believe their luck when they were turned out into their new field full of grass!
On the journey to their new home with John and Carolyn, Leo was very stressy and didn’t travel well causing Corrie to become somewhat wound up too. We safely managed their ‘enthusiasm’ to leave the trailer (!), and after a cursory glance at...
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Posted by on Jul 4, 2010 in Horses, Rescues | 1 comment
We left early last Monday to go and collect Corran Ard with a fair degree of trepidation. We had no idea what we were going to find, and the cloak and dagger atmosphere surrounding the location of the farm made us wary.
We had to telephone a number when we arrived at the nearest town to the farm, and someone came to guide us there. In the surrounding fields were heavy cob type mares, many with...
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Posted by on May 29, 2010 in General News, Horses, Tourism | 0 comments
Within the space of a few weeks I’ve seen both ends of the spectrum of horse welfare from the extreme neglect of the unwanted souls at markets, to the minutest attention to detail paid to the horses behind the scenes at the Saumur 3* 3DE.
After recent outings to several Foires des Chevaux, it was wonderful to be going to a horse event simply for fun, with no intent other than to catch up...
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