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The minis I work with (but don't own or have control of all their care) are good little guys. The largest one has seriously upright tin-can feet. In the slightly more than a year that I've been working with them, I very been trying to get this boy's feet cut down. The trimmer comes out every 4-6...

Rabbit -- are you asking how I'd see them if i it'd it huge reverse unicorn or if I pony them behind the cart? I don't think the reverse unicorn is feasible or advisable, so I won't be trying that. However, ponying them behind the cart isn't that hard - especially if I have a passenger. I've...

The minis have a forecart that I'm using right now. I have 2 young, but heavy, children who'd really love to ride in the cart with me. The biggest problem is that the bench seat on the forecart is just wide enough for me and one child. I found some 'hitch carts' for sale online that are...

Thanks. I've been ground driving the minis together up and down some big hills as well as going out on the road/fallow fields for a good walk. I also lunge them using hills to help build up collection as well as wind. Sundance's allergies are really causing him to blow hard after very little...

How terrible!! The mini's barn has had coyote tracks in it, but that's nowhere near as bad as what happened to your little guy. I wonder how the attacker got inside your barn? I hope he recovers.

I wish the boys I'm working with could partner up with your girl... She could teach them so much!!

Thank you. The only other horses I have access to are two laminitic minis and a big Belgian. I working on getting the Belgian to pull his cart, but he's got some attitude issues. He also intimidates me a bit because if he decides to go crazy I'm SOL. The mini with the sway back doesn't have an...

I'm definitely a noob about minis, so please gently guide me to older posts if this has already been discussed ad nauseum... I've got two drivable minis (both about 37" maybe) that are terribly out of shape. I've been very slowly working on refreshing their driving skills. So far I've had them...

Just a word of caution from a breast cancer survivor who's in surgical menopause since age 28 (I'm now 32). The medical jury is still out on whether the phyto-estrogens found in soy, black kohosh, 'herbal' menopause treatments, etc affect breast cancer risk. The same is true of birth control...

It's probably too late, but they should have been able to test his blood at autopsy for various drugs. If not, they can also use the vitreous humor (eye fluid) for drugs. If your vet kept some of the blood, you may try to get it sent to a forensic lab for testing. Even if the police aren't...

I'm late to this discussion, but I wanted to share an easy substitution for a stud chain. I had an extra choke-chain dog collar and a two ended snap laying around. Voila, any lead or lunge line converted to a stud chain. I personally think the choke collar releases better than most stud chains...

The only thing that makes me rethink a halter-bridle combo for driving is the blinders/winkers. With a driving bridle the blinders are attached to the cheek-pieces. My halter-bridle combo that I used for my riding horse used the halter's cheek pieces as the base. The bit's cheek-pieces were...

If I were you and concerned about him 'winning' instead of just turning him loose in his paddock, I'd tie him to a solid tree, post, rail, etc. I don't know if this is just a 'cowboy' trick, but something that has worked wonders for me on big horses is to tie them. The one time I had 'lessons'...

I've been working with my neighbors minis a lot lately. I finally got the nerve to put two of them to the cart (individually, not as a team). I started with Cody. He's older, but still quite spirited. He was purchased as a driving pony (sort of), but was never really used. He's very set in his...

While theoretically I'm in 'horse country' my area in Western KY does run to throwing rocks & hitting good farriers. Especially not ones who would be amiable to treating chronic founder/laminitis in minis. You're right I don't own the horses, but I'm trying to do my best for them. Based on what...

The two worst boys also are the youngest in their herd of geldings. They're all less than 10 years old (except the Belgian he was 6 when he was purchased 10 years ago). He was purchased well before the minis & they were all young (>5). That's as specific as I can get. I don't want to have to...

When he's gimping around without pounding pulse or heat, he's having pain, not from current inflamation, but from the mechanical pain of his white line/lamina being pulled apart by his weight? Which in turn can cause another flare up of laminitis as his immune system responds to the mechanical...

I've never handled a horse with founder/laminitis problems until now. So I'm doing a lot of reading on the Internet (mostly barefoot trimming, hoof anatomy, and the safer grass page) and through research journals to find out more about managing and preventing recurrences, this may sound like a...

I'm going to have my husband sharpen both pairs of nippers I have so it won't be so hard to do next time. I absolutely LOVE the Rider's Rasp Trail size that I have! It made rasping so much easier! The one I have doesn't have the fine teeth, just the medium ones, but seems to be ok. I still have...

I've had the crazy stomach bug going around for what seems like the past two weeks. So my time with the minis has been minimal. Today is the first day I went out there and thought I could tackle the biggest mini's foundered/laminitis-y feet. I've been reading every barefoot, treating...