OC Showjumping

20/12/2019

All the horses have been good this year so we hope Santa can fit a few concrete trucks and some
new stables in his sleigh 🎅🏼🦄🐴❤️🥰

14/08/2019

Why is it the littlest equines in the yard that think rules don’t apply to them and they can do as they please 😂 .dont.do.paddocks 😂

21/07/2019

24/03/2019

19/02/2019

If I know you, I only want €1,427,488.08 and I’ll be sorted. Cheers nice one 🍾🍾🍾

Prize is biggest ever on island topping Co Down couple who won in January

21/11/2018

Do you use hibiscrub? You might want to read this...

The vast majority of horse owners would have a bottle of hibiscrub in their horse first aid kit, and probably use it regularly to clean the cuts and wounds that our horses pick up.

However several leading vets are now suggesting that hibiscrub is not the best product for cleaning wounds- and here is why

* Hibiscrub is really strong- after all it’s designed for surgeons (equine and human) to prepare for surgery

* Hibiscrub kills literally everything - good cells as well as the rubbish you’re trying to clean out

* Hibiscrub should be very very diluted, but most owners use it too concentrated, it should also be washed off as well

* Hibiscrub works on contact time, but ‘scrubbability’ - leaving it on for a minimum of 2 minutes is better than scrubbing away at the wound

* Hibiscrub doesn’t promote the best healing environment

Saline solution is the best product to clean most wounds with, and hibiscrub is best left for very very dirty wounds, or to be used on advice of your vet. You can use a pre-prepared saline solution, or make up your own using a teaspoon of salt in a pint of cooled boiled water