MadMumInKent
27th Apr 2006, 09:52 AM
Well, its great really! :D
I'm mid-NVQ, and loving it, learning loads, currently doing feed, which is an inexhaustable subject! Am going to do the riding unit last to give me time to practise. I'm doing level 2, but am wondering whether I should then do level 3 before entering the big wide world of DIY livery.
Anyway, Pumpkin is doing brill. His weight is spot on now, so we've levelled his feed off and he's now maintaining well. He's got a lovely gloss to him, and is happy as larry. He'll be even happier come mid-May when he'll be on 24 hr turnout! Some of the grazing is already cordoned off, ready for any horses that start to get podgy etc.
As for the riding, well, he still gets bored by schooling, but I really need to do some every now and then, so I make it as interesting as I can - we do poles, we've now jumped 21 inches :eek: (He's really funny, he trots up to it, pauses, and then heaves himself over) :D We do it with absolutely no grace or style, but we don't care, its fun and its something different. I still don't canter on him, I find it really really hard to get him into canter, his trot is so bouncy, and then it gets rushed, and we end up all over the place. But, the YO has said as long as it's dry we can use one of the fields to ride in occasionally, so I'm going to try and do it there, where there's no pressure of corners or tight confines of the school. I think it will come naturally where there's a bit more space.
I took him out for a hack the other day, (in company - we still don't hack solo) and it was the first one for about 3 weeks, and he was steady as a rock.
Anyway, his lordship says hello to you all... He's breathing a sigh of relief, cos mum is stuck indoors while the men are putting a new boiler in, so that means she can't get up the yard and make him do more silly jumping ;)
http://www.tammaro.plus.com/pumpkin.jpg
I'm mid-NVQ, and loving it, learning loads, currently doing feed, which is an inexhaustable subject! Am going to do the riding unit last to give me time to practise. I'm doing level 2, but am wondering whether I should then do level 3 before entering the big wide world of DIY livery.
Anyway, Pumpkin is doing brill. His weight is spot on now, so we've levelled his feed off and he's now maintaining well. He's got a lovely gloss to him, and is happy as larry. He'll be even happier come mid-May when he'll be on 24 hr turnout! Some of the grazing is already cordoned off, ready for any horses that start to get podgy etc.
As for the riding, well, he still gets bored by schooling, but I really need to do some every now and then, so I make it as interesting as I can - we do poles, we've now jumped 21 inches :eek: (He's really funny, he trots up to it, pauses, and then heaves himself over) :D We do it with absolutely no grace or style, but we don't care, its fun and its something different. I still don't canter on him, I find it really really hard to get him into canter, his trot is so bouncy, and then it gets rushed, and we end up all over the place. But, the YO has said as long as it's dry we can use one of the fields to ride in occasionally, so I'm going to try and do it there, where there's no pressure of corners or tight confines of the school. I think it will come naturally where there's a bit more space.
I took him out for a hack the other day, (in company - we still don't hack solo) and it was the first one for about 3 weeks, and he was steady as a rock.
Anyway, his lordship says hello to you all... He's breathing a sigh of relief, cos mum is stuck indoors while the men are putting a new boiler in, so that means she can't get up the yard and make him do more silly jumping ;)
http://www.tammaro.plus.com/pumpkin.jpg