Britton Farm Livery Stables

04/09/2024

Having a blast at Sandwich Bay ! Where’s your favourite beach to ride ?

03/09/2024

It’s been a busy week with lots of adventures, trips out for lessons, group hacks, trips to the pub and even beach ride’s !
What have you been up to this week with your horses ?

29/08/2024

Good boys Carlton and Hendrix this evening 😀

28/08/2024

Full clip for the most handsome kev 🤍

27/08/2024

Thieves are active in the Lyminge area. Yard broken into and tools stolen.
Please be extra vigilant and report all suspicious activity, persons and vehicles to the Police and Kent HorseWatch

26/08/2024

I hope you all had a wonderful bank holiday weekend! Nice to see everyone enjoying themselves with their lessons. Looking fantastic 🐎😀

25/08/2024

The best cheesecake known to man. Thank you everyone for coming to the yard bbq today and for the delicious things that you made and brought with you. X

25/08/2024

Today’s a great day! Gridwork lessons and Pole as well as the annual yard BBQ. Can’t wait to see you later 😎

22/08/2024

18/08/2024

Lots of our liveries out hacking today enjoying the countryside 😎

14/08/2024

Anna enjoying the stubble fields on her new pony Dolly, a beautiful summers evening. 🥰

13/08/2024

A great day out for all the family !

12/08/2024

An informative morning from the Baileys feed rep talking about feed and nutrition to maintain the optimum condition for the horses. Nice to have lots of compliments on the horses she looked at. ❤️🐎

09/08/2024

**** COLIC = CALL THE VET! ****

Having just been alerted to the most terrifying FB post I’ve seen for a while, with someone asking for advice for their poor horse with “mild” colic, I feel the need to share a bit of advice.

If your horse has ANY kind of colic symptoms then DO NOT ASK FB FOR ADVICE; CALL YOUR VET!!!!!

A horse that is going down unless forced to walk does not have “mild” colic; he has extremely obvious colic that may be fatal within hours.

I am still shocked when I hear people state that the horse won’t eat, is pawing the ground, even going down, but because he/she isn’t thrashing about then it isn’t colic.

The most common early symptom of colic, is a horse that doesn’t want to eat. He may just be standing there very quietly, and yes, may also have a “twisted gut” that requires surgery. It is actually very rare for me to see a colic, even a surgical colic, that is thrashing about on the floor. More often, it’s a quiet horse, off food, intermittently going down.

Also please DO NOT GIVE YOUR HORSE ANY DAMN BUTE!!!! This will make it tricky for your vet to assess the severity when he/she arrives 30-60 minutes later, as it will have started to work.

I’ll do some more colic posts soon, but the important message this evening is:

IF YOU HAVE EVEN THE SLIGHTEST SUSPICION THAT YOUR HORSE HAS COLIC, CALL YOUR VET IMMEDIATELY. Leaving a horse in agony with “belly ache” is just as bad as an elite competition horse working 1.65 degrees overbent. Welfare starts in the stable. But that’s another post.

06/08/2024

Some of the horses enjoyed agility training more than others 😂 well ridden Caroline 🤩

04/08/2024

A great morning at the yard today doing agility training with Jo Carroll Equine Services. Lots learnt and achieved by us all. Thank you for the smiles ###

03/08/2024

Nice getting back in the saddle 🥰

03/08/2024

Sometimes liveries pay a little visit to Goodnestone and take a quick pit stop at Fitzwalter Arms 😀

02/08/2024

Lacys first trip to the local pub 🥰 The Duke William Ickham

30/07/2024

Team GB have their first GOLD of the games!

Ros Canter, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen have won the team eventing 🥇 🐎

20/07/2024

It’s a lemon drizzle cake and pole clinic kind of day 😀 have fun 😀

19/07/2024

A great local sponsored ride to support 🤩

18/07/2024

Lovely having Caroline and Sophie visiting myself, Mike and Tillie at the pub! A quick pit stop mid ride ! 🐎

16/07/2024

Handsome boys relaxing in their stables today 🌟