Weston Mill Stables

02/03/2025

Baby's snooze in the sunshine. Happy Sunday everyone 😍💜

12/02/2025

Some of our beautiful horses at weston Mill 🥰🤩 our baby trigger new toy for his stable full of toys! Would love to see people's ideas and toys in their stable 🤔 as I think he has just about everything I can think of!
Would love to see people's photos 🤩 ⏬️⏬️comment below your favourite horse toy ⏬️⏬️

10/02/2025

The baby's sure enjoyed their ice cream lolly pops off our lovely livery emilie 💜 treating all the horses to a refreshing treat 🤩 looks so good I could eat it 👌

26/01/2025

Leo enjoying his evening ride 💙🩵

21/01/2025

Spaces have come available
Indoor and outdoor Stables available
Please contact me for more information

19/01/2025

For all the budding young farriers out there. Good Luck

Farriery Apprenticeship

15/01/2025

𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜

We’ve had a few cases of sand impactions in the last few weeks. It is more commonly seen in summer when horses are kept on sandy bare pastures. Laminitis prone animals are especially susceptible as they are kept on poorer pastures.
Risk factors include insufficient roughage in the diet and the sand and mineral composition of the soil.

Clinical signs include colic, diarrhoea, weight loss and poor performance.
Colon displacements may occur as a consequence of the sand impaction leading to more aggressive colic symptoms, reduced droppings and decreased intestinal sounds. Sand sounds may be heard on the ventral (bottom) of the abdomen. It is difficult to differentiate between sand colic and other impactions.

Horses usually improve with pain relief and signs can last weeks.
Sand in the faeces may be observes by adding water to six f***l balls in a bag or re**al glove and allowing the sand to settle to the bottom. While some sand will always be present if more than 1 teaspoon is present it is considered excessive.

These colics are most often treated medically but surgical intervention may be necessary if pain is uncontrollable or medical treatment becomes prolonged. These types of impactions more frequently require surgery compared to feed impactions. Medical treatment includes removing the horse from access to sand, rehydrating and using laxatives. While it’s not known how effective it is, Psyllium hull can used in the treatment at much higher doses given through a stomach tube and in the prevention of sand impaction when added to the diet. (Once to twice daily for two to three weeks, then one week off) . Other prevention methods include adequate roughage, not feeding from the ground and providing extra when pastures are insufficient along with adequate exercise.

07/01/2025

COLIC ADVICE 🥰

*** COLIC MYTH - IT’S ESSENTIAL TO WALK ANY HORSE SHOWING SIGNS OF COLIC ***

I’ve unfortunately seen 5 colics in the past two weeks, so I thought I’d start some colic posts again.

I think one of the main myths surrounding colic, is that you must walk them, even if they don’t want to walk. There are definitely some types of colic when movement is good/essential for the horse, but there are equally many occasions when it’s actually detrimental to keep the horse moving.

Before knowing whether or not you need to keep your horse moving, you need your vet to diagnose what is causing your horse to colic. If your horse has a classic “twisted gut” then no amount of movement will help. In fact, forcing horses to walk if they’ve got intestinal torsion will result in extreme pain. If surgery is an option, then continuing to walk a horse with intestinal torsion (twisted gut) will also wear him out, and potentially cause even more damage to the gut itself, reducing the odds of surgery being a success.

My general rule of thumb for any colicking horse is to allow them to do what they want to do whilst waiting for the vet. If they are standing quietly, then that’s perfect. If they are down in the field then I do normally advise getting them up and to somewhere easily accessible for the vet. If they are thrashing about in a stable and could hurt themselves, then getting them out and into the safety of a lunge pen or arena is a good idea, as long as you don’t risk injuring yourself. If they want to march around, then let them walk. It’s a complete myth that a horse rolling around will result in him twisting his intestine; we’d obviously be seeing hundreds of colic cases daily if this were true.

To conclude, walking a horse with colic MAY be advisable, but you need your vet to diagnose the cause of the colic first. If your horse is reluctant to walk, then definitely don’t force them to move.

04/01/2025

Quick release knot

04/01/2025

Very interesting

28/12/2024

♥️

27/12/2024

1 stable available from the 5th of January🐎🦄
Full livery available
Part livery available
Sales livery available
Diy assistant livery available
🐎🦄

22/12/2024

FARM Horse hoof

16/12/2024

Happy Monday everyone 😁
Lovely start to the week & only 9 more sleep till Christmas 🎄 🎅🤶🧑‍🎄

Stay bright Stay seen and stay safe 🥰💜