Catherine Lorimer's Guide to Life

This weeks podcast is about a really awful week that I had, my Fell pony became really ill while I was at work and I was also really ill.
It makes you realise that you can go from 100% to 10% in the space of a day and it has made me appreciate my health and that I need to ensure that I am living in the present moment and not thinking about the past or the present.

Having a great team around me ensured that I was able to carry on and my pony got the treatment that he needed.

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Do you get confused about what wormer to use when, whether we should be using wormer or testing for worm counts instead. Are you getting frustrated that the cost of testing is more than the wormer.  Have a listen to my podcast I run through what we should be doing and why, then come up with a plan of what is realistic to do in a cost effective way.

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This is a topic I see being asked a lot and having owned a really wet horse and wanting to stop the muck heap from becoming the size of the Himalayas. I tried loads of different types of bedding to find which was the best one to use.

I also chat about deep shavings beds and shallow beds on rubber matting and the impact on respiratory health. 

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As an amateur rider should I clip my horse for the winter? I chat about why we clip a horse, what clips there are and what might suit different horses for amateur riders. 

I also chat about my experience of using different types of clippers issues I have had and a bit about clipper maintenance.

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This week Jane and I have been discussing rugs and what we should rug be rugging our horses or not.  I go through the reasoning behind rugging your horse, different materials on the outside and different fills and why I think its important to rug a veteran horse to stop them loosing condition.

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With most livery yards being full of strong minded, strong willed equestrian women, myself included this weeks podcasts provides guidance on communication.

I chat about some of the communication errors that I have made and how I would handle things differently next time and what were my communication successes this week.

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Most equestrians dream of keeping their horse at home and having kept my horse on livery for ten years and then been lucky enough to achieve my dream and keep my horse at home for ten years. I compare the two and provide a realistic view of my experience of keeping a horse at home.
Just how much did I actually ride when I kept my horses at home?

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This week on my Podcast I am chatting about colic as we had a possible colic on the yard and having had two horses which had Colic, both of which were caught early and without surgical intervention, I thought I would share my experience of these with everyone.  
This podcase is particularly useful to first time horse owners.  

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One this weeks Podcast I am chatting about Fun Rides and you may have seen my friend Jane and I doing a few of them on social media.

I chat about what fun rides are, fun ride etiquette, fitness and preparation,  transport and how to find a fun ride buddy.

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