12th April 2019

Marty and the Fifth Gotcha Day

Marty (and my ensuing mule obsession) came into my life five years ago, on April 13th 2014! I’m very glad he did, although there have certainly been times when I’ve...

7th July 2018

Team Half-Ass and the Track System Update

The last time I wrote about our track system attempts was back in May last year. Towards the end of the year I abandoned the track idea because it was...

24th November 2017

Why the tarpaulin?

Originally posted on the Facebook page – go here to see the comments, as there were plenty of interesting ones. I recently read a rant about equines being asked to...

13th June 2017

Q&A with Team Half-Ass: part two

The second half of the questions sent in via Facebook! You can read the first half here. 6. How does caring for a mule differ to horses and donkeys? I’ll...

2nd June 2017

Team Half-Ass and the Great Big Catch-Up!

Whoops, time for a catch-up! Every two months, things get a little busy here as I finish putting the magazine together and get it sent to the printer. We were particularly...

5th May 2017

Team Half-Ass and the Hill Track

Last weekend, Xato and I attended Joe Wolter’s first UK clinic down in Devon. I will be doing a write-up of that very soon, but it requires a certain amount...

17th January 2017

Team Half-Ass and Mucking About in Fields

Lately, Marty has been objecting to using his pen for evening feed. This has been quite frustrating, bearing in mind that he has gone into the same pen to be...

23rd October 2016

The Track, version 2.0

I thought I would write a little bit about our track at the moment. This is the second year that we’ve run one over winter, and I’m trying to learn...

21st August 2016

Marty and the Enrichment Party

As mentioned in last week’s post, I worried about keeping Marty entertained now that he’s back on our set-up. Part of my attempts to make things more interesting included trying out some of...

16th August 2016

Marty and the Ch-ch-ch-changes

So since last week’s post, Marty has moved back onto the livery yard where we keep our horses. This is a shame as I felt that set-up was ideal for him,...