Hi there all, welcome to the South Australian Equine Forum!

Just a couple of 'rules' for posting here.......

We would like to keep this as simple as possible for all involved.....so here goes!

# 1. Discuss, debate and disagree - but please do it fairly. Name calling and other derogatory comments will not be tolerated - offenders will have their post either modified or removed, and will be emailed with a warning to tone down. You can always take a more personal disagreement to either private message or email.

# 2. Please refrain from harassing other members, making defamatory or abusive remarks, or publicly putting down trainers, breeders, owners or other people involved in the horse industry. If you have something to say about someone that is less than positive - please take it to PM or email so as not to open up yourself or the forum to possible action from the person or persons involved.

# 3. Photos can be posted in your messages, but they must be limited to a size of no more than 600 x 600 pixels. The reason for this is images that are too wide make the screen scroll too far to the right (and that can get annoying). Photos will not influence our bandwidth, but keep in mind that images that are larger than 30kb will take a while to download on some members’ computers. If you need help resizing an image, please email admin and they will be glad to assist. Please refer to #5 for the rules regarding copyright images.

# 4. We have decided not to place too many word filters on this board. We are all human and we all know how to swear. Be mindful that there are people of ALL ages reading and participating in this forum. If it's not a word that you'd hear on TV before midnight, then don't use it on here. If you wouldn't use that word at your children or mother - don't use it here! (and for those who WOULD use those words at their children or mother - please consider that other people may not want to hear them!)

# 5. Please refrain from posting anything that is under copyright. There are stiff penalties for reproducing any material whether it be written material or images where you do not have permission from the copyright owner for its reproduction in any way shape or form. This forum takes no responsibility for what its members may put up here, but material that is blatantly copied and pasted without permission will be removed.

Links to sites are permitted however as this is not a breach of copyright. So if in doubt and you have found information or pictures you wish to share with others on the internet, please just post the link to that site with instructions on how to find what you wish to share.

# 6. Advertising is FREE.... go for your life. Just pop your ads in the appropriate sections please! Please don't post the same ad 10 times - simply edit your ad if you need to - you can even change the title. If you would like your ad to stay at the top of the page as a 'sticky', there is a small cost. PM Admin for details.

# 7. Membership - Admin and Mods reserve the right to refuse, reject or delete any membership to the forum at any time.

There is a 'three strikes and you are out rule - if you get two warnings for anything you post that is inappropriate, the third time you will be deleted from the membership list. In rare and extreme cases, it may be that the Moderators and Admin all agree that you are out on a first offense if it is something particularly horrid.

If you are on a suspension or ban - you may NOT use someone elses log in to view or comment on the forum with or without their knowledge. If caught out - it will mean a permanent ban for both yourself and the person whose log in you used.

If you are on a suspension or ban - you may NOT sign up under a different user name.

Only ONE log in per person (with the exception of moderators and admin who may have their personal log in and their moderator log in names) is allowed. Anyone caught with more than one log in name will be banned.

Please do NOT copy and paste posts or threads from this forum and post elsewhere - be that in emails, word documents, PDF files etc unless instructed to do so or permission has been sought from Admin or Moderators prior to copying them.

All horse health or veterinary type tips given on this site are the responsibility of the person posting them, and not of the forum owners or administrators. Please note that while you may receive some good tips and information on an internet forum, it should NOT replace the advice of your professionally trained Veterinary Surgeon or a trained Equine Nutritionist, Equine Body Worker etc......

As far as training tips go - people on this forum may or may not be qualified to give you information that you ask for and keep in mind that it is very difficult to explain how to correct a problem or train a horse over the internet.

Feel free to email me at any time at: saequineforum@gmail.com

Thanks to Ritchie for supplying this little gem... - a little something that is simpler than all of the above for you all to remember:

Imagine this is a dinner party. Differences of opinion are welcome but keep it respectful or the host will show you the door. If you're rude or abusive, your comment will be deleted (so will comments responding to other rude comments because they won’t make sense - so save your breath). And if you’re offensive, you’ll be banned. Remember what Fonzie was like? Cool. That's how we're going to be - cool. Have fun and thanks for adding to the conversation...