I have two rock crunchers, with Jazz doing much better than last year by keeping him in during the day. My barn stinks of pee and I've had to dig out and replace the surface in their two favourite spots, but heck I'd rather that than hoof-boots
Radar's shoes would now be impossible to nail to his feet. I'll get a photo later but after 4 months with no shoes his front feet are now smaller than the ring of nail holes in the shoes!
He also has two markedly different front feet. One is superb, the other is flared and has recently abcessed after addressing an under-run heel. This matches with why he has been the most outrageously one-sided horse I have ever trained. Unbroken at six, he had simply become terribly left handed and found going right with a rider almost impossible!
That is changing with schooling, and so are his feet. The photos will show that they will soon be a pair. Meanwhile, he has taken to jumping big-time, has grown into a devilishly handsome black beastie and is on target to be the horse the Master most wants to be riding, shoes or no shoes .
Well I need to do something about Link - he's become slightly footy on the rougher ground and is struggling with his weight now, Can't do anything for the next couple of days as I'm away working and there's no one I can leave to look after him - but Thursday onwards he is in the dry lot on hosed hay for a good few days until he is OK.
He tends to get swolen legs if he is left in the dry lot cos he just stands at the hay ring and watches the world - so I need to be there myself to take him out two or three times a day. Unfortunately our dry lot is fine for a couple of ponies but 3 stretches it a bit. _________________ http://www.4hooves.co.uk http://4hoovesblog.spaces.live.com/default.aspx
Butternut Squash took just two lessons to learn "ask", where he will strike the ground with a forefoot on the command. I plan to teach him "bow" next and "up" after that.
I tried a muzzle on him overnight to reduce his rather wobbly little belly, but it rubbed him in several places so I gave it up. He also lost too much weight in three nights, and I didn't think it was fair to put it on some nights and not others - a bit like mental torture He is solid on his feet and as long as he stays that way I will just accept the belly, cos it's cute anyway
His feet are the cutest little mustang things you ever saw. Small, solid, heel first landing obvious even though they are barely two inches across And I can vouch for the fact that when he is trying to reach the gate that you forgot to shut before you can get to it to stop him running down the road, he has no trouble putting on a fair turn of speed
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Attached a pic of Radar's dissimilar feet. Interesting, eh - in shoes they were identical size and shape, though the worse one had an off-centre frog. You can see the more flared one is going to be fine in a few months.
I did get one shot of each, I thought, but the close shot of the better foot turned out to be an out of focus picture of his knee .
I don't think there can be any doubt about Radar's desirability, Caroline
On the performance front down here, Felix, Charlie and Jacko had their first day of the new season yetserday morning, and were absolutely delighted to be out again - huge relief for Felix, who viewed Ride Bare as Ride Boring
Ghost looking marvellous, and the swelling in his leg is almost completely gone, so I will take him out again at the weekend - really looking forward to that
Bailey and Angel are on the back-burner this week, but Bailey is fairly fit so Andy will hunt her next week, I should think.
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and is on target to be the horse the Master most wants to be riding, shoes or no shoes 
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He is solid on his feet and as long as he stays that way I will just accept the belly, cos it's cute anyway 
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