Tess has picked up again now the weather has worsened and I've stopped having to boot her to take her back down to the field. Walls are still flared but the soles are showing the first signs of recovery.
Rio is now 100% rock crunching over all surfaces but now falls outside the remit of this thread
Well my girl has continued to improve and I was riding out in front boots only again. She then threw a splint just below her knee so more time off work.
Why-o-why didn't I take up some easier hobby when I was a child!!
Her hoofies look lovely though, nice concavity on the backs.
I am increasing her paddock every other day to give her access to a bit more grass and so far so good - no pulses or increased footyness.
Fingers crossed we are heading in to a good spell over the winter months.
We are starting October well also. Both ponies now look like wooly mammoths. LGL mammoth is fine. Wormed them 10 days ago with Equitape (tapewormer) after a 5 day session with the herbal Verm X. No side-effects from tapewormer I'm pleased to add. Feet and coats look amazing but we are getting muddier again so standing in barn to eat hay at night in an attempt not to saturate feet!! They come and go as they want so probably stand in mud again when hay all gone. Still having elec fence moved every night to old long grass. We have an acre to get through in the next few months !! Also this time last year we would have been plagued with THRUSH but now we have much healthier frogs thanks to our heel first landings. Fingers crossed (as normal) !!
Greedy pony is using the track system to full advantage at the moment. I watched her on and off the other day and as it was a bit windy and the leaves are coming off the trees she must have walked round and round most of the day gathering up freshly fallen leaves to shovel down her gullet !! Mostly hazel and hawthorn - doesnt like sycamore !! She must have walked miles and always anti clockwise ??
Weather up here in the north is alternating between sunny and absolutely freezing, to windy, wet and absolutely freezing! Winter is a coming in. The Met office says it's going to be a drier and milder winter....so they haven't spent any time in Aberdeen then! We get 2 kinds of rain here - horizontal or vertical - today its horizontal!
All our lads great, but much hungrier now. All feet excellent especially Bramble. All getting wooly and wild looking. I noticed Link has some colour changes on his sole, which may be old bruising coming down - but he's coping very well and gradually we are spending more hacking out time unbooted. Still has a little deficiency in one toe where he had a bad seedy toe at one time when he was shod with toe clips. Suprised that has never completely grown out - just keep an eye on it.
We are supposed to have a Parelli play day at the yard today - but it's wind and the horizontal kind of rain.
Wormed Link on Friday - under a bit of pressure from the yard manager - all the other horses in his field wormed - the other two are in the dry lot on their own.
Today? Colic...just the same as last time. No idea why this happens. Eqvalan.
Livery yards are a hateful and unhappy compromise.
Nothing in his poo - huge healthy ones as usual....when he did eventually poo. I am pretty sure it was eqvalan last time he had problems with, but can't be absolutely sure as I didn't keep a record. He seemed OK, if still a bit subdued, when I turned him out - reconned he was better off on grass where he's been, rather than in the dry lot with hay at that point. We'll see how he is today.
We got the anti-everything vet, who didn't think it could possibly be the wormer, and had to be something to do with the "nature-children, knit your own lentils, alfalfa smoking " owners who feed such an unconventional diet and don't even use shoes,...you know the type!
May just be a coincidence - but hard to tell I suppose. The good thing is that Eqvalan will only stay in the body for a matter of hours as opposed to a Moxidectin wormer for example.
I use minimal chemicals now for worming and I dont smoke alfalfa and never had a split pea or lentil enter my kitchen. Can you pretend you have wormed your guy and use VermX instead !! Both pones and my ducks and chickens are on VermX and look fab! I now only use chemicals once a year for encysted redworm and once for the tapeworms. We have had nil egg count results too so it must be working.
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