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| Nic |
OctoberIts October, folks...Bill and Hector, our latest recruits, are now hunting and loving it, and we have a new DDFT rehab horse, Erik, who will be a very interesting case. More info about all of them on the blog! Nic |
| Yann |
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 
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| rose |
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. |
| hobnob |
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 ?? |
| brucea |
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. |
| brucea |
AARRGHHHH!!!!!!! 
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. 
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| hobnob |
Poor Link - hope he's OK now. Is it always Eqvalan that he colics with?Did you see anything in his poo ? |
| brucea |
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! 
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| hobnob |
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. Get well soon Link 
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| brucea |
Well - he's fine, and ravenous! That's always a good sign in horses and little boys. |
| SueH |
Aah sorry to hear Link was sick and glad he on the mend. Next time I would squirt that wormer in the dirt and say nought. Sorry YO, but if enforced wormers are causing colic then they gotta go ( I love lentils, would happily smoke alfalfa if it gave me a kick, but none are these are givin my neddy colic ). Does YO enforce poo testing too?
Chiropractor visit on Wed - chiropractor found stiffness in hip-back muscles on right side = same side as dodgy hock which is apparently not what she'd expect -it would normally be on opp side. So, she thinks he may be tightness pulling on his hip on right side, interfering with right hock rather than other way around. She then did her hammering - Jake was surprisingly unbothered by all the banging. Advice, movement in straight lines, keep key muscles on right free, which we are doing but we need to get stricter with stretches. No discussion of shoes with this chiropractor - all her neddies barefoot anyway )
Jake out yesterday with favourite mare chum (about to go barefoot too) after 4 day rest following chiropractor. Booted on front as we on lanes (as normal) and he fully of beans, no hint of stumbling, short trots were sound so fink we on the mend. expanded paddock as it go so muddy with no ill effect on feet. Next week we'll try going back onto the mountain )) Lovely long trails of smooth grassy tracks - cant wait
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| Sarah |
Had an interesting few weeks.
Fari had to become solitary numero uno horse for a quite few weeks and he did an excellent job at the fun rides, popping all the nice friendly Fari jumps and enjoying himself and going wehay with a frolic after the bigger ones  .
NJH has had a poorly paw on and off for the last 5 weeks. Came back from Devon and started to have puss oozing from his right front from the crack where his frog and heel are very contracted. You couldn't drag a hoof pick through it so I soaked it a few days on the trot and he then came sound and off we went flat working and fun riding. Back lame again a few days later not surprising because on inspection his heels were splitting, looked rather impressive  . Infection was trying to exit big time. Sound again a week later so out for a hack, by the time he came back he was hoppy again. I wobbled now because you could drag a hoof pick through the crack no problem, thought I might have a tendon or ligament issue but then when you wiggled the hoof pick he hit the clouds so no surprise he was lame then  .
Back to soaking and this time syringing through the crack to flush it out with salt water. This was last week. Just for good measure I poured manuka honey into the crack and plugged with cotton wool soaked in Terramycin spray. Sock it to the b****d bugs I thought .
By Friday he was marching about the tracks and being a hooligan. Saturday still OK so out yesterday to a fun ride (did give him 1/2 bute just to be safe brakes were a little dodgy as a result!!!) and he was great. Over lots of the jumps (100 in total !!!! ye ha!) and this morning still marching and of course not now on bute. Hopefully maintenance flushing will stop any further recurrence and knock it on the head for good. I have fingers and toes crossed for a hunter trial this Sunday. Lovely photo of him flying over a tree trunk at http://www.photoboxgallery.com/photosport/8224472 He is number Jul-6396 on the Isle Fun Ride page 3. Fari has a sweet one, looking serious going over a pole Sansaw ride page 11 Jul-5622, bless his little arab socks
Other news is that Fari has been going on my uncut hay field for the last week at night and seems to have coped. No marked deterioration in his ability to negotiate my knarly track so looks like he can cope with long feggy winter grass. S x |
| Jane |
Technically September, but here's our pics from our last event of the season.... we came 9th and were early 30 seconds inside the time!!
First fence SJ http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xOQheqR...AAAos/kYGgNERK9mc/s1600-h/SJ1.jpg SJ 6 - plenty of room! http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xOQheqR...AAAo0/IIaT9g0zdJ0/s1600-h/SJ6.jpg Hedge on sharp left turn http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xOQheqR...E/bJ8ss9Ii0Xw/s1600-h/xchedge.jpg Me looking in the ditch, tsk tsk. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xOQheqR...pM/FmDvhe6QEJk/s1600-h/xctrak.jpg 
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| Sarah |
Te he! Nice hat!
Think I'd be a looking in that ditch too me deary. Great tail on Magic in the ditch shot. Bless he'll never need extensions 
Do you think thick tails mean jumping performance? hope so, NJH has a very thick one. S x |
| Terry |
Those winter nights are drawing in! Endurance season now finished with gang and just the marathon left next weekend on a friends shod stallion.
Well I am pretty impressed with the boys despite a busy season bringing 2 out and breaking another they have all achieved the goals I set for them. Abu is just awsome, no problems all year, been out jumping with my niece, she now wants to affiliate him BSJA for the winter but I will have to see!! He came out with very little training and completed 2 50 mile rides, probably the toughest 2 on the calander. Medraar, after a slow start with soggy heals at the beginning of the season he managed amongst plenty of training rides a 30 mile and 40 mile in sucession , ready to come out and do 50 miles early next year. Sakr, was broken in no problem at all and despite being 4 years old and having feet that resemble a 6 month old foal has managed incredibly well. His feet are changing with our remoddling work causing well let's say the odd abcess but he has been the perfect patient! He will be finishing the year with a 19 mile pleasure ride on Oct 19th. The babies, Max 2 years old and yearling Bonanza are great and busy spending careless days playing and having fun!! Also learning to be good boys during their peadicure!! Terry |
| SueH |
Fab pictures of Magic Fari (who is just a sweetie!!) and Foxy
I've noticed Jake has lateral crack in right foot - the one that's lame. I dont know if this is abscess which has burst from top. It appear last week and I keep staring at it, wondering if this was cause / contributed to lameness. I didnt pick up strong digital pulse but wasnt checking around the time it must have appeared as I was going with the riding-without-boots-on-hard-ground-navicular as reason for lameness. I'm leaving it well alone. But wondering if this is reason he's feeling more feisty lately. Will continue to boot and exercise lightly with trial trots (currently short ones look sound) and build up gently. Jake is on more grass cos muddy paddock getting wetter and nastier. No obvious problems from additional grass which was cut in August/September and now about 6-9" long. It must take good still though cos he turns his nose up at hay and will only eat haylage. Just when its winter, my neddy is recovering. hey ho - have some show jumpers moved in locally, and I can use their school as know the owner of the yard. should be fun
x Sue x Sue |
| cptrayes |
I am struggling so badly with Jazz's pulses that he is currently only on grass, and muzzled even then, for four to five hours a day. He is footy on stones he's been rockstomping on for his first 18 months here and the red light is definitely flashing on the dashboard .
After two days with no grass, we finally have no pulse and got the definition back in his legs, so a slight sigh of relief But also a hurrumph  at how much damned grass there is and how potent it is for this time of year at this height. I've never known anything like it in 18 years. It is such a pain to have to restrict his daytime grazing when he is in all night anyway because of the weather. We gave him a radio today and he was definitely staying close to it, because all his poo was in a ring around it, instead of spread out around the barn he lives in .
The other two are great, particularly the Irish halfbred George, who would be exactly the kind of horse you would worry about laminitis in - chunky and a good doer. C |
| hobnob |
We are not footy but with strip grazing foot high yellowy grass we have fast disappearing ribs! So there has got to be something left in it !! Cut hay quota down a tiny bit today so we can find those ribs again! I envy those ad lib hay people. Have a whole acre of this foot high grass to get through before next spring. The boggy bit of this field is even growing Willow on its own and thats about 7 foot high. One could get the gardener to shape it into a growing archway !!! Have a nice muddy track all the way round which is fast growing into a mini Canal Turn at Aintree !!
Back to feet - cut some raggy BLACK frog off today and it was a bit smelly so must nip this in the bud before frogs AND ribs disappear - ooh what fun we all have !!
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| evie |
Got the all clear from the vet to start working Hera again. He reckons the remaining slight puffiness is secondary to foot pain, she was reluctant to trot on the nasty rough concrete yard (as always - soles not up to much at the mo, but are juuuust starting to exfoliate to give me a lot more concavity), but hooleyed and showed off her soundness and gorgeous paces spectacularly in the grass paddock. Tendon scan showed nothing at all.
We're about 6 weeks away from the new hoof capsule hitting the floor, vet reckons that the niggling puffiness will go away magically when the feet sort themselves. I heart my vet! Says to start walk work on the roads in G2s, coddle her legs - bandage overnight, nekkid/mag boots for turnout. Very happy little person here - just need to find someone to babysit us, as she was very *rear* *flybuck x 3* *bogoff* on the lunge for the vet, and I'd rather she didn't try any of that with me aboard til I get my sea legs back! Condition wise she looks amazing now, great covering all over, shiny and fab - just need to get those tummy muscles toned again. Management is changing to in at night when the yard changes over, as Sooti is now safely installed in her new home and every other horse on the place will be in. She has huge box with megazorb to lie on and concrete to stand on to eat her hay, so we'll see how we go.
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| SueH |
Jake seemed much improved yesterday, and very feisty following week's rest with only 10 min walks here and there.
Took him and his megabelly out with two of his fav chicks. Did first section of hack prancing sideways beautifully (and sound) as we rode past a young colt saying hello from adjacent field. Very forward for whole hack, chomping at the bit, sure footed. So lovely to see navicular neddy back on best form. See how is with instructor tomorrow, and will continue to boot unless on conformable surface which is 100% reliable. As for grass, he has big paddock now, and fair amount of grass with no obvious probs. e.g. Field shelter went up on Sunday , and I had crusher run put down as base. The stuff in the shelter was compacted and is quite hard with big angular stones, the stuff outside isnt compacted. He is walking heel first across all this unbothered.
and my lovely friend (who owns land) is happy for more crusher run/road planings to go down and pea gravel inside.
x Sue |
| brucea |
Not a great day for Bramble. He got suddenly much worse in his breathing and we had to call vet. RAO with a deep seated chest infection - where on earth did that come from? No one else has had that - but I guess if his breathing is compromised he's not shifting volumes of air from his lungs and this is the inevitable consequence.
Limited in what we can give him due to his laminitis - so no steroids. Now on antibiotics for 21 days, sputolosin and ventipulmin - not my first choice for him really, but need to do it to get him over this hump. |
| hobnob |
Poor litte Bramble - I am sorry for the little mite. Let us know how he goes.
All OK here foot wise mid Oct. Having long grass - strip grazed so pone thinks she is in heaven !! |
| SueH |
Ah I so sorry to hear Bramble not well - here's wishing him speedy recovery. Hope drugs do the job - could you use pro-biotic after perhaps to help restore good bacteria in gut ?
Jake appears to be sound again and is feeling 'well'. Had lesson today and we intended for him to take it easy as part of his recovery. So, the aim was to do some gentle work on single rein, but he had other ideas and ye-ha'd round the arena everytime I went into a trot, all good and sound. Local British Dressage judge was teaching in next school and passed by, GOK what he thought about the hippy in hi-viz whizzing round on buckeroo TB in football boots and rope halter ....
Jake danced most of the way home, flirted with every mare on the way, with lovely heel-first action. So relieved we are back on form. x Sue |
| hobnob |
I know how you feel Sue - well done Jake and mum !! Winter suddenly takes on a meaning when you have GRASS issues !!
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| brucea |
Well, little chap is a bit better this morning now the antibiotics and other drugs are kicking in, and is at least able to breathe a little without heaving quite so much. Still not good though - resting respiration about the 28 mark, and tight wheeze. Bright, clear, cold and windy here which is really perfect for him.
He did have the energy to go romping up to Link in the lane, try to steal his bucket and then kick Link in the chest! It's the look of indignation when Link just shoves him to one side after pulling a stunt like that, what DID he expect! Lucky Link is pretty tollerant. Pony really has a bit of a Napoleon mentality sometimes. |
| hobnob |
Glad to hear Bramble starting to mend. You probably know but there are some amazing herbal supplements for RAO. Global Herbs etc. I have used Hilton's Freeway with brill results and NAF Respirator is also great. Some of our customers have been able to take horses off Ventipulmin when they started Respirator. You will know when it takes effect as you will find piles of snot (sorry - no other way to describe that one !!) in the stable or down the door. Possibly not in Brambles case as he is probably too little to look over the door ! |
| Yann |
Tess is now markedly more comfortable on her way to and from the field, and there are distinct signs of solar concavity returning once again
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| brucea |
Now the antibiotics and other drugs kicking in the litle lad is brightening up a good bit. Still wheezing quite a bit though. We're frog marching him out twice a day and that's helping.
His feet though are superb - just over the last month he has gone from being very gimpy on the stony track and really needing his boots to being confident - still the occasional replacing of his feet - can;t blame him, the area we have to walk over is like ballbearings on a stone floor! That's the 6 month mark this week from his laminitic attack, so in all we are very pleased with his progress. He's back out driving short distances, hacking out with the "big" horses. Getting his amazing winter hairy coat on. He has developed quite deep lateral groves, and I'd like to see his frogs develop more - they are still a bit wimpy. Link and Polly just brilliant. School holidays at the moment so I've lost my horse to my wee lad. |
| sarahh |
Not much performance to report this month, as Boy broke me at the beginning of it and has been enjoying time as a field ornament
I have noticed the colder weather we have been experiencing here in the south west has slowed the growth of both boys' feet. Neither have had much to trim off (luckily!) Before accident Boy was continuing to be rock crunching, and enjoying long hacks with excellent looking feet. must take pics when we start on them again! Tyler is in the process of being backed now than ankle is starting to function again, performing well so far, can't wait to get some roadwork miles on his feet. His cracks have gone now, the event line of his move to me is nearly at the floor & digital cushions still ace. Again, must take pics!!!! Courtesy of my friend, here is a pic of my little man & me, second time on board
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| Jane |
Well, the first big news here is that mine all got wormed :sharpintakeofbreath: and NO ONE was more footy after, not even Dan who was much worse last winter. I think that proves to me that the wormers aren't so much of a problem with a horse with healthy guts (and probiotics!)... but they sure did have an impact on him when he was still racehorse mode.
New navicular rehab arrived last sat, I rode him and watched him with his front shoes on - sound (or bilaterally lame - you decide!) on straight lines, crippled on turns whatever the surface. Shoes came off - he has convex feet and long toes... He's now sound as a pound on the grass, even on turns .... he's a bit more careful on the knobbly concrete, but is still better on turns than he was in shoes. He's been here 6 days and the improvement in that time is amazing. I bought him some cavallos (£60!!!! bargain) for when he's in the yard. Vet came for jabs and was really funny, told me how nice I was to give him a second chance, but then when I told her his diagnosis she went a big grey and could only muster an 'oh dear'!!!! I have the faith though, and the xrays!!
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| brucea |
All the horses in our yard are being worm counted on Sunday. Just been wormed 3 weeks ago with Eqvalan, on the yard worming program, but one of the mares that moved to another yard last weekend was wormed and produced heaps of "white worms" and on testing has been found to have a very high count indeed. So the whole lot are gettign counted. |
| hobnob |
Had a visit from the dentist today to have both pones teeth done. All OK - just a rasp etc.
Now moving elec fence am and pm and weather is getting colder and grass is really quite dead. (not when frosty though). No probs so far. LGL pone definately feels the stones when feet are saturated. Have been using NAF Hoof and Sole (zinc paint on stuff) for a week now and starting to see an improvement. Have decided that NSF hoof is pretty much perfect but OSF could do with more beefing up at the back. I am still keeping the breakover well back although this foot (the only one that has ever showed any pulse/heat in the past) is definately more oval as opposed to NSF which is really round. It lands heel first, has no event lines left - I suppose it will come in time but the heel is definately not as spread as the other one. |
| hobnob |
Rather scary thing just happened - just need to share ...!
Non LGL pony just choked on a carrot! Blooming 'ell scary or what. He decided after much coughing and spluttering and mummy rubbing his gullet, that to die would be a good option I have never know a pony like it !! He laid down in the MUD flat out on his side as if he had given up totally. Managed to get him up and did more gullet rubbing etc and luckily hes OK now.
He did the same "I'm outta here" act years ago during a mild bought of colic. Funny as he is such a wilfull chap ... |
| brucea |
it is SO scary when they do that - Link choked on his feed a year ago (I made it just a bit too dry one day, and being a glutton he honked it down anyway) - I called the vet out right away - by the time she came, I'd kind of sorted it out by syringing about a gallon of warm water down his gullet - but he was very sore for a few days.
Now I always check I've made the feed wet enough, and cut carrots long ways, and stamp on the windfalls... Once round that experience was quite enough 
Freezing up here - was snowing earlier, was all white and pretty this morning. |
| hobnob |
Nice and brown and muddy down here in Devon !! |
| brucea |
Well - Halloween today and the kids are oll off to school with costumes for a party. Hardly seems yesterday that it was Easter and the leaves were coming out on the trees.
Alternating between bright and sunny and cold, and windy wet and cold, but it seems that we have been getting off lightly compared to Devon. The counts from the yard worm counting program came back. Seems like that wormy mare was a one off. The only horse in the yard with a worm count higher than the minimum <50 was ... Bramble! Vet recommends Equest, but he starts on VermX for 5 days today and then worm count in 21 days. He and Polly live in the sand paddock together, it's cleaned every day, they were both counted in the spring and came out <50, neither were wormed last time round so it's not surprising there might be a build up. I just didn't want to take the risk of piling chemical wormers on him when he was already in crisis. All our guys are fine. Trimmed Apollo's feet at the weekend and after doing the fronts had to have a cup of tea and slice of fruit cake before facing the hinds!!! I just can't do his feet with anything but a fairly new and sharp rasp - just too hard. Grow quickly too. Bramble sees the vet again today - still wheezing. Unfortunately we got some haylage and it made him slightly footy over the last 10 days - so he's back on damped down hay. Haylage just seems to be too easily digestible for him. Also there's something else going on with his feet - seems to be building up false sole again. Got a delivery of herbs for him earlier his week so he is on a mix to help with his breathing. Link's just great. We had a wet and windy Parelli play day at the yard a few weeks ago and one of the ladies had come without a horse, so she "borrowed" Link with some trepidation because he's quite big, and she knew him to be a bit of a snorting monster in the past. He was perfectly sweet with her and really chilled. I've heard it back from a few folks how surprised she was in the change that had come over him in the last couple of years, like a diffferent horse. Must be getting some things right - one lives and one learns. Fizz is over her latest abcess, but insists on having fights with other mares, fences, rocks.... a bit self destructive, not quite right in the head. |
| SueH |
Sorryto hear of horrible choking but glad it ended OK. This time of year whilst its chilly and the grass has no umpf, Jake is really gobbles up grub, so I do worry about choking. I am maknig his feed quite sloppy - gets the fluids in there too.
Tape worm count came back as extremely low so Vet advised no need to worm for that. Worm counts due and will do that next.
Pea gravel in shelter and all round it now thanks to wonderful guys who own land and have let me do it. Have noticed Jake moves very well in deep pea gravel versus crusher run areas. Also does a Bowker: stands with front toes tipped into gravel whilst backs are more flat. more noticeable where pea gravel deepest. I close the gravel pen so he stays in there for about an hour in the morning to let his feet dry off from the mud.
I'm working through Parelli level 1 with my neddy who has issues bless him (kind of bi-polar version of Kevin the teenager) and its rather nice to squeeze in little sessions on pea gravel areas as J finds movnig on this so comfortable. Heavily poached area of paddock between his big paddock and field shelter/pea gravel area was putting J off coming up for shelter. But have made shavings pathway and he's happier to come across. Will keep topping this up whilst we have horrid wet weather. x Sue |
| Sarah |
All horses in my herd now have 24hr access to uncut hay field. Fari has not been affected by the grass, interestingly they choose to be on the hardcore areas when it is wet and always spend time drying their hooves during the day.
Fox has been out this month to a fun ride each weekend, no sign of lameness recurring and his central sulcus is now almost completely open on the problem hoof so I don't expect a recurrence of this lameness. This Sunday weather permitting we will go to the opening meet of a drag hunt ye ha! The other boys are having a bit of an easy time. Due to house building I am not finding much time to ride them. It is almost a year since Jesta's episode with septecaemia and I think he is almost over his muscle problems. I'll give him to the spring though before even thinking about attempting to ride him. God help me when I have four to get fit. Might need a helper???! So nearly Novemember!!! Here's to the run up to Xmas and drag hunting each weekend with Caroline
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| Jane |
End of October report...
They are all out on the hayfield, yippee! The Lami and nav horses are now in 12hrs and out 12 hrs . The other 4 are free range. New nav horse is just gorgeous. Sound as a pound and not needing boots in the yard any more. Still hacking in them but probably only for a few more weeks. For a horse that was soooo toe first in shoes, he's frighteningly heel first out of them... ho hum, mustn't grumble!
Everyone else going great guns. Its taken a year but Dan has now earned his 'second string to Magic' stripes and is going for RC lessons and had his first grown up jumpies lesson yesterday. I have the same problem of too many to ride - but have decided I am ony ever having TB's that have already raced in future as they are sooooo easy to keep fit!! Also my oh-so traditional mother has even started trying to convert people after she's decided Ben's feet are the hardest and best they've ever been
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| hobnob |
We are still very muddy but luckily 12 miles away from the East Devon hail storm on Wed pm. I am coming out in sympathy with Bramble and have been wheezing and spluttering for a couple of weeks myself. Went to docs today and have a high temperature and a chest infection Reluctantly gave me some antibiotics so I will be adding Pink Powder to my feed and soaking my hay !!!
Ponies are both great. Can still feel LGL pones ribs which I am not too sure about in the winter ?!?! as she is unrugged. But getting hay and long grass by strip grazing so I may aim at getting a slight fat covering ! No such probs with fat covering for me. Husband did the weekly shop as I have had a couple of days off work feeling rotten and bought lots of goodies that I normally dont !! Feed a cold - starve a fever - Doesnt work for me !!
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| brucea |
Damn, Damn and double damn...
I switched little puddock on to haylage over the last week to help him with the breathin, and now he's gone footy. Either it's the haylage or the ventipulmin/sputolosin/antibiotics. Put him back on soaked hay yesterday. Ventipulmin and sputolosin finished yesterday. Antibiotics 3 days to go. Vet was here today - his chest is better, but now his feet are sore. Win one, loose one. |
| rose |
I have put my girl out in to the 'big field' today hoping that the snow and freezing wind we have had will have stopped the grass growing. I'll check her pulses first thing in the morning and hopefully she will be fine and she can stay out in the big field for the winter.
It has been a long 7 months with her in her small fenced off paddock what with twice daily feeding, daily poo picking and daily exercise and mud mud mud!!! I almost look forward to the winter months just for the rest! |