Hurray! I've been thinking of you all. Good time of year to be moving re-grass? Gives you time to prepare for the spring. Fingers and everything else crossed...
staying in a B&B with a chain on the bath and the landlady telling us in her brooooooad Scots accent "baaaaths are ten peeeeee".
Wow...you were obviously going for the cold one. It's much more if you want warm water!
Thanks all. The thing that is really concerning me is the pony moving out fo a completely bare paddock to having access to grass. Thanks to Anni's help he is in a hogely better place than he has ever been befpore - but still worried.
So it will be double at least of the MgO then, and I'll begin the pro and pre-biotics a few days before we move.
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:30 pm Post subject: Vets
At last! Have been waiting for a bit of vet bashing to have my say! Not a full time horse vet because I don't toe the party line with the rest of my profession. It is difficult when you believe that the vet profession currently has very little to offer the lame horse, and nothing to offer in terms of preventing orthopedic problems. Often feel like we are defrauding the horse owning public, and failing in our duty to the horse. I do however consider it my duty to give all my students an insight into natural hoof care, using my two neds as an example. I consider it my personal contribution to improving equine welfare!
Have also been known to buy the odd keen one a copy of Pete Rameys book. Its an uphill struggle, but not all vets are from the dark side!! (maybe just most of them!!)javascript:emoticon(':D')
Anni came today and was a little concerned about Bramble - he has been "not so good" the last few days and I was putting it down to just having so much rain and his feet being wet all the time. Slight pulse in left fore this mornign, but it was gone by this evening (when it was dark). But Anni reminded us (shows how much better he has been) that he does have a hormonal issue in early spring and mid autumn and we need to be quite vigilant.
Sometimes you can be so close to it all, you can miss something obvious going on. Which is why it's good to have another keen pair of eyes on the whole thing.
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 6:55 pm Post subject: Reply from hoofvet
Why do I have to toe the party line to be a full time horse vet? Because I am not the boss! Also most owners I deal with aren't aware of the health benefits of barefoot, aren't brave enough to ask their farrier for something different, don't believe that horses work better barefoot, have friends who tell them it doesn't work, don't have the time/confidence etc to research barefoot, and don't beleive that they could do the biggest part of it all by themselves. Or maybe some are too damn lazy. You will have heard all that before, no doubt! Just have to trust that the ones that want help will hear about me somehow. Work in Scottish borders by the way!
You'll never really influence people by trying to convince, proselytise or convert them - the only way is for people to see it works with their own eyes and come to the conclusions themselves. They either go barefoot becuase they have looked at the evidence and are convinced, or there is no other solution left for their horse!
Hoofvet if you practised anywhere near me you'd have my business immediately! It is great to hear from a Vet who actually knows that horses can work barefoot.
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