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Jul 21, 2013 21:31:03 GMT -5
Post by ghostrider on Jul 21, 2013 21:31:03 GMT -5
I have 12 tons. I said today "I have enough for 4 horses!" My niece said "Oh boy let's get another horse!!!" Then mom (who was listening) told me to explain what other expenses horses cost.
Don't ya love lofts? I swear I thought about putting mine up there. We have 1/2 on one side and 1/2 on the other side with the middle totally open to the roof. But then I was thinking that it'd be a lot of work for me to put them up there and then take them down by myself. There isn't steps on ours, you have to use a ladder.
That sucks that it rained again. It rained good here yesterday and supposed to rain today and tomorrow but so far no more. Everything is drying up or was so it's well needed. Two of our counties are back in the drought.
I can trot and canter bareback but my thigh muscles ache after about 15 min. I'm just never gonna be 20 again. Good luck with the practice.
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Aug 2, 2013 8:36:06 GMT -5
Post by wjminwi on Aug 2, 2013 8:36:06 GMT -5
Not much riding happening, even though the weather has been gorgeous! We had our new barefoot trimmer out...turns out my old farrier had really been doing just a pasture trim, not a true barefoot trim. She is sure she can get Scout's hooves to the point where she isn't tiptoeing over every little blip in the pavement or refusing to walk on rocks, so that is exciting! The downside...a few days later both girls developed abscesses, which she says is very normal for the first trim or two, but then it stops (I hope she's right!). It is also normal for horses to get them during times with bad biting flies (like we are having now) because they are stomping so much. Scout only limped around for about 36 hours, then hers blew. I could see it over the 'bulb' on the back of her hoof...it ballooned and then popped. We can't see where Tango's is, and she is still limping. This morning she seemed to be walking a bit better though. On the positive side, since we can't ride, I'm having more time to help DH with our remodeling...we are almost done with our bathroom addition project. Yay!
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Aug 4, 2013 2:06:44 GMT -5
Post by ghostrider on Aug 4, 2013 2:06:44 GMT -5
That's weird, I don't recall reading that in Ramey or Jackson's books on barefoot trims. Did the trimmer say why they'd both get abscesses? Hope they're not in too much pain. They say the mustang trim and barefooting is the natural way but I don't believe it can be. The horse wasn't born to haul around man. IMO Putting shoes on a horse doesn't ruin a horses foot and you can pull them anytime and he's barefoot again. We've been shoeing horses sucessfully since putting armor on him and us. LOL On the other hand how many years does it take for them to tote us around barefoot without pain? sometimes they can never do it but we still try. I notice that when I have to go out and put on boots, a lot of times I just skip riding because it's too much trouble. They two girls going with me are barefooters, they're taking their horses boots, hoping they don't have trouble. I noticed boots tend to stretch and rub when wet and we'll be going through lots of water.
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Aug 4, 2013 17:25:34 GMT -5
Post by cyndi on Aug 4, 2013 17:25:34 GMT -5
I'd never heard that about abscessing from flies either.
I've heard that abscesses are really common when a horse founders, yet Fanny has never had an abscess. However, I don't know that she actually foundered or just had laminitis. Some say you can't have one without the other :/
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Aug 4, 2013 20:19:31 GMT -5
Post by wjminwi on Aug 4, 2013 20:19:31 GMT -5
You can definitely have abscesses WITHOUT laminitis. Scout had one a few years ago too. Sometimes they come from stone bruises, etc. Just a fluid buildup/infection in the hoof that moves through and pops out the top or bottom.
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Aug 4, 2013 20:51:18 GMT -5
Post by cyndi on Aug 4, 2013 20:51:18 GMT -5
Oh, yes, I agree! Guess I should have specified that I was just speaking about Fanny - that she's never had an abscess despite having laminitis...knock on wood! lol When I said "you can't have one without the other" I meant that some people say that about founder and laminitis I've only ever seen two horses with abscesses. One was a foundered horse and one was a mare at our present barn that got one for no apparent reason. We had a barefoot trimmer once who was "happy" to see abscesses, simply because it meant that the horse was ridding it's body of some form of infection or injury.
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Aug 5, 2013 10:52:56 GMT -5
Post by appytrails on Aug 5, 2013 10:52:56 GMT -5
My horses have been barefoot for 7 yrs now and until this year never had an abscess. Royal got one a couple of months ago which my trimmer thought probably came from something getting in the wall separation that developed when I moved barns. Malone still hasn't had one (keep fingers crossed.) I too never heard of an abscess developing from stomping at flies. If that's normal, my guys should have been having them all the time.
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Aug 6, 2013 10:36:24 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2013 10:36:24 GMT -5
Wendi....I lost my barefoot trimmer last year, but did barefoot for 7 or 8 years, and having an abscess is not normal in my experience. I never ever had my trimmer tell me that they would abscess, and when he started trimming for me I had 9 horses. I'd just keep an eye on things.
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Aug 13, 2013 22:48:21 GMT -5
Post by ghostrider on Aug 13, 2013 22:48:21 GMT -5
Frisco abcessed, largest one the farrier had ever seen. He conferred with the vet over the x-rays. They thought it was a false sole but turned out it wasn't. He would stand at an 8 foot metal trough and kick it all day and night because he was trying to eat the small pieces of hay that would end up under it. Switched to plastic light weight tubs and tied them to the panels.
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