thrush improving

the near fore is starting to look a lot better; the off fore still not so good but no doubt will get there.

but molly's starting to be a bit of a B about the foot picking up thing - with her front feet, where previously she didn't want her backs picked up before she was started on no bute..- so i think she's fed up wtih teh process.

tough, i say!  i carry on!

but it's tough on my back as well, bend down, lift hoof, scrub etc etc... and all repeated several times!

we/ve pretty much given up any idea of doing anything much through the week - I know I COULD take it out of my working day, but i am expected to be here ... 

odd, when i was an employed person i used to think about going in to work late having done something with my horse...

now i am a self employed person, i am conscious of the need to be at my desk in case the phone rings/an email arrives...

odd that.  It wouldn't actually matter, no different than if i were out at a meeting, or in court, of whatever.. and it's very easy to make the time up, of course!.

USDF getting with the program

link in title..

now we need BD to do the same..

in the meantime, someone found Racinet on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bNpT5wajps

and Elen petushkova with Pepel .. not heard of them before, but well worth watching

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iukrYhnw8n0

an in season mare sharing with a gelding

is much more troublesome than one sharing with other mares...

went down mid morning, thinking, get her in, get her ready and go over to the arena..

not a good plan

firstly charlie went round the corner so molly coudlnt' see him, which didn't impress her, and even when he came back, she woudln't settle and wanted back out again.. then the wind started getting up such that things were blowing about .. it became not worth it!

then gaynor said she'd been very up a height and rude this morning, which she's not normally - i'd wondered why her breakfast hadn't been finished - and went off bucking and flying round the paddock...

so out she went again....a  mare in that mood just isn't worth the grief, as we'd both get wound up!


tcha.

 

tchah...

is what i think of today.

partner was meant to have riding lesson this morning.  had been texting RI to confirm and not heard back... just as we got in the car, received text, had i not received her text earlier in the week?  cancelled...strangles scare on her yard.  sometimes, texts don't get through.

so then partner wanted to do various things involving sorting out her stuff to go to dry cleaners, so did that, then friend rang and go for haylage please as there's so little grass left they need more ...

time we did that it started to rain...

what i SHOULD have done, once i knew partners lesson cancelled, was go do something with molly then.. but i didn't...because was wanted to stay at home and help with the sorting...

it was raining properly time i got lunch and got down there ... but warm! poo picking in the rain is fun (not) but found charlie's missing shoe... and the wind was picking up when i left ...

supposed to be not so bad tomorrow...


i reckon, we'll not get a lot done this winter!  have i said that before?

i finally remembered

to apply the mud fever prevention stuff... i think i hadn't done it as until yesterday the mud hadn't got deeper than the top of her feet! IV Horse mud fever prevention, excellent stuff, and then after applying i wipe my hands off down her neck and that prevents the mud sticking there as well...

we're hoping for good weather tomorrow to ride but i don't think i'm very optimistic about it..

windy ...

to replace the rain (but it's still raining over the pennines, so we still need to have some concerns on the flood situation and feel sorry for those in cumbria) 


I went down really early this morning, cos i'd got up early! and they were out whilst it was still dark ... mucked out and poo picked the field...apparently gaynor's dogs went a bit mad as i arrived, and she thought i was a bit mad being that early, but hey!


and my other thoguht about the wind .. it was so warm, it could have been the hot air blowing out of the FEI...


not at all convinced by that statement, and not at all sure what world horse welfare can do ....they rescue abused etc. horses and do a good job on that.. but deal with rollkur?  um.


http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/397/291879.html


and as for allowing bute in competition ...


http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/397/292010.html


words fail me...

but the FEI vice president is against that:



http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/397/291988.html


and quite right too!

we are on tenterhooks

because the river in this picture has burst its banks and when i left was up to the cattle grid...

a long way to go before we need panic and get the horses out, and the probabilities are that we won't have to .. but still, very scary!  The trees nearest the river are underwater..

it's all come down from the pennines; if it stops raining there and doesnt' rain here, we're fine.  if it carries on raining there, and then rains some more here, we might not be!

fingers crossed all.