what one finds one has learnt after years of reading/observing...
today i was helping someone with pole work and jumping, and noticed stuff about seat/hands that i would never have noticed a few years ago!
Molly? i took the Max pressure halter out with me and a longer lead rope than usual, put it on and pulled... she came. but she is not right. we are thinking navicular syndrome or something of that nature, which should be managable (Queenie had the same)
and in terms of this becoming apparent after living on a hill when she didn't used to live on a hill.. this makes some sense, for regular readers, of the "standing at the top of the hill planted" refusing to go down to the 20 acre...
and this may account for some schooling issues as well.
in the meantime, i dug out the fly sheet i had bought for queenie years ago. i must have shrunk it in the wash, as it fit molly a treat. the other mares didn't recognise her! they all had to do sniff polite checking that itwas in fact a mare they knew!
today i was helping someone with pole work and jumping, and noticed stuff about seat/hands that i would never have noticed a few years ago!
Molly? i took the Max pressure halter out with me and a longer lead rope than usual, put it on and pulled... she came. but she is not right. we are thinking navicular syndrome or something of that nature, which should be managable (Queenie had the same)
and in terms of this becoming apparent after living on a hill when she didn't used to live on a hill.. this makes some sense, for regular readers, of the "standing at the top of the hill planted" refusing to go down to the 20 acre...
and this may account for some schooling issues as well.
in the meantime, i dug out the fly sheet i had bought for queenie years ago. i must have shrunk it in the wash, as it fit molly a treat. the other mares didn't recognise her! they all had to do sniff polite checking that itwas in fact a mare they knew!
4 comments:
Glad you found the flysheet. I hope it will help Molly. Funny that the other mares didn't recognize her. That must have been cute.
Indeed, if Molly is having foot issues, it would affect your training. Might be worth having a vet look at her feet for you.
Mentioned a while ago. Sometimes, when you suspect a lameness may be causing problems, if you give your horse a dose or two of bute before you work her, and she then goes better, you have a clue that pain has been interfering with performance.
that's true, jean... i recall that you did.
she's being seen tomorrow...
Ah, the old fly sheet disguise! How funny!
Do you think you might move her to a flat area? I was thinking that navicular usually affects shod horses not barefoot but there are always exceptions.
Good luck with the lameness investigation, I hope you get an answer, but that it's nothing too serious.
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