Dizz as was; Dizz as is....

MrsMozart

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Two summers ago, when she was being backed,
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A year last December, the day she arrived,

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Last May, after a week away at Rossdales for investigation into lameness (bony irregularities on her pelvis, and secondary damage to both rear suspensory ligaments),

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Last May/June,

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Last September (just before fall),

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Last November (first time back on after fall),

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A week ago,

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Today,

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It's funny how the pictures today don't show her looking as well covered as she does in 'real life' :rolleyes:. She always loses in the early part of the year, she is now however putting on weight nice and steadily, so I am pleased :D. Also, slowly (slowly!) starting to muscle up! :D. Will be interesting to see if people think she has changed much.... :o :rolleyes:;):D:D
 
That's a lovely pic history as you can see the improvement. All that effort has been well worth it. I think today she looks great, like she's grown into herself. She's such a pretty mare. Can see why you're smitten!
 
Im sorry I will be totally truthful, I think she actually looked her best in last years May/June pictures, she looks very light of weight, almost as if something is not quite right at the moment (the pictures all look as though her 4 legs are always tucked under her). Although you do say she looks better in rl.

I know you are always a lovely poster, and really dont wish to offend you in any way shape or form but, sometimes seeing them everyday we miss stuff. I have a huge KWPN and know how hard it is to keep weight and condition on on a youngster, but she looks worse now than your November picture, when with good grass she should look a lot better.

She looks all legs and no body at all which as a KWPN she should have a huge depth of girth but it is not there. If she was mine she would be turned away totally to fill out and have something to work with.
 
I think she's looking much improved! I'd like to volunteer some of the Spooky Pony's extra pounds to help her continued weight gain. :D
 
Have to confess I'd be tempted to turn her away on good grass too, she is persistantly not muscling up or putting condition on, which can be appreciated with the vet investigation but whilst not too thin to be working, I'd be concerned as to why she's not putting on condition :S
But I may have missed something of course.
 
Thank you all :D Dashing so not have much time this morning, will thank properly later :)

Scally - I appreciate your comments :). No offence taken at all, it's good to get constructive criticsm (or would be if I could spell it lol!). She has just turned six, has grown about two inches in the year I've had her. We know her full sister and half brother and expect that she will have matured physically over this year :). The pics from last June are after being effectively turned away for six weeks whilst my arm healed (slip on the road); she actually had a bit too much weight on her then for comfort given the potential issues of her pelvis.
It's the thing of pictures isn't it! :D. Her girth is quite huge in reality, she's 'half a rib too long in the back', but vet, physio, and saddler all are happy with her 'lung room' as they call it and how she is developing :). The weight is an issue at this time of year, the June last year pic is from late in the month, quite possibly the start of July, she seems to need the slightly later grass to gain anything from it. This is the second year I've had her through winter/spring and both times she has been the same (see last year's May pics, slightly exacberated by the vet investigation). Last Spring she was on Blue Chip Pro, Alpha A Oil, Outshine, soaked oats, and sugarbeet, and it all made not a blind dot of difference :(. It's hard to get her to eat more than once a day and the feeds have to be small as she loses interest, she will only eat more if she is worked. This year I started earlier trying to find something that would put on weight slowly (so as not to stress her skeletal growth): she's now on Saracens Releave and Equijewel, which are doing the job. The trio of the support people are happy with the results so far :). As to the turning away, she's had most of the last year and a half effectively turned away with one thing and another. I am definately noticing a difference from riding her last year to being back in proper work this year, she's gone from a spinning idiot that would do as she was told most of the time, to an argumentative batt who occasionally makes me wish I wasn't on top (and wondering if I'm likely to stay there lol). I think that if she was of a different character then yes, turn away for a month or two, but given how she is, I think that if I did then life would not be any fun afterwards and we would have missed a large part of her education. The other thing to turning her away is that she becomes a devil to handle. I'm not and never have been afraid of her on the ground, but by gum she will push the boundaries! Give her an inch and she'll take your head off :(. I've cut her work down to five days a week, and most of those are for thirty to fifty minutes, with one long slow hack a week. When she will take it she gets fed twice a day.

Right, enough of my woffle :) Thank you again for your thoughts. I will bear them in mind, and I will talk to vet, physio and saddler and get their views as well :)
 
ST - to late to edit the other one, and doing up boots as I type lol. Her front end is muscling, but she doesn't use her bum if she can possibly help it, until she is totally relaxed and then she works quite nicely. Last year I was not allowed to school her in any way, or canter her in a school (couldn't canter at all for the first six months!). Since then, with accidents and illnesses and weather, the work front has been sporadic to say the least :o :(. Now that we have got the bit and noseband sorted, she is much more comfortable, but it will take a wee while for her to get into working properly and using her backend :). I've spoken to her previous owner, who also had her full sister and still has her half brother, and she says that is what they were like too, we are working along the same path so she should come together by the end of this year/Spring next year :). Again, it's the thing of pictures! She's certainly not too thin to be working :), if she were then I wouldn't be doing it, and my trio of support would not let me even if for some bizarre reason I wanted to.
 
Blast, left it too long to edit the other one!

ST - continued lol: Again though, thankyou for your words, I will bear them in mind and will be talking to vet, physio, saddler and previous owner (she's had and knows a number of this breeding :)).
 
MrsM, Dizz looks good in those pics:), like you say photos are decieving.

I've had the pleasure to meet the dizzy one in real life and she is absolutely stunning in the flesh, MrsM you keep up the hard work you do with her and am hoping you do the same with the other 2:D
 
she looks good hun. especially considering all the pair of you have been through recently. and I think she is a very lucky neddy.
oh and the schooling looks so much better in her new HM bit!! :D
 
Take heart Mrs M! OH owns a large warmblood, purchased as a 4yr old at around 17.1 he is now taller than the 18.2 measuring stick. He is not your typical warmblood build, he is more the lean type. He has been worked, fed and rested according to his growth rate, and OH has been slated in some circles for not getting him out competing earlier, (you just cant win sometimes;)) but he wasnt ready physically, he would have broken by now. He is now rising 8, and has hopefully now stopped going upwards, but is not the sort of type to have a huge back end and bulging muscles, although he is filling out nicely. Dizz reminds me of him, I think you are doing a sterling job with the care and attention that Dizz gets, some horses mature sooner than others, just like gangly teenagers, she is certainly going in the right direction:)
 
Interesting photos. She does look to be evening up at the backend. I hadn't realised before just how uneven she was at the beginning of your saga. I thought that it was interesting to see that she doesn't seem to have been comfortable in her mouth in any of the pics and she was certainly overbent in the 'just backed' photos, with quite loose reins. I do hope your new bit is the one for her and makes a real difference to her way of going, when she (and her muscles) get used to it. Did you find any-one near you to do acupuncture? It has certainly made a difference to my mare. I can now start bringing her back into work slowly.
 
More thank yous :). The Forum is too slow to try and respond to each individually :( But hot choccies to all!

PaS - her backend was atrocious :(. It was the pelvis issue. Has taken ages to get her body working better in itself, just lots of slow and steady hacking. I asked around, but couldn't find a practitioner.
 
She's such a pretty mare!! Very shiny too :D

Poor horse though- look at the awful headcarriage she's being forced into in the picture of the first ride after the fall though -she almost looks like she's having to scratch against her leg ;):D:D
 
And more thankies :D

SP - I meant to say, I've offered her some of my own spare blubber, but she said no thank you and just ate another Polo lol :D

QB87 - I really must stop tying her head to her legs! Then again, it's getting long and low... :D :D :D
 
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