wheatenfir
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Hi Folks this my first post. We have a performance bred Connemara mare whom when we bought her last year was 'nice and round'. Over the winter she lost the roundness, still kept herself covered with a layer of fat but empty around the kidneys as I would call it. After a blood test, in Spring, she turned out to be slightly low in iron and had decreased white cells.(or incresed, whatever generally shows a viral infection). She was put on a vitamin/mineral supplement, has been wormed, vaccinated. She was and has been in good form when ridden, competing at RC and ODE. She looks more like a 'fit' Thoroughbred with bone than a Connemara. She looks empty below the loins, with a good depth of girth. I have tried most things, and the the pony with her, an Exmoor type is too fat, but gets fed the same, or most times, even less. Some people say I am too worried, but they don't realise that she is only ridden once a week. They think she is ridden daily, or horsewalker!!!
