x_Fiona_x
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I need someone to moan to, and the house is empty.....
So its 4 weeks into the summer holidays up here and I had big plans for myself and poppy. We were going to go on our first hack together, work on our dressage and generally just have fun.
First week of the holidays poppy became lame. Vet thinks its laminitis, 3 weeks off grass and she had only improved a little, so we put her out onto the grass at the start of this week and she has improved quite a bit, but is still too lame to ride. I have no idea how being on grass is helping her, unless its because its softer on her feet?? Her hoof wall is growing in closer to the pedal bone (the opposite of laminitis) according to the farrier, dont know if its painful or not?
She is the kind of horse that needs to be ridden or lunged every day, if not she becomes very destructive. So, having not been ridden or lunged in a month, she is biting the fences, kicking the fences and kicking her stable. Lunged her (just walking) last night and the field was so wet that even just walking was digging it up, but she was keen to do it and was bursting into trot (against my will!). This also confuses me, she is so keen to move surely if she was in pain when moving she wouldnt want to move at all.
On top of all this, the forecast last week said there would only be a couple of showers in the week and sun the rest, so I cut my hay and since then it has rained every day. So I will have to buy in hay. GGGGrrrrrrrr.... not been good holidays so far.
Sorry for the long, grumbling post. Cup of hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows to anyone who read this far!!
So its 4 weeks into the summer holidays up here and I had big plans for myself and poppy. We were going to go on our first hack together, work on our dressage and generally just have fun.
First week of the holidays poppy became lame. Vet thinks its laminitis, 3 weeks off grass and she had only improved a little, so we put her out onto the grass at the start of this week and she has improved quite a bit, but is still too lame to ride. I have no idea how being on grass is helping her, unless its because its softer on her feet?? Her hoof wall is growing in closer to the pedal bone (the opposite of laminitis) according to the farrier, dont know if its painful or not?
She is the kind of horse that needs to be ridden or lunged every day, if not she becomes very destructive. So, having not been ridden or lunged in a month, she is biting the fences, kicking the fences and kicking her stable. Lunged her (just walking) last night and the field was so wet that even just walking was digging it up, but she was keen to do it and was bursting into trot (against my will!). This also confuses me, she is so keen to move surely if she was in pain when moving she wouldnt want to move at all.
On top of all this, the forecast last week said there would only be a couple of showers in the week and sun the rest, so I cut my hay and since then it has rained every day. So I will have to buy in hay. GGGGrrrrrrrr.... not been good holidays so far.
Sorry for the long, grumbling post. Cup of hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows to anyone who read this far!!