Auslander
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It's not that I can't, but more that my unruly beast likes to wait til I'm at full stretch before either putting his head down to eat, or taking a step backwards. I havent landed on my face yet, but it's been close!
Old fashioned horsey tips/tricks
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Auslander
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He is a complete delinquent, and getting more so the older he gets, and the less he works!Littlebig bu88er!
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Irish-Only
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I use warm water in the syringe which helps to dissolve it.
Birker2020
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Oh excuse me for my contribution, I was actually referring to the egg part, I haven't a clue if tugging on an ear works, but the wip wop would appear to be a safer method having seen demos on line years ago with Richard Maxwell
dorsetladette
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Egg in a feed for condition.
Lead and opium poured carefully around the frog to cure thrush. Only my dad was allowed to do it as it created a smoky gas which was 'bad for your lunges' apparently - oddly kept in a glass corona fizzy drink bottle and looked exactly like the blue fizzy drink (bubblegum??)
Thatching a cold/wet horse - i still do this if I have to rug a wet pony or a cold/poorly pony.
Hot clothing - again I still do this rather than bathing on a cold day before a show.
Strapping - we did alot of this in winter if ponies were stabled for any length of time (we often got snowed or iced in and to dangerous to walk ponies out across the yard)
Standing ponies on concrete floors. Again stabled ponies would have their beds lifted in a morning so they stood on hard cold concrete floors. This apparently draws the heat out of feet and legs. It was also common place to do this with laminitic ponies. The cold was thought to help with the heat in the feet and the solid ground helped support the sole. (total opposite of todays thought process)
Lead and opium poured carefully around the frog to cure thrush. Only my dad was allowed to do it as it created a smoky gas which was 'bad for your lunges' apparently - oddly kept in a glass corona fizzy drink bottle and looked exactly like the blue fizzy drink (bubblegum??)
Thatching a cold/wet horse - i still do this if I have to rug a wet pony or a cold/poorly pony.
Hot clothing - again I still do this rather than bathing on a cold day before a show.
Strapping - we did alot of this in winter if ponies were stabled for any length of time (we often got snowed or iced in and to dangerous to walk ponies out across the yard)
Standing ponies on concrete floors. Again stabled ponies would have their beds lifted in a morning so they stood on hard cold concrete floors. This apparently draws the heat out of feet and legs. It was also common place to do this with laminitic ponies. The cold was thought to help with the heat in the feet and the solid ground helped support the sole. (total opposite of todays thought process)
poiuytrewq
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No, I was thinking that reading through the comments. It’s not something I’ve ever done to my own horses but at one work yard all riders were told to pull front legs out. The physio was there one morning and was horrified and explained that that was quite a big stretch to be doing on cold muscles.
She said the risk of pulling a muscle far outweighed the risk of pinching a bit of skin.