What should I do?

madhector

madhector

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Have had my leg squished thanks to Hector, I am getting a little concerned about what to do with Jerry. He has had 2 days off now and really needs working as getting a little full of himself, even though he is out all night, not really supposed to ride for 2 weeks, but am proberly going to school the ponies at work on thursday as can ride without stirrups and stay in the school, so should be fine

But am not sure what to do about Jerry, I dont want to leave him for 2 weeks as we were really getting somewhere and he needs to keep working, also he will be a complete handful for me after 2 weeks off, and my leg will proberly be a little sore still so not a good combination.

I have a couple of options I suppose, I could just grin and bare it and ride him tomorrow before he gets any worse, or take him to a school on friday and ride him there, although he will be quite full of himself by then, or I can get someone else to ride him, (not sure about this as only one other person has ever ridden him and wasnt very sucessfully, dont want him to get confused or learn bad habits) or I could leave him for 2 weeks and then try, which i think might end up with me on the floor
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Your thoughts please, plus any other ideas appreciated

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Oh dear what happened to the leg?
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You could try and crack the lunging- two lunge lines on, strong use of voice, he might eventually setlle down and behave after two weeks!! Or he might be a bugger
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but its an idea anyway!
 
Think I would feel safer on top! lol

We are hopefully getting a surface of some sort put down in a few weeks so was going to leave the lunging till then, so he would be a little more confined, although when we last tried he was quite well behaved, but took a lot of control from my side, not sure I'd manage at the moment

Hector spooked and kicked my leg yesterday, I thought it was broken, but fortuently just very badly bruised, so been told to rest it for 2 weeks, I can't put much wieght on it at the moment tbh
 
OMG ! Sounds rather nasty, thank goodness it was not broken though.
Do not know what to suggest re Jerry...Erm I think if it was me I would try and ride him every day as normal, and grin and bear it, and risk it even though that would be a really silly thing to do,and against all good advice and common sense ! Perhaps just limit yourself to 25 mins a day as that is something and is better than nothing...
 
Sorry to hear about your leg! I know exactly how you feel as went through kind of the same thing with my young horse about awhile ago. She was starting to go really well and then got an infection in her mammary gland, she was totallly fine in herself and it wasn't affecting her workwise but she had to go on antibiotics and the vet said to take it easy while she was on them. So I decided to give her a couple of weeks off even though she'd only been in work about 6 weeks and I didn't really want to stop while we were doing so well. Anyway when I took her back in I was expecting fireworks and totally back to square one but she came back much better with the rest, she was much sweeter and willing and hadn't forgotton anything! In fact it probably did her good to chill out for a bit. It might be worth giving him 2 weeks off and then bring him back into serious work for the summer. I don't think I'd risk your leg, depends how bad it is but if you ride before you're ready you might make it worse and be out for the whole summer!
 
I vot strap your leg up make sure you have a friend with you and just ride him for a short period of time each day.


But that is just me. If he was the type to cope I would leabe him be but it sounds like he isn't.
 
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