Post by ladyndibs on Dec 7, 2011 16:16:10 GMT 1
I am not a confident owner and as you may have seen I've had major issues with Lady so the farrier coming out is often a bit stressful at the best of times so I was pretty much dreading how Lady would be and even if she would let John touch her, got there early to get head collars sorted etc to see Dibbles limping, well the best day I suppose as I wouldn't have to wait for the farrier to check his feet and if it's not feet maybe the vet for a check over. few minutes later no sign of lameness!!
Brought Silky down first, (she's Miss January in the calendar with her previous owner ) very good apart from a little spook and a couple of hops, took Silky back up to her field and brought Dibbles down, Silky could still see him but went loopy, for a mature lady she can get a wriggle on, while she is going potty the farrier finds the start of an abcess, by now my stomach is going through the floor, didn't have chance to panic about his foot as the next second Silky is at the slip rails still going nuts then got up on her back legs and launched her chest through the rail, she's only little and the rail is 5", no problem it broke immediately. The last horse I saw do that was a stallion and he nearly killed himself, so I could hardly believe it when little Silky didn't stop but came haring down to the bottom with not a mark on her, and once she'd bragged about how clever she was to all and sundry and had Lady tell her off she found a nice bit of grass and became a respectable older lady again. John got Dibbles' foot dressed so all I had to do now was convince nearly 600kg of horse that the farrier isn't the horse eating variety. Yet another miracle, Lady was a complete star, so thanks Lizp for all the help you're giving me Lady is already benefitting and so am I.
All I've got to do is work out how to redress Dibbles' foot, simples!