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[Dino] Poor baby horse
Feb. 25th, 2013 09:54 pmSo, the mud fever got a lot worse over the past week and we ended up calling the vet out. Poor boy, he was so sore he couldn't *bear* anyone touching his legs so I couldn't get cream on and it all got a lot worse. Goncalo came out on Thursday and advised that we put a warm poultice on the legs for a few days to soak the scabs off and the sedate him and clip off all his lovely feathers! So that's what happened today.
Here he is with his new legs:
Once the hair came off it was found he has some mud fever on all four legs - we had thought it was just the back two :cry:.
Fronts:
Backs - left side
Backs - right side
Poor baby. Hopefully it'll heal pretty quickly now we've uncovered it and he can get back out in the field soon! I've been riding a bit more this week - with lunging first so he can let off steam - which is good. M watched me today which was helpful. He's been pretty silly about contact still and it's going to take a while to get back to where we were but we've agreed a plan of action so hopefully things will turn a corner soon.
Without much else to do Pico has been teaching Dino to neigh properly. There was quite a conversation going on whilst I lunged Dino within eyesight of a boxed Pico yesterday. Dino usually neighs like a cross between a teeny tiny pony and goat. It's quite funny but not what you expect from 560kg (560kg! That means he's lost about 30kg since he arrived! Thank goodness!) horse. He was practising neighing like a grown up horse following Pico's lead and it was all going quite well until he started to neigh and interrupted himself by snorting. He's such a doofus. He's cute though!
Here he is with his new legs:
Once the hair came off it was found he has some mud fever on all four legs - we had thought it was just the back two :cry:.
Fronts:
Backs - left side
Backs - right side
Poor baby. Hopefully it'll heal pretty quickly now we've uncovered it and he can get back out in the field soon! I've been riding a bit more this week - with lunging first so he can let off steam - which is good. M watched me today which was helpful. He's been pretty silly about contact still and it's going to take a while to get back to where we were but we've agreed a plan of action so hopefully things will turn a corner soon.
Without much else to do Pico has been teaching Dino to neigh properly. There was quite a conversation going on whilst I lunged Dino within eyesight of a boxed Pico yesterday. Dino usually neighs like a cross between a teeny tiny pony and goat. It's quite funny but not what you expect from 560kg (560kg! That means he's lost about 30kg since he arrived! Thank goodness!) horse. He was practising neighing like a grown up horse following Pico's lead and it was all going quite well until he started to neigh and interrupted himself by snorting. He's such a doofus. He's cute though!
