Something weird going on, either magnesium is suddenly being talked about a lot in the horsey press, or on various forums, or there are suddenly an awful lot of loopy and/or laminitic horses at the moment (due to mild Spring like weather after the snow?). Suddenly there is an awfully high demand for magnesium, I have sent out unprecedented amounts in the last couple of weeks. Not complaining but slightly worrying as there has been quite a bit of laminitis this winter and I am definitely getting lots of emails from all around the country. Not your 'typical' laminitic pony either, these are 16hh plus horses.
I think the weather has had an awful lot to do with it, I am seeing a flush of grass after a period where due to the awful weather people weren't able to exercise their horses as much, or the horse was on restricted turn out.
We were lucky in that we were able to continue to turn out and our school and sand track was usable even in the snow, however even when turned out the horses were not moving around as much as they normally do. I have to confess as well it was as much that me and the OH could do to get the taps defrosted and everyone fed and watered, exercising the horses was the last thing on our minds.
It looks like many people are still dealing with the fall out and possibly down South more snow to come. My mother delights in telling me that the year I was born it snowed in April which she reckons was a warning sign of things to come.
No work for the horses during the week again, OH reports they are all well and ok. He has the offer of the first ride on an unridden for six months, newly barefoot, with no prior knowledge of how he goes under saddle, PRE. He has announced that in order to do this he will need to sit on one of mine first, as Charlie Too is the only one in regular ridden work at present it looks like he, and the OH, will be getting a bit of a shock at the weekend.
I dream of the day when I am light enough to ride a 13.2 .....
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