Making The Most Of The Dry Bits

Weather was very hit and miss again although C managed to ride Charlie twice in the dry bits.  Rosey's owner is back from University which means that C gets to become her personal groom again.  Rosey is back in her normal hanging cheek Dr Bristol (I have no idea why, it came with her and that is what she is ridden in all the time).  I gave L a lesson on Rosey using Jamies bridle with the pee wee bit, I think she could tell that life was a bit easier using it and she got some nice work.  Not sure she will buy one apparently bank of mum said no.

The ponies are pulse free on their new diet and are moving a lot better, the droppings are still very weird so we are trying to introduce a bit more fibre to see if we can give them more substance.

Tommy has been making good progress over the last couple of months, he came to us with a steep foot and where we were having problems with his last blip the foot became so steep he was very over at the knee.  This meant the tendon shortened.  In this case it was very important to take the foot back a little bit at a time to give his body a chance to adjust to the changes.  He is now not so over at the knee, part of the problem is that this leg is actually longer than the other at the minute but it is getting there.  N and C came bursting in to the shed where I was packing things up to tell me he was cantering around the field, course when I got outside to look he was happily grazing again.  It is nice to see him trotting and cantering around, a few months ago I would have said that wasn't possible.  It is also nice to see him out in the paddock seeing as he spent most of his life shut up in a stable.  We are controlling his grass by putting a filter in his muzzle to reduce the size of the hole a bit.  He is a good boy with his muzzle and doesn't often get it off unlike the other two monsters.

Not sure why but the horses were all in a very lovey dovey mood, we spent Sunday morning weeding the field and had chaff sacks with us to put the docks in, they took great delight in following us around and looking very disappointed when there was no feed in the sacks.  Max has discovered that I can scratch a particularly favourite spot of his on his neck, he spent most of the time I was in the field throwing himself in front of me with his neck bent so I would scratch it, it still takes a few moments to work out whether he is ok in the field to be handled or not, he has been fine with me for ages now but a few weeks ago C walked up to him to say hello and he squealed and stamped his foot.  It all depends on what mood he is in really.

Still not adjusted his saddle for him so we can ride again, I spend so long doing work for other people the little jobs for myself get pushed to one side.  Really must get this done as it is the longest day shortly and it feels like the summer has passed us by .......