Updates

It's been a hectic weekend again as usual. I use to get some down time when I worked my last job, now on my days off it is just go, go, go! Fritzy is doing well. She was averaging about 6 poo piles a day, and drinking a couple gallons of water. Other than that she was acting her normal self and wanting out of the round pen. On Saturday she had over 10 poo piles and had drank tons of water so my OH called me to see if she could go back into her regular pasture. She hadn't shown any other signs of being sick, no nasal discharge or cough. Her temp was staying in the normal range. Even if she did have a virus she would have already exposed Brandy to it. Since she was back to normal I told my OH that we could put her back into her pasture. She sure was happy to be back with Brandy and the goats.

On Sunday while I rode Brandy, my OH drained water troughs, scrubbed and re-filled them. He also cut up the trees that had fallen in the horses pasture. After I was done riding, I washed Brandy's tail. I would have loved to give her a bath, but we only have cold water access outside and it was not warm enough for a bath. Brandy's tail was dark brown, it was nasty. For some reason I don't have shampoo for white horses. I will put that on my "need" to buy list. By the time I finished with all that, I had to go help my OH clear the cut up trees out of the pasture. It was already 4:30 p.m. by the time we finished with the trees, and I was starving.
This morning the dogs had their annual vet appointment for check ups and vaccines. I use to take one dog at a time, but since my OH works nights I had scheduled an early appt. so we could take them in at the same time. What an experience that turned out to be! Handling one crazy Australian Shepherd is tough enough, but two? Goodness! I was in charge of Sadie, the socially anxious, insecure one and my OH was in charge of Bailey, the good one. How do I always get the challenging one? And of course the vet was packed! There were tons of little dogs in there. Sadie immediately started barking before we even got to the door. We go sit down on a bench and since Sadie is so anxious, she is literally laying under the bench with her head between my legs. Bailey just wanted to visit with everyone and anyone. After about 10 minutes, they put us in an exam room. Sadie wanted out so bad. You would think that we never take them anywhere! The assistant came in and took their temps and then we waited for the DR. He came in 10 minutes later and examined Bailey, then gave him his vaccines. Bailey was so good. When it was Sadie' s turn, I warned the DR that Sadie will growl, but she has never tried biting anyone. Sadie is really weird about being touched on her back and hind end. She has had a physical exam before to make sure she doesn't have any physical issues and everything came back fine, so not too sure why she does that. She has always been that way. When the DR was doing his physical exam Sadie was crying and acting like he was going to kill her. Then the DR went to reach for her neck so he could turn her around and she tried to bite him. I know Sadie is very protective and she even growls at me, but she has never tried to bite. So he had to go get a muzzle. I don't think she liked that, but I don't blame the DR one bit. I have looked in the pet store to buy a muzzle and haven't found one yet. I have been wanting to get one for her since she does have socially anxious, insecure issues. She is such a challenge, but he was able to get the shots in her. I was so glad when the vet appt. was over!

We had to rush home so we could get the horses out. The farrier was out today. Everyone did well, even Chance. She didn't have to have her hooves trimmed the last time. And my farrier barely took any off this time. He told me to keep an eye on her hoof growth. He said they should be growing faster then they are. She does pace, but he didn't think that she could possibly wear them down that quick. Anybody have any ideas? Is this normal? I know all horses hooves are different in how fast they grow. But since this is my first baby, I don't know if they are any different then an adult horse? My vet and I have a feeding program for her, she is on a 75% grass and 25% alfalfa diet and she gets a vitamin/mineral supplement. My vet isn't very big on feeding mare and foal grain, she says they have to be fed so much of that to get the recommended ration, I started Chance on that when I first brought her home, and you are supposed to feed 1 lb for every 100 lbs of body weight, not to exceed 8 lbs. I believe that was LMF Development. I feed LMF feeds because they are formulated for the area in which I live. So if anyone out there has any idea's on baby hoof growth (Mrs. Mom?), please share! Thanks!

I have no injuries to report, thank goodness!! It's been pretty uneventful at work.

I will be out of town again this week for another horse show. It is in another state, but just one state over, so it is only like a 6 hour drive. I think we are taking 9 horses this time, but that keeps changing so who knows how many will actually come. I only have a couple days to prepare all those horses to get ready to leave, and to prepare myself! I hate packing and I have had to do so much of that lately. Good thing I had my OH leave my luggage down from the attic!

Everyone please have a really, really wonderful week, and I'll talk to you all when I get back!