Betrisher
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- Jun 3, 2013
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- Dominic: Galah(RIP: 1981-2018); The Lovies: Four Blue Masked Lovebirds; Barney and Madge (The Beaks): Alexandrines; Miss Rosetta Stone: Little Corella
Ooooo Tab! I so love your approach with horses! I wish we lived closer together: I could visit you and we could talk horses for ages on end!
I am amazed that you worked out your training methods with Kitai as cleverly as you did. Most people would have had him in a martingale and gag in a heartbeat, but you've used your head and clearly found the way that works for him. THAT's the way you do it! Kitai will grow to trust you completely because of this and will continue to give you his all.
(Psst! I have a particularly soft spot for Kitai because he's a baby, because he's a thoroughbred and because he's had such a rough trot with his feet etc. Please give him an extra kiss from Aunty Trisha, won't you?)
My sister's QH's are continuing to give her grief. Chippy's nail puncture healed up and then abscessed in the toe of the same foot! He's been out of work now for nine weeks. The foal, Reuben, kicked the wall of his stable and was 'lucky' to find the weak, rusted spot in the corrugated iron wall. He sliced a slice off the inside of his hindleg and split the flesh to the bone. Miraculously, he managed not to slice into the tendon sheath, so it's only a flesh wound and not something more serious. Still, his leg is swollen to twice it's proper width and is still draining lymph and we don't know why.
In addition, dear little Reuben's testes hadn't yet descended, so Francie hasn't been able to have him gelded. He's turning into a stallion before our very eyes and is rearing and boxing and biting and basically being a pain in the quince. It's funny while he's still small (12hh), but won't be all that funny if he keeps growing like a weed. Just last week, he struck my sister with his foreleg and effectively lamed her for a week! LOL!
As 'luck' would have it, the testes descended the day after the leg injury, but of course, he's too compromised to be having surgery while the leg's still draining. Sigh. It seems to me QHs bring bad luck. I've never had a thoroughbred with so many accidents and injuries!
The other thing is that we've had pretty constant rain all winter and so the paddock is muddy and swampy and the horses' hooves are beginning to suffer. My dear sister, bless 'er little 'eart, purchased nine metric tonnes of packing sand and shovelled it with her own dear little handies (along with those of her husband, daughters and two nieces) into the paddock and riding yard. Now, the guys have good firm footing and a place to go when the water rises from the creek.
Another clever thing she's done is to make a round yard out of old pallets. All you do is bolt them together and they make a perfect fence about four foot high. You can drive star posts in to make the fence permanent, or you can move it around like meccano if you have enough people to help. Francie strung an electric tape along the top and it's keeping the foal in and even Chippy when he's feeling fine. Might be an idea for Klaatu?
My Roxie is sleeping on my feet and farting approximately every five minutes. I must go and open the window... :22_yikes:
I am amazed that you worked out your training methods with Kitai as cleverly as you did. Most people would have had him in a martingale and gag in a heartbeat, but you've used your head and clearly found the way that works for him. THAT's the way you do it! Kitai will grow to trust you completely because of this and will continue to give you his all.
(Psst! I have a particularly soft spot for Kitai because he's a baby, because he's a thoroughbred and because he's had such a rough trot with his feet etc. Please give him an extra kiss from Aunty Trisha, won't you?)
My sister's QH's are continuing to give her grief. Chippy's nail puncture healed up and then abscessed in the toe of the same foot! He's been out of work now for nine weeks. The foal, Reuben, kicked the wall of his stable and was 'lucky' to find the weak, rusted spot in the corrugated iron wall. He sliced a slice off the inside of his hindleg and split the flesh to the bone. Miraculously, he managed not to slice into the tendon sheath, so it's only a flesh wound and not something more serious. Still, his leg is swollen to twice it's proper width and is still draining lymph and we don't know why.
In addition, dear little Reuben's testes hadn't yet descended, so Francie hasn't been able to have him gelded. He's turning into a stallion before our very eyes and is rearing and boxing and biting and basically being a pain in the quince. It's funny while he's still small (12hh), but won't be all that funny if he keeps growing like a weed. Just last week, he struck my sister with his foreleg and effectively lamed her for a week! LOL!
As 'luck' would have it, the testes descended the day after the leg injury, but of course, he's too compromised to be having surgery while the leg's still draining. Sigh. It seems to me QHs bring bad luck. I've never had a thoroughbred with so many accidents and injuries!
The other thing is that we've had pretty constant rain all winter and so the paddock is muddy and swampy and the horses' hooves are beginning to suffer. My dear sister, bless 'er little 'eart, purchased nine metric tonnes of packing sand and shovelled it with her own dear little handies (along with those of her husband, daughters and two nieces) into the paddock and riding yard. Now, the guys have good firm footing and a place to go when the water rises from the creek.
Another clever thing she's done is to make a round yard out of old pallets. All you do is bolt them together and they make a perfect fence about four foot high. You can drive star posts in to make the fence permanent, or you can move it around like meccano if you have enough people to help. Francie strung an electric tape along the top and it's keeping the foal in and even Chippy when he's feeling fine. Might be an idea for Klaatu?
My Roxie is sleeping on my feet and farting approximately every five minutes. I must go and open the window... :22_yikes:
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