Pony Girl asked what "cake" was...
Cake is usually associated with cows, but they do make horse cake. That is what this is. I prefer to use this when we are messing with the horses in the pasture. It is easy to throw it out and the horses can pick it up off of the ground easily and cleanly. It beats having to fend off a herd of horses all trying to stick their heads in the grain bucket at the same time. Instead of GiWaNe-Horse Follow Closely, it is
Go Away, Go Away-LOL. Megan uses it when she does stretching exercises too.
Here's a
lovely picture of Frosty's wound...
This is pre-clean and redress of course. Looks nasty!! Even though it is deep, he avoided injuring any tendons or the hoof wall. Lucky pony! I am running lots of cold water on it, cleaning it out with my fingers, putting some Lamphley's External Rub in it and topping that off with Lamphley's Wound Powder. Just a little cotton bandage and vet wrap to keep the debris out of it. He is on antibiotics but no bute or banamine. The fact that it hurts a little keeps him from walking on it and will speed the healing process. The biggest problem with foot wounds, as everyone knows, is proud flesh. I will be keeping a close eye on that.
And then there is Woofer...
She decided to start dripping milk tonight. Guess what that means...Can't be long now. Her and I have been having a running dialog about this foaling business. Every evening she tells me that she wants her grain, I tell her I will trade her...grain for a foal. I think it is working, that mare dearly loves her grain-LOL.
Megan's cat was being a spazz today...
I don't know what got into him, but he was really tearing the yard up. Crazy cat!
Thank God the DRAMA is over with Mikey and those Warmbloods. We are still without our Mikey fix, but hopefully she will take pity on us soon and start blogging again. It took some back reading on the Fugly thread, but it ended with the lady going ahead and sending the mares to the person Mikey picked them up for. Mikey was just caught in the middle when the (self-proclaimed) Fugly Mafia started calling and sending nasty emails to the lady that was selling the horses. I found it rather interesting that there were
a lot of "removed by author" comments on that post. Oh well, I think we all know the mentality of the majority of the "sheeple"(love that word Mrs Mom-I had to use it). Did some of them ever figure out the damage they did by making those nasty phone calls and emails? NOPE...They are just waiting to pick a new target. I still read there and even comment occasionally. Better to know thyne enemy...
Didn't get a single thing I
planned on done today. Megan and I were wore smooth out from the last two days of mowing, fixing fence and running here and there. I finally got my "garden" in though. I guess that is something. Tomorrow we will be hard at it again. If I can just figure out what to do and where to go.
To answer your other question Pony Girl. I stay running between three properties. Megan and I live "in town" on a 4 1/2 acre property. "Mom's" is 7 miles out of town and "The Ranch" is my other place, 23 miles out of town. Hence, the need for some sort of a plan to start the day. A person can put a lot of time and miles on driving in between those places and that don't leave much time for getting anything done, not to mention the fuel cost(OMG!!).
I think he is plumb happy in his new world!! Everything looks perfect-he has walked, drank, pooped and now he is pooped. Momma is doing good. She had a perfect delivery(although she gave me a little scare because only one foot was out at first) and cleaned good. The little(he isn't really sooo little) turd was exactly one month late.
Cake is usually associated with cows, but they do make horse cake. That is what this is. I prefer to use this when we are messing with the horses in the pasture. It is easy to throw it out and the horses can pick it up off of the ground easily and cleanly. It beats having to fend off a herd of horses all trying to stick their heads in the grain bucket at the same time. Instead of GiWaNe-Horse Follow Closely, it is Go Away, Go Away-LOL. Megan uses it when she does stretching exercises too.
This is pre-clean and redress of course. Looks nasty!! Even though it is deep, he avoided injuring any tendons or the hoof wall. Lucky pony! I am running lots of cold water on it, cleaning it out with my fingers, putting some Lamphley's External Rub in it and topping that off with Lamphley's Wound Powder. Just a little cotton bandage and vet wrap to keep the debris out of it. He is on antibiotics but no bute or banamine. The fact that it hurts a little keeps him from walking on it and will speed the healing process. The biggest problem with foot wounds, as everyone knows, is proud flesh. I will be keeping a close eye on that. 
She decided to start dripping milk tonight. Guess what that means...Can't be long now. Her and I have been having a running dialog about this foaling business. Every evening she tells me that she wants her grain, I tell her I will trade her...grain for a foal. I think it is working, that mare dearly loves her grain-LOL.
I don't know what got into him, but he was really tearing the yard up. Crazy cat!