Some Updates

This last week has been so busy I really haven’t had a chance to sit down and update...I’ll try to give the highlights here (also, STILL can’t get all my pictures to upload on here wtf.)

I didn’t get much horse working in during the week...maybe one little ride on Johnny but he was totally lame so I didn’t do anything other than walk. On Friday Dee came out for the afternoon. We started our horse mania with Johnny, who seemed to be feeling better, but saddle fit issues and no babysitter for me, kept Dee from riding (still trying to sort that out) so we took tacked up Johnny out into the pasture and worked him up and down the hill in the field for a little. I took video of him (WHICH I CANT UPLOAD) and he actually looked pretty damn sound. The video turned out to be extra helpful because the more I watched it the more I realized that Johnny’s lameness, although manifesting in the right front, actually seems to be caused by the left hind. More on that in a minute.

After Johnny, I tacked up Cool and took him for a little walk/trot hack, for which he felt FABULOUS so I didn’t even attempted canter because I knew that it would ruin the little vibe that we had going. My little monster son rode him after him and that was adorable so yeah.

Emmy got a good grooming session and then everyone went back out in the field for the night.

Saturday one of my best friends Mo got married and that was fun. I left the horses out in the pasture with their delicious round bale while we went to the reception and everyone was fine when I left. On our way home from the reception we hit torrential storms and so the poor horses got rained on also. I brought them all in to dry stalls when we got home and noticed that John was pretty lame on the front right (he had not been when I left). A quick check of the foot and leg didn’t really yield anything so I tucked him in for the night, as it was quite late, and crossed my fingers that he’d just over done it and would feel better in the morning.

That turned out to not be the case though, and Sunday morning (my birthday no less!) he was toe-touching the right front on and off while eating breakfast. I checked him again and then stood him in ice from knee to hoof just to be safe and packed/wrapped his foot. After 4 days of treatment he finally seems to be moving significantly more comfortable. Aside from a small crack that has opened up on the medial side of his sole (white line-ish area) which nothing ever came out of - he seems to have mysteriously gotten better. I’m hoping that it was just an abscess that has worked it’s way out somehow.

In other news, I’ve definitely decided that the main source if Johnny’s lameness is his left hind leg, specifically somewhere in the stifle/hip area. Once his right front was useless, it was blazingly  aparent hoe much weight he’s been dumping into the right front to compensate for the left hind. There were a couple times over the last few days that he actually almost sat down in his stall because the left hind gave out so badly when he tried to shift weight onto it. The massuese is coming out Friday to give him a good once over and try to sort out some of his muscular issues and hopefully make him a little more comfortable so we can start to unravel this physical mess that he’s in.

I’m also hoping to get some riding done with Cool this weekend but we will have to see about that since my poor human child is sick 🤒

More on Friday after the masseuse comes.

Peace.Love.Ponies.