with the horses, of course! Lyric is 22 and Dundee 25 (!) this year. They are both wonderful, just your usual-garden-variety monthly emergency vet visits....
November 07 - lyrics leg swells up BIG, not lame and goes away....
Feb 08 - Dundee manages to cut his face open right up to his eye - 8 stitches
March - Dundee can't breathe from the pine tree pollen, start him on SMZ and ventipulmin, he gets an alergic reaction to the SMZ and goes on benadryl...we avoid a trip to New Bolton...
April - Lyric gets an abscess, 3-legged lame and VERY pitiful. Almost as pitiful as me having to soak him every day! never breaks, but finally goes away..
June - Lyric makes a 30mph sliding stop on wet grass in the pasture, falls HARD and tears his hamstring and hurts his stifle on the L side...BAD PONY! several months of light work and very off behind...
July - Dundee colicked, first time ever....Poo-ed all nite but NO gut sounds and in a lot of pain til AM. so scary.
Sept -Garden variety dentistry
October -Lyric's "scratch" winds up being a 1/2" puncture; 3 weeks of SMZ and pink vetrap and cotton....both ponies get their Left stifle injected; Lyric's is prob sore from the fall in June and who knows with Dundee, but they play ALL day again, so I'm happy...
Nov - NOTHING - NOT ALLOWED - PIPE DOWN AND GRAZE! Both ponies are back in normal work and very happy :)
I'm having fun giving them racing stripes (my version of ever-expanding trace clips) as the temps drop. Kate, the newest (and cutest) member of the brood is wonderful. I trailered her out for a trail ride with friends last month and she was wonderful. Cows, running horses in pastures, deer, knee deep through a pond, she was great. her only gripe is when she gets tired! And I got a secret source for beautiful alfalfa for the boys. Alf is VERY hard to come by out here, and can be upwards of $40/bale. Yikes.
OK, more non-horsey-stuff next post, I promise!
November 07 - lyrics leg swells up BIG, not lame and goes away....
Feb 08 - Dundee manages to cut his face open right up to his eye - 8 stitches
March - Dundee can't breathe from the pine tree pollen, start him on SMZ and ventipulmin, he gets an alergic reaction to the SMZ and goes on benadryl...we avoid a trip to New Bolton...
April - Lyric gets an abscess, 3-legged lame and VERY pitiful. Almost as pitiful as me having to soak him every day! never breaks, but finally goes away..
June - Lyric makes a 30mph sliding stop on wet grass in the pasture, falls HARD and tears his hamstring and hurts his stifle on the L side...BAD PONY! several months of light work and very off behind...
July - Dundee colicked, first time ever....Poo-ed all nite but NO gut sounds and in a lot of pain til AM. so scary.
Sept -Garden variety dentistry
October -Lyric's "scratch" winds up being a 1/2" puncture; 3 weeks of SMZ and pink vetrap and cotton....both ponies get their Left stifle injected; Lyric's is prob sore from the fall in June and who knows with Dundee, but they play ALL day again, so I'm happy...
Nov - NOTHING - NOT ALLOWED - PIPE DOWN AND GRAZE! Both ponies are back in normal work and very happy :)
I'm having fun giving them racing stripes (my version of ever-expanding trace clips) as the temps drop. Kate, the newest (and cutest) member of the brood is wonderful. I trailered her out for a trail ride with friends last month and she was wonderful. Cows, running horses in pastures, deer, knee deep through a pond, she was great. her only gripe is when she gets tired! And I got a secret source for beautiful alfalfa for the boys. Alf is VERY hard to come by out here, and can be upwards of $40/bale. Yikes.
OK, more non-horsey-stuff next post, I promise!
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment