Do You Ride Horses? V.4

[Hime]

Been really nice sunny weather past 3 days, but I've been stuck at home due our one car being repaired and mom needing the other one. So no way to get to the stable until today. Heta's shedding like crazy already and with me not being able to groom her so often, means when ever I do groom her there's a mountain of fur on the ground when I'm done(though you can rarely been truely done with shedding Icelandic). >_< Took her for a walk today and it went nice since not so much snow stuck to her feet. So, other than imo shedding too much and too soon, Heta's doing okay. She's getting some shots tomorrow and I'll ask if the vet has de-wormers with her which I could already buy for the baby(and Heta could probably use a dose herself before foaling). If it were our usual vet I'd have probably asked her oppinion about the foal, but as it's not I think I'll pass as the vet coming over hasn't been that good in our experience...
I'm still little sick with the flu and now I got sore throat again after that stable trip... -__-

Also some barn drama, as don't we all secretly love it. lol One of the most recent boarders hasn't been around much and her young-ish gelding has been paddocking with the older geldings with pretty much 0 exercise. They are free fed hay and the hay they get is quite strong due the old ones' needs. Now this young gelding is pretty fat(you can just about feel his ribs though) and worst part is that top part of his neck is rock solid and really thick (=cresty neck). He's also moving bit odd imo. So L is thinking metabolic syndrome and made the owner call a vet before they try get that gelding loose weight by putting him with younger geldings(who get less strong hay). How ever it also came out somewhere in that talk, that the horse in question has had several laminitis episodes in past. O_O I'm really not going to be suprised if he does have metabolic syndrome for real... I also do feel sorry for L for some stupid things we boarders do. Like if the owner in this case had told L about the laminitis backround, the horse probably wouldn't be in this situation as it would not have been put on that stronger hay in the first place.

[Nocte Luna]

@ Hime
Barn drama can be interesting, haha, but wow. I always feel bad for kind barn owners when boarders do something that doesn't make their lives easier. Poor L, hopefully the gelding is alright and his owner comes to help out a little.

@ Amy Pony
Yay! Good to hear that Cleo is doing well. I'd say Queen of the Nile or something like that for a show name, but Kiss Me Cleopatra is nice too. c: Hope she's settling in well!

@ RunningRace
Good that your chute problem got all worked out so quickly! As far as tack boxes go, I carry multiple bags with me into the barn. I have a grooming tote and a tote bag. In my grooming tote I usually carry my lunch and water/tea, then when I get into the barn I take my lunch out and put what's been in my tote bag (crop, gloves, helmet, etc.) into my grooming bag. It's an okay system, though I've been considering investing in a small plastic tub to store all my stuff. Honestly, if you have as much/more stuff than I do, then I'd say get a tack box, because carrying stuff back and forth can get really annoying.

@ Personal update
I totally forgot what I wrote about last time, but it's been a little while, so here goes.
My lessons with my student have been going really well! We've moved on from getting our "posting rhythm" and we're focused on our hands and keeping them up as well as keeping our leg right where it is when we ask our pony to trot. I also briefly talked about the concept of diagonals, and also briefly talked about moving her up to K's lessons on Saturday with N's mother. She's doing so well, and I've found that I really enjoy teaching! I'm hoping I get to do more over the summer, because in my area I think the tendency is to start riding in the summer as part of the summer camp or just as a summer filler activity, then those who are serious continue into fall and sometimes winter.

I also rode Patrick and Gabby yesterday. Both of them bucked a little, but for different reasons. Gabby wanted to go more and I kept half-halting her, so she would buck, and Patrick hates going fast so when we went to quickly he would buck. I got some serious air time on Patrick though, but I stayed on, so that was alright.

I'm very excited for Sunday! Unfortunately though, I have to be at the barn at 9, which means I have to get up at 6:30-7 and get all my work done today because I'll be so busy/tired tomorrow and Sunday. I'll be helping tack/groom, get riders into the ring, probably help hand out ribbons, and maybe jump crew, depending on how much time it takes to care for Senator.

We also have sold many of the horses that have been for sale! Blue, this gorgeous dapple grey, was sold; Savannah, a great jumper horse, is on trial and will probably be sold; and one of the school horses has been on trial and his stall is now occupied by a new horse, so we're beginning to think that he was sold too.

It's almost the end of the park district class! This is week 5/6, I believe, so I only have to do a week or two more of eating a quick lunch and then tacking up a bunch of horses really quickly.

Anyways, I won't post an update until probably Monday or Wednesday, we'll see how the show goes.

[Chaotic Queen]

So I went to NH today to look at 2 pinto mini mares and the owner died the daughter in law is selling 2 pinto mini mares named Flicka and Misty! And we are gonna be buying them and they are gonna be bred to Bear Branch Painted Feather!


And I got to meet Bear Branch Painted Feather who is a 60 thousand dollar champion and he is the father of Enstine the smallest horse in the world! I got left alone with him and I'm surprised.


Do not steal or use this photo! If you do I will report you to the mods for theft! I got permission to take toms of pics of Feather.

[trees |-/]

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hey fellow horse lovers! haha....
so we now have two percheron crosses (one palomino and one white)
except they hate each other.... but yeah, any advice to kinda
see if they can get along? ♥

[Hime]

Almost forgot to share this. c:
Knock knock, who's there.
You may need to watch it couple times to spot the action...

[LissaJo]

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hey fellow horse lovers! haha....
so we now have two percheron crosses (one palomino and one white)
except they hate each other.... but yeah, any advice to kinda
see if they can get along? ♥

horses have different personalities like people - you cant force them to get along some horses will NEVER be friends

[trees |-/]

i know, it was more of a 'your both big scary drafts' thankfully they arent fighting, but we have put them back in the same pasture and they seem to be doing good with separate hay and water

[doriengray]

So I posted a while ago talking about the new donkey we had rescued, Pancho, so I guess I should let you all know he passed away a few weeks ago. We knew when we adopted him that he was old, and a couple weeks ago we had a heatwave and we're guessing his age mixed with the heat got to him. My horse Mushu was his paddock mate, and it was so sad to see how he reacted. We had a tractor coming in to help dig Pancho's grave, so to avoid injury to Mushu we attempted to halter him up but he wasn't having any of that, he got loose and galloped straight back down to Pancho's body. And then after Pancho was buried, he pawed at the grave for a few minutes.

He's 'gotten over it' now, but I think we might be looking for a new paddock mate soon. I'm hoping to rescue a horse from a horse auction to be his companion. :)

[SaraCO2013]

@soul, feather is gorgeous! good luck with the mares you will be getting! (:

[tequila.]

hi everyone c:
i am the proud owner of a 16hh, 5 year old, mare who i pretty much got for christmas, her name is
tequila - hence the username - and i'm hoping to start eventing her at BE90 this summer, i also want
to qualify for nationals again - as i did last year with my old pony- so fingers crossed.