Well me and Lucas are restriced to hand walking only for a couple of weeks. Farrier came in today and spent an hour with the BO working on his feet. He put him back in the angled alum shoes that he wore all summer (well new shoes but same type) Cleaned out his frog that was thrushy.
Good news is that he thinks he has a couple of bruses that have turned into abcesses due to the change in shoeing (that 8 weeks between trims is still kicking us) The thrush in his frog is not helping either. He also thinks that he may have a slight strain to his sespensory lig. in his right foot due to the bad angles.
So a week of soaking both his front feet and scrubbing the foot with thrush with a suger and iodine scrub to get out the thrush.
Im so mad a the farrier I could kick him, but hes spending alot of time trying to fix him at no cost to me... So Im thinking that he'll be off untill atleast the end of January. He can still go out in the indoor (as long as he doesnt play) and we can still do a bit of walking every day, but the real chalange will be keeping him from getting to board while he heals. Thankfully hes in a stall with lots of traffic (next to the tack room and the closest cross ties) and the 'in training horses' will all start coming in soon as well, which will keep alot of activy in the barn in front of him.
4 comments:
Sorry to hear that you're both grounded. Hopefully the time will pass quickly and you'll be back working again.
Well that's a bummer... hopefully it's just what he needs to get better though!
Doesn't sound like a good thing to have to deal with right now. Hope he heals quickly and doesn't get too bored while he's recovering.
It could be alot worse, it could be summer when we both want to go show. Hopefully he will heal well, and quickly :) Im going to try to get photos tonight.
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