Another week goes by...Oct is here

He got another trim this week. We also soaked his feet more, first the fronts and then the back. Measurements of all four were taken and documented. There were minor changes in width of the foot. There were more major changes in depth of the foot. Bulbs are trying hard to respond as is the baby frogs.

He stands well in the bucket. Sometimes goes to sleep and other times we just play 'barbie horse' and give a good massaging groom...sometimes he eats hay.

We try to do different things each day or each week and ask them to do things with us...just for fun. We are limited to ground training with Veggie. Today we jumped all the horses here at Equinextion in hand over a small jump or two in an area that will become my riding ring and we we call it the 'play pen'. Here is Veggies first try...and Beta. Beta is 24 years old and cantered on the line to the jump. He loves this kind of thing. :)

Then we got them jumping over a ditch I had to make to help collect and direct the rainfall and snow melt. Vegas is always very brave in these situations and does whatever we ask He doesn't hesitate and wonder why...he just tries to do it. I can't seem to find Veggies pic jumping the ditch so I'll put in Rico's to give you the idea. Fun stuff!!

He seems really in with the herd, and comfortable. He hangs around Jet and Rico mainly. He moves from Beta and he still thinks he can take Daas on a good day. ;) Here they are exploring the new jump in the play pen area.

It's course week and Vegas was very sore on the right front, pretty much three legged lame. I suspected an abscess but it's always bad to see them lame. He didn't seem to mind though. He ran anyways with the others but was extremely sweaty after and shaking on his left front, from taking all the weight. We soaked his feet that night as well, it was difficult to get him standing in the bucket; he was not feeling good, had lots of trouble putting weight on right front. This just screams abscess. At one point he rested his right front leg and right hind at the same time.

The next morning he was quite a bit better, and was weighting the right front a bit more. We soaked his feet again that night and noticed the black ooze coming out of the apex of the right front frog. He stood well in the bucket for soaking...must have felt good. His right front frog has peeled off, allowing the foot to open up, however he is now standing on a tender baby frog and baby bulbs. (See blog post on incredible peeling froggy)