Now it's getting warmer again....weather is so dynamic...as is the natural horse. Able to handle double digit freezing temperatures with changes up to double digit plus temps and back down again in flash freezes from rains to ice to ice pellets to snowing and blowing.
I did some night video for fun in a major storm. Most people are so worried about the horses going out at night or being in a storm. When I took the video...it had already been storming for over 12 hours. I personally love storms. Winter storms that is. Makes me feel so alive!
Veggie has been playing like never before all of January. He is happy and content to play with all the horses now. It's good to see. He tries to warn of his vicous kick but lately only popsup his hind end. Daas just scoots around to the front and Veggie starts playing with him again. 
His feet are coming along...still a ways to go. They look light years ahead of where they started but still a long way to go to have 'beautiful' feet.
It makes me so sad to see his body and feet and know how they got that way. It's so sad to know that there are soooo many other horses in the world that are living his past right now. I wonder what it will take to induce a massive global change!? I wonder how many cases I (we)have to show and to whom...so that the conventionals will lend an ear.
Vegas...so far gone and under developed at such a young age because of what he was bred for. Color, speed..and money! He suffered because of it. Beauty turns beast!
Angry young horse, like so many others in pain and agony, in confined quarters and always hungry standing on hurting feet in soft bedding with toes pointed down and shoes on to squeeze to numbness, pads to rot everything under the guise of 'protection', and drugs and confinement to help with the pain?? I fail to understand why he and so many others are literally tortured under the hands of farriers and vets...the BEST in the land...and forced to endure. If they don't...they are beaten until submission or cast off and another more tolerant horse will take the place.
On the last day of January...the RF frog fell off again. It started to peel this time from the apex back and came off in one big peice again. I cut the rest of the big 'flap' off and was going to take a picture of it...but before I could...my dog ate it. :) oops.
I was able to take his heels back a lot more and uncover yet more hidden heel. Poor ingrown toenails are trying to come out and take their rightful place.
He has been doing great with his running and even plays when running now. He is really into rearing these days. Spends a lot of time on his hind legs...stretching up. He used to have an angry face when 'playing' but now has a consistent contented look. Finally he realizes that NO one is out to get him...he is sane! He answers to his name and is starting to come when called individually.
Here is Beta, Rico and Veggie playing with a stick.
