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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
That’s positively UnAmerican! ;o)
2 years ago I had some sparrows run the swallows off. They made a horrible mess of the nest remodeling. They added so much crap to it, it fell off. The next year the swallows started from scratch.
I think mostly this nest gets left alone, (I’m surprised the swallows even started here), because it’s right above our front door, and someone or the dog/cat is always going in and out. Every year when they first show up, they will hop out of the next everytime someone goes in or out, after a while they seem to get use to it. But I think that fact keeps other birds away.
Becky
Well, this morning is SHOEING DAY...
Pray he shows up :~)
This afternoon is vet checks for everyone and shots. We’re late doing that.
It’s horse maintenance day.
Woah, Hair, your farrier has a tattoo on his head?
Lol. Well I do like hot dogs, apple pie and baseball if that counts.
He does... :~)
I will ~try~ to find a kosher way to take a picture :~)
Want to hear something else weird? I’m getting griped out because I think I should tip what I want, to who I want by several people on a 11/25 thread!
???? Whuzzat?
How’s Rocky’s cut/bandage holding up?
A thread I was on in 11/2005. It’s been inactive since then.
You mean somebody replied to something 2 years old? How strange!
He’s going to be bent over someone’s hoof at some point. I’d say snap away. Unless it’s on his forehead, and then... well... hmm.
What’s the 11/25 thread? Is it just someone looking to make trouble?
I doctored Rocky this morning. It doesn’t look bad, but I left the bandage off today. I just don’t like seeing them moist and damp looking all the time. And I want Mack to look at it too this evening. Rocky, after all is his horse.
I saw and interesting phenomena just now.Yesterday when I was coming home, I noticed a lot of hay meadow had been mown and were drying. Today it appeared the balers were trying to windrow the hay, but the wind is so bad, that parts of the windrows would break loose and go rolling across the meadow. They looked like giant caterpillars being rolled over and over:). I notice tractors just sitting, so maybe they are giving up. Too bad. Rain is forecast this evening. I’m sure they would like to get it bailed before that. But it might require chasing the hay down:)
Becky
I hope your farrier shows up, since the shoeing worked so well for Bay.
So what all do you do as yearly maintenance? Shots, teeth, sheath...? anything else?
Becky
Baling hay is not supposed to be a game of chase :~)
We’re hopefully only a couple weeks away from first cutting here... I am really looking forward to hay that is not this dusty old crap.
I know what you mean about wanting to give the foot some air dry time, they do end up grey and shriveled looking wrapped. Is it scabbed over or does it break open when he moves? Still lame on it?
Heh, I'll bet that DID look strange. I've never seen that happen before, but then we don't get that kind of wind around here very often. I hope they do manage to get it baled, but if they don't, it won't hurt it too bad to get wet as long as they let it dry out again before they bale it. Some people, specifically prople with insulin resistant horses like my Tennessee, like to get hay that's been rained on. It reduces the non-soluble carbs by quite a bit and keeps them from having to soak their hay if the NSC level is too high.
Shots and check teeth and sheath. And then have him take a real good look at Bay moving, I think he’ll be impressed with that, and that’s really his specialty, movement and lameness. So I want to talk about the long term for Bay.... mainly the pros and cons of continuing him on the Isoxuprine for what might end up being years. Are there any cons of that.
Basically, when we started treating him 3 years ago, I was hoping to keep him comfortable a few years... so I really didn’t ask about long term effects. I don’t know that there are any, but it’s worth asking if his system should have a break from it, like perhaps taking him off it in the winter (not now) and watching...
Heck... it’s even possible he no longer has Navicular symptoms.
I had part of this conversation with his wife, who has a Navicular dressage horse herself and is almost as good as he is on this stuff, but I want to have the rest of the conversation so we’re on the same page.
He’s still favoring it some, not as much tho.
I’ve never seen proud flesh, and I can’t find a picture of it in early stages...and altho the cut looks pretty good no infection or oozing, I’m wondering if it’s not growing some already. Is that possible? The cut looked filled in with some yellowish looking meat, is the only way I can describe it. I think I remember cuts doing that tho. It’s been so long since I’ve dealt with a cut. I guess I could go take a picture:) I want Mack to see it to determine if he thinks we should have it looked at.
I washed it well with a washcloth and hot soapy water, then applied medicine, and left him standing tied till it dried.
Becky
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