The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread 11

[HairOfTheDog]

The FreeRepublic Saddle Club - (very out of date) Who's Who *pics*

This is a horse chat thread where we share ideas, ask for input from other horsemen, and talk about our riding and horse-keeping. We have a lot of different kinds of riders and horses, and a lot to share. In the previous threads we have had a great time talking through lessons, training, horse lamenesses, illnesses and pregnancies... and always sharing pictures and stories.

I always have a link to this thread on my profile page, so if you have something to say and can't find the thread in latest posts… look for it there and wake the thread up!

I also have a ping list for horse threads that are of interest, and MissTargets will now be pinging everyone most mornings. Let MissTargets and/or me know if you would like to be on the ping list. As FreeRepublic is a political site, our politics and other issues will probably blend in…. There are many issues for horsemen that touch politics… land use, animal rights/abuse cases that make the news…. Legislation that might affect horse owners.

So... like the previous threads, this is intended as fun place to come and share stories, pictures, questions and chit-chat, unguided and unmoderated and that we come together here as friends. There are lots of ways of doing things and we all have our quirks, tricks and specialties that are neat to learn about.

Previous threads:

The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - thread ONE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread TWO!
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread - Thread THREE!
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FOUR
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread FIVE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SIX
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread SEVEN
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread EIGHT
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread NINE
The FreeRepublic Saddle Club thread! - Thread TEN

New folk and occasional posters, jump right in and introduce yourselves, tell us about your horses, and post pictures if you've got them!

[CindyDawg]

I would ask the vet to culture it so you know what’s growing and what meds will kill it.

[HairOfTheDog]

I think the vet knows what it is... but if we’re going to have to treat all of them, we’re going to either need another way, or we have to get better at it.

[CindyDawg]

Probably but if I wasn’t seeing fast results I would want one. The last time I had to almost throw a fit to get one though.

[Duchess47]

I've never seen anything like that so I don't know what it is.

Obviously, though it's important that it be treated, whether Bay likes it or not. Do you have a twitch that you can use? Is the medicine a cream or drops?

[HairOfTheDog]

Check this out... the cauliflower stuff is normal. I’ve never seen it before... you can’t see it unless you shine a flashlight in it.

http://forum.horse.com/fb.asp?m=376140

[AnAmericanMother]

Well, THAT's a relief!

I never noticed it in my mare's eyes . . . I'll take a look when we get back from the coast.

[HairOfTheDog]

I don’t know if we’d have better luck with a twitch... I don’t own one and have only ever been mildly successful using them. I don’t think I’m strong enough with it.

The stuff we have to get in his eyes is a tube of stuff that is a gel, about the consistency of Neosporin. It’s hard to get from the tube into the eye without thinking I’m going to poke him. I’ve been putting it on my finger instead.

You know... Bay does raise his head, but the issue with him is that I have a real hard time pulling his eyelids out. They’re very tight, and he resists that part. The pony’s were easy to pull out, she’s got really buggy eyes.

[HairOfTheDog]

I’ve never seen it either... go somewhere dark and shine a flashlight in her eyes. It doesn’t look right to me, it looks like a growth, doesn’t it?

[Duchess47]

LOL - well, I guess that’s why I’ve never seen it, I’ve never shined a flashlight in amy of the horses eyes.

[Duchess47]

Gel makes it so much harder. I don’t have any good suggestions for that except what you are doing.

[CindyDawg]

Do you use the side of your finger. I make a line of ointment down my index finger and I lay it on the lower lid. When they blink you can tell if it got in because the eye is “oily” at first. Okie and Sarah Lee both throw their heads up when they see the tube. They are ok with my hand. I think maybe they think its the wormer coming:’)

[HairOfTheDog]

I try to do that... I’m not good at it.

[CindyDawg]

Drops are hard for me. I’ve tried palming the tubes so they can’t see them but they know. It’s like “Uh huh, I know you have something in your hand” :’)

[HairOfTheDog]

I have a hard time with drops in my own eyes... I can’t do visine :~)

[CindyDawg]

I can do visine but you should see my trying to put contacts in.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Wow, that’s a big ole tree.

Becky

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Has your vet seen it?

I’ve seen those before in horse’s eyes....I didn’t treat it, just never really thought about it being anything. Their eyes were never running or anything.

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

It ~was~ a big ole tree... now it’s a big ole former tree.

[HairOfTheDog]

The vet was pointing at something in Bay’s eyes, I thought he was pointing to those cauliflower looking things, apparently they’re normal and I didn’t actually see what he was trying to point out.

The vet hasn’t seen the pony’s, no. She just started up with the goop today. Hopefully the vet will assume it’s whatever Bay had, and tell me to just keep treating it for the next few days and see what happens.

So apparently I canceled our trail ride for no reason, I thought with those things in their eyes, maybe they couldn’t see! Doh!

[CindyDawg]

It was probably best to cancel today anyway, so they don’t get further irritation from trail stuff.