Posted on 08/07/2007 7:33:14 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Well I hope the vet can figure out something with Harley. He’s been gimpy for a long time!
Hopefully you’ll have them both sold before that sale comes around. I’ve never taken a horse to a sale before. I know that the sale barn gets a cut of the sale price and I’m assuming that you have the right to no-sale them if they don’t bring a decent price, in which case the sale barn would get some kind of minimum fee.
Yeah, these catalog sales do charge to put your horses in them, but they are a higher quality of sale, so I’d feel better about who got them, more then likely it wouldn’t just be any ole person like the sale barns around here.
Becky
Hopefully the cagalog sale would bring a better price too.
Morning all :~)
Stall stripping and hay/bedding purchasing today...
I’m hauling Harley to the vet this morning...in fact, I need to be getting going here pretty quick. I hooked up the trailer last night so I wouldn’t have to this morning since a cold front had been forecast to move in thru the night. It did, it’s cold and windy this morning.
Becky
OOhh sorry about cold and windy.
Good luck with the vet... Hope you like the answers you get. Both both you and Harley’s sake!
Check in later and let us know.
I’ve got the farrier coming tomorrow to reset Bob and shoe Hope, then have plans to meet BladeRider and her daughter for a ride down to The Narrows. I was just there, but she’s never been there so it sounded good to me. I’ll probably ride Hope since I have’t really ridden her since the first of the year.
You’ve got the farrier coming tomorrow too don’t you?
Yup... tomorrow is farrier day.
I’m interested in seeing what Bay’s feet look like under the shoes. I can’t say I’ve been real good about either picking them, treating them, or keeping the stalls clean, and I’m hoping they’re OK. I can’t see any visible sign that there’s bungus under there.
Which makes me think if they’re fine, that it really had something to do with what the NB shoes were doing to his circulation or something?
Yeah, it’ll be interesting. I’m the world’s worst about not cleaning out my horse’s feet, like ever, and I’ve never had that kind of problem. But then my farrier knows what he’s doing, and I just don’t think that NB farrier you had did. But then I would’ve never thought that the simple misapplication of a shoe would cause a fungus problem anyways. But I guess stranger things have happened.
I have never been a foot picker before either, that’s the thing. Bay had leather pads on in the mud and never got bungus before the NB shoer. And I don’t think he has it now.
But when he did have it, it was somehow related to the NB shoeing. I don’t know how it was related, but somehow I think it was more than just coincidence.
I guess Tiff is having a bar shoe put on Tell’s injured foot this weekend. Since he’s not being worked anyhow, I think she’d just having the one shoe put on.
Good morning ladies.
Becky, good luck at the vet’s, hope it is something simple with Harley.
Got the farrier coming here today also. It’s cold but the sun is shining and no wind so far.
Have a good day.
Back from the vet, and it is good news sort of:)....it’s not that leg, it’s fine, turns out he has a bad case of thrush...which isn’t good, but at least it’s an quick, easy fix, few days.
Becky
And...forgot to mention, I finally got around to calling the farrier, and he’s coming next Fri. I can’t even remember the last time he was here, but it was before Mack went to his first doctor, so it’s way over 2 months...
Becky
Oh - well! Good! Speaking of a bungus amongus!
What did she prescribe for it?
2-3 X’s a day cleaning out the feet and spraying bleach on the frog and down in the grooves.
Becky
The bad thing is our weather is not going to be conducive for having to go out there several times a day to treat him....have I mentioned I hate winter:)
I think you have mentioned that. ;~)
Bleach huh?
That’s good news about Harley.
So did the Farrier gods decide the farrier’s were in desperate need of money and impressed on all of us to call them out and hand over large amounts of cash?
I really like our farrier, I just really hate writing the check - got to sell some horses :)
Is that skepticism I detect?
Becky
I know what you mean about the prices of farriers...I’m truly considering just having shoes pulled and leaving them barefoot...I’m not riding, but then if I would get someone out here to look, I want them rideable...what to do...
Becky
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