September 19, 2009 | Posted by Black Horse Rider
A few months back I was lucky enough to find a beautiful pasture to lease for our four horses. It’s five acres of beautiful grass, trees, seasonal creek and two shelters. The pasture hadn’t been used in a while and although it was fenced, there was some work that needed to be done to the [...]
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Tags: girls, hay, minature ponies, working | Comments Off
September 15, 2009 | Posted by Black Horse Rider
About four days ago our 15 y.o. QH mare Rain started walking funny, a kind of ‘John Cleese’ exaggerated comic walk except it was only the left hind leg doing it!
Now when I first saw her doing this I had no clue what was going on! I did all the usual stuff, checked the foot, [...]
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Tags: gaits, hay, lameness, new horse, pasture, stringhalt, trot, veterinarian, weeds | Comments Off