My silly old horse continues to amaze me. He's now been out with Granit, the grey Oldenberg mare, for over a week now. I think the old boy's smitten. I went over Wednesday night and took him out of the field to groom him. He was fine when he could see her... when I took him in the barn to work on hooves, he was calling nonstop for her! I'm so not used to him getting this attached to another horse! It was hysterical. Granit's owner told me that he paces nonstop when she takes Granit out (and the barn owner said he gets his exercise that way!)He had been sound for over a week now, almost two, so I hopped on him for about 10 minutes to see how he was going and he was FINE! Yay! He kept trying to eat grass, so that's something we need to work on now. I haven't ridden him in almost 2 months, so this could be something as a result of the grazing muzzle? Who knows, but I have to get on him because with that strong neck, if anyone else is riding, he can damned near pull them off when he drops that head to graze...
As for him being off, and laminitis, not laminitis, messed up feet, not messed up feet... I hope we've turned the corner with this! I'll mention it to the vet when they come out for check-ups and spring shots on May 7th.
He's doing well with the grazing muzzle. He loves dandelions, so I went after work earlier in the week, picked a bunch and fed them to him through the hole in the grazing muzzle. He was working it pretty well on his own, so I think he's "got it" with that now.
Funnier still is that there are three ponds in his new field... and there's evidence that he's wading out into them. Jill said they're only up to his knees or so, and that's about where the "waterline" is on him... and Granit has a similar "waterline" on her... I guess the oldies are splashing in the swimming hole together :-) It beats the younger geldings beating up on him!
