Finally the horses have normal turnout! Those high winds ate up the snow (Chinook Winds) so there was some benefit to them. Clearly there was plenty of rambunctious play - I see what I think is a kick on his hindquarters but it doesn't hurt when I press on it and it didn't break the skin. Yesterday he had his 220g rug on. When I went out mid morning to ride, I saw they were turned out so I just brought some food to him and changed out for his light weight rug. He was sweaty with the 220. I didn't ride as I knew he would have chosen turnout if he had the choice. Literally, it's been weeks since turnout.
Today I did ride, early to beat the wind. It was a very, very nice day especially before the wind came up. I was curious to see how he would go. I had a vet, Pam, out Thursday for an overall exam and she found many areas that, I wouldn't say were painful, but uncomfortable to pointed hard pressure. She did acupuncture and he did not show pain after - amazing. Still, he did not go differently today. We are going to do some follow up work with my regular vet Thursday. It's not surprising that at 15 he has some issues that need to be addressed in order to improve his gaits. I sent Nancy, my regular vet, the report from Pam and we will develop a plan of sorts so we can see what treatment has what effect. I expect most of what we will do will be to inject joints. Cross your fingers that it won't be too expensive!
Afterwards I went for a bike ride. Though the wind had come up I could not resist because it was 63F (17C)! Tonight it will be 22F (-5.5C) and tomorrow only 41F (5C). Oh well, at least we had one warm day. After that we worked on taxes - now we both feel very virtuous.
Caroline - why is it that when British power lines come down they don't spark fires? Dave and I were talking about it at dinner and we can't imagine why.
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I love acupuncture for my horses. Apparently Tetley is quite a trooper to keep on working hard despite some soreness. Not every horse (Tucker) is so generous.
ReplyDeleteI bet Tetley was thrilled to be out again!! How sweet of you to give him the day to enjoy it all.
We had bad wind yesterday too. My power went out, then on, then out, then out...and I heard a strange, loud hum in the wires outside. I headed out the front door to look and a car pulled in my driveway, honking its horn. The driver told me a tree was down on the wires a bit down the road and there was a fire.
I came in and had to get my cell phone from the car so I could call the police. Never did see where the tree was, but my neighbor said they were heading out and saw a huge flash.
It's been wet here and the tree was likely in the swamp, so, fortunately no more than perhaps a few flames and sparks. It took about 2 hours for the power to come back on. I'd hate to think what might have happened if we were in a drought.
So, here in NJ, downed power lines can start fires too.
Wow - that was a bit close for comfort! We have both been lucky this week to have damp ground!
ReplyDeleteThe British system is set up so that immediately a line is broken, the power to it is cut. The only way that a line could spark a fire is if the poles came down without breaking the line. Then the line would do an auto-close, but reopen twice more in an attempt to restore power and could spark a fire. But it would be extremely unusual in this country for poles to fall without the lines breaking and would certainly be a result of poor pole maintenance if it happened eg several poles in a row all rotten at the bottom at the same time. In the UK poles are sounded on a regular basis to ensure that this cannot be the case.
DeleteElectrical engineering module ii tomorrow, anyone :-)
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