Gute Patient
Treatment for Dakota's summer sore has been going on for a week now. These things are nasty. Sunny has one on her mouth that after three weeks is almost healed.
Dakota's sore was on her navel so gravity helps it drain and it isn't being constantly harassed by foodstuff like Sunny's.
That said Dakota has been a much better patient than I was expecting from the start. I was thinking I would be dodging kicks and have a fight on my hand to boot. Total opposite. She appears to enjoy it and stands quite well despite scrubbing salt into it, hosing it out, and applying layers of ivermectin, DMSO, and Swat.
It is looking much improved as well. Her ventral edema has gone down by more than 60% and the wound itself is filling in nicely. I am charging $20 a day for wound care, which Mom said was fair. Having the vet or a tech come out and doit would easily be double so there you go.
The only problem is preventing Hershey from eating the antibiotics that we did a round of because Dakota had difficulty rising one morning (didn't get up until I was putting food in the feeder) and had tremors in her right hind. She is still a little stiff behind, but much improved than the initial day. I've also come to notice her front feet don't match and one is much more upright and the other has a dish and Mom said she'd come out and have me show her what was going on so she could talk to her farrier. If he doesn't start correcting it I think Kevin will be getting the pair of them back (Hershey's feet are starting to look weirder too after three years of this).
Tomorrow will be long. I am looking after a herd of Icelandics plus some dogs and cats for a lady so I'll be getting up at 4am to run and care for them before feeding my herd and being ready for my 6am lesson. I have a break at 8am, but I will probably work Cinnamon and then have two more lessons before the final open studio day, which will be running from 12-4pm instead of 1-4pm because I am a pushover, but it's the last day and I'd like to have an extra hour to work on that drawing that I haven't touched in a week. And I told the two who will be arriving early that I'll be eating lunch so it works.
I had my first training since April and either I am out of shape or the heat and humidity really sucks it out of you. Kitt was VERY forward and volunteered the canter a couple times. She also humped up when I asked for the canter the first time, goober. She was a bit rushy over the ground poles so we worked that and also got her canter going and holding without her rushing or falling in or out. My legs were unhappy.
I didn't get a whole lot of input from Michelle as her other student had more issues to work through, but at this stage it is eyes on the ground, her facilities, and the outside perspective to work through knots. I had Kitt in the Evolution and she did well in it. She was heavy here and there, but that is Kitt. She did have a couple really nice canter to halt transitions. Next time I hope we have ourselves together enough to do a little jumping.
We should be ordering the cargo container that we will slowly convert into a tack room for the property. I don't remember if I mentioned the guy that bid it out last week at $10 a linear foot fornthe trenching. Hahaha. Friend of my parent's and Mom got to tell hin that $7000 for 700 feet of trenching was ridiculous. He came back eith $2500 and that's just not going to work. Where'd the other 4500 go? He's a professiknal landscaper and probably used to little backyards where the max footage for the piping is 100'. Did I mention that didn't include laying pipe or anything? Yeah. I need to get the numbers and names of a couple guys who did stuff for our house and maybe we'll just wait until it cools down and donit ourselves. Once the container is here we have a place to store the pvc at least.
Dakota's sore was on her navel so gravity helps it drain and it isn't being constantly harassed by foodstuff like Sunny's.
That said Dakota has been a much better patient than I was expecting from the start. I was thinking I would be dodging kicks and have a fight on my hand to boot. Total opposite. She appears to enjoy it and stands quite well despite scrubbing salt into it, hosing it out, and applying layers of ivermectin, DMSO, and Swat.
It is looking much improved as well. Her ventral edema has gone down by more than 60% and the wound itself is filling in nicely. I am charging $20 a day for wound care, which Mom said was fair. Having the vet or a tech come out and doit would easily be double so there you go.
The only problem is preventing Hershey from eating the antibiotics that we did a round of because Dakota had difficulty rising one morning (didn't get up until I was putting food in the feeder) and had tremors in her right hind. She is still a little stiff behind, but much improved than the initial day. I've also come to notice her front feet don't match and one is much more upright and the other has a dish and Mom said she'd come out and have me show her what was going on so she could talk to her farrier. If he doesn't start correcting it I think Kevin will be getting the pair of them back (Hershey's feet are starting to look weirder too after three years of this).
Tomorrow will be long. I am looking after a herd of Icelandics plus some dogs and cats for a lady so I'll be getting up at 4am to run and care for them before feeding my herd and being ready for my 6am lesson. I have a break at 8am, but I will probably work Cinnamon and then have two more lessons before the final open studio day, which will be running from 12-4pm instead of 1-4pm because I am a pushover, but it's the last day and I'd like to have an extra hour to work on that drawing that I haven't touched in a week. And I told the two who will be arriving early that I'll be eating lunch so it works.
I had my first training since April and either I am out of shape or the heat and humidity really sucks it out of you. Kitt was VERY forward and volunteered the canter a couple times. She also humped up when I asked for the canter the first time, goober. She was a bit rushy over the ground poles so we worked that and also got her canter going and holding without her rushing or falling in or out. My legs were unhappy.
I didn't get a whole lot of input from Michelle as her other student had more issues to work through, but at this stage it is eyes on the ground, her facilities, and the outside perspective to work through knots. I had Kitt in the Evolution and she did well in it. She was heavy here and there, but that is Kitt. She did have a couple really nice canter to halt transitions. Next time I hope we have ourselves together enough to do a little jumping.
We should be ordering the cargo container that we will slowly convert into a tack room for the property. I don't remember if I mentioned the guy that bid it out last week at $10 a linear foot fornthe trenching. Hahaha. Friend of my parent's and Mom got to tell hin that $7000 for 700 feet of trenching was ridiculous. He came back eith $2500 and that's just not going to work. Where'd the other 4500 go? He's a professiknal landscaper and probably used to little backyards where the max footage for the piping is 100'. Did I mention that didn't include laying pipe or anything? Yeah. I need to get the numbers and names of a couple guys who did stuff for our house and maybe we'll just wait until it cools down and donit ourselves. Once the container is here we have a place to store the pvc at least.