Horse update: Vet Appointment
Diamond had her first vet appointment with us this morning. She was AWESOME! She didn't even flinch when she got her shots, and didn't care at all about the nasal vaccine. Wow. She snorted one time and then went back to eating hay. No big deal at all. She didn't get afraid of the vet or anything.
DOLLY heard the vet's voice from a distance and tried to get away. She hates shots SO MUCH. But she was actually better this time than usual. She tried to get away but she didn't clobber me like usual. I was able to hold her in place and the vet was able to administer the shot. Wow!
Good job to both horses!
I learned a lot about Diamond from the vet too. She thinks that she knows Diamond's full-sibling and some issues to watch out for with her development. So Diamond is now back to hay 24/7 and the vet didn't think that Dolly's weight was THAT out of control. She said it would probably be okay to keep them both on 24/7 hay, and that the gorging would go away after a while of being on it (if I can afford that!). But she also said that monitoring Dolly's feed would be okay, but that Diamond is in a critical stage of development, and that for her especially she needs to have all the hay she wants at all times. Also, I am to go and buy Vitamin E capsules (for humans) to put in her daily feed, because she suspects that Diamond wasn't getting enough from grass and stuff this summer (their pasture was pretty torn up from horse hooves and munching). I believe she thought it would be good for Dolly, too.
DOLLY heard the vet's voice from a distance and tried to get away. She hates shots SO MUCH. But she was actually better this time than usual. She tried to get away but she didn't clobber me like usual. I was able to hold her in place and the vet was able to administer the shot. Wow!
Good job to both horses!
I learned a lot about Diamond from the vet too. She thinks that she knows Diamond's full-sibling and some issues to watch out for with her development. So Diamond is now back to hay 24/7 and the vet didn't think that Dolly's weight was THAT out of control. She said it would probably be okay to keep them both on 24/7 hay, and that the gorging would go away after a while of being on it (if I can afford that!). But she also said that monitoring Dolly's feed would be okay, but that Diamond is in a critical stage of development, and that for her especially she needs to have all the hay she wants at all times. Also, I am to go and buy Vitamin E capsules (for humans) to put in her daily feed, because she suspects that Diamond wasn't getting enough from grass and stuff this summer (their pasture was pretty torn up from horse hooves and munching). I believe she thought it would be good for Dolly, too.