Well I haven't posted here for a week, that's mainly because I have nothing to report except that my horse is now completely better.

Had to ease off the traing for a while to let the cut on his front leg heal. It was quite a bad one and need constant daily treatment. I was worried he might develop 'proud flesh' that mysterious affliction of horses that doesn't affect us, or any other mammal as far as I am aware. It is nasty when the proud flesh development goes into overdrive and starts building more tissues, and more...and more...and more...until there is a huge mountain of flesh where the wound used to be.

I applied Animlintex soaked in boing water and allowed to cool and bandaged it on. It did a good job of getting out any infection and leaving the wound clean enough to start the dry treatment. For that, i hosed his legs down and then towel dried them and applied sulphanilamide powder. Every horse owner should have those two items in their horse first aid. Oh and a Great Tip from my Mom. Apply every day, two times a day is also okay a solution of 50% hydrogen peroxide and 50% water. Use the every day stuff you can get from the chemist, it is sold for peroxiding hair, this is 3% solution and mix it 50/50 with water. Beleive me it is fabulous stuff and NO Germs will be able to live there EVER. It is really cheap too.
The chemical formula of it is H2O2 so it is exactly like water but with one extra molecule of oxygen. It really does work wonders.

Let me know anyone if you try my tip and tell me what you think
Cheers!

I have had a serious set back this week end to my ongoing training programme. I arrived at the stables on Saturday about 4.00pm just in time to see my horse going crazy. He was literally climbing the walls I kid you not. He was breathing fire and scrambling and climbing up the walls to try to get over to the other side. He was demonic as if we was possessed. I didn't know what to do. The sight of him in this uncontrollable wild state caused me deep anxiety. Already he had cut his legs by scraping them on the walls. I was desperate, what can I do? I called my mum and told her everything - she said right, move him NOW to another stable, one with four solid walls and a door. Put him in there and shut the door and leave him there. Give him nothing but bran mash this evening and for the next 3 days. Check his legs, if there are bad wounds I will come over and treat them now. If superficial put hydrogen peroxide on them and leave them. She said if he is not moved now he is in danger of killing himself.
I did everything she said and it worked. It took him an hour or so to settle once he was moved into the other stable.

I will write again tomorrow on his condition and tell you all a lot more. It is late now.

I have had a serious set back this week end to my ongoing training programme. I arrived at the stables on Saturday about 4.00pm just in time to see my horse going crazy. He was literally climbing the walls I kid you not. He was breathing fire and scrambling and climbing up the walls to try to get over to the other side. He was demonic as if we was possessed. I didn't know what to do. The sight of him in this uncontrollable wild state caused me deep anxiety. Already he had cut his legs by scraping them on the walls. I was desperate, what can I do? I called my mum and told her everything - she said right, move him NOW to another stable, one with four solid walls and a door. Put him in there and shut the door and leave him there. Give him nothing but bran mash this evening and for the next 3 days. Check his legs, if there are bad wounds I will come over and treat them now. If superficial put hydrogen peroxide on them and leave them. She said if he is not moved now he is in danger of killing himself.
I did everything she said and it worked. It took him an hour or so to settle once he was moved into the other stable.

I will write again tomorrow on his condition and tell you all a lot more. It is late now.

Well I decided to take my horse swimming over the week-end.
It is a 20 minute walk from the stables to the beach and the weather was nice, so I got my cozi one under my riding clothes and off we went. We ambled along nicely and his nose went up as soon as he could smell the sea air. The beach was deserted, only one or two people strolling along. Nobody seemed to take any notice of us which was good.
He went straight into the water and started swimming immediately. It felt like being on Pegasus, very surreal, a smooth almost flying sensation. It is so strange to sit up on top of a horse while he is swimming, his legs thrash out to the side in a really wide circular motion, and all the time he is bobbing his head up and down to keep his balance. I could tell, even with my tiny weight on him that he had to exert a little more effort to keep his head up and out of the water as well as keeping his balance.

He really loved it.

It is such a good exercising technique too, for it brings all the muscles into play. I am very fortunate to be so close to the sea.

We ambled home quite happily at sunset. What a wonderful day!
I will try and get some pictures posted.