BOOOOOO!!!!!

I checked Brego's feather and he has scratches. Crapcrapcrap. It's just on his hind legs, but still.... his skin under all that hair has been BEAUTIFUL until now. He is due for an ivermectine worming and he was due for oiling (putting mineral oil on the hair to help protect it) so i scrubbed him up really well and oiled him. Most of the loose scurf came off but he lost some hair up high that almost looks like urine scald... but old. Like it is already healing some.

He was fine last week when I dug under there checking the skin.

This wet weather we have been having, ugh. I'm actually wondering if he DID get urine scald. When I got home from the hospital his legs were just nothing but muck and it was almost a week before I could rinse them off...because, you know, surgery and stuff.... but that has been almost a month now. *sigh* I hope it freakin' dries up around here. The mud is just getting annoying. My run in never dries (he peepees in there and it has just not been dry enough to dry it all out). Even when the rest of the ground is dry he likes to play in yucky stuff.

Luckily it is mostly along the front of his hind legs so it is easier to get meds to that than to the back. He has a little on his heels but it's easy to get to as well.

At least his fronts still look really good *knock on wood*. But I used up the last of my oil so I need to get some more this weekend.

On second thought....

PHEWWW!!! I got the temp round pen torn down and moved out into the yard so they can go back to grazing, was going to put up the new divider fence and just ran out of steam. Spent a couple of hours scrubbing gourds and fizzled out on the energy again. My endurance is still slowly coming back but isn't up to 100% and I forget that. So looks like Brego gets a day off because I am WILTED!

Tomorrow I'll get the rest of the fence done... and will have a bigger area to ride him in safely.

Fencing fun!!

I need to construct a more permanent divider to give myself an area to work the horses safely and since my round pen is not looking likely any time soon it should most likely be inside my barn lot. But I need my temp posts back for grazing the yard. So today will be a long day of fence work. Blarg. Plus I have been working on cleaning gourds for three days and still have about half of them to do.


And still going to ride my horsie again, but wait until later in the day so I don't ride when I am here alone. It's not like I am working him hard physically, so I don't think it being warmer will be an issue, other than the sweat under my helmet, lol.