some updates

In a nutshell: Allie and Lady are both on colic watch; Allie bagged up and is now due ahead of Lady; both girls due dates have been moved to next month; Thumps probably fine; I need valium.

Vet was out today, as Lady wouldn't eat her grain and figured have Allie checked since she started bagging up last week. Lady left grain yesterday morning, last night and then refused it this morning. Not like her at all. I weighted my scoop and it weighs a pound and the bag says to feed them 7-10lbs a day. Not a chance they were going to get that much since Lady was only getting half a scoop twice a day and Allie was getting 1 scoop twice a day, but I increased them to 2 scoops twice a day. Vet looks at my scoop and says it's a 3lb scoop. Nope, I weighed it. She says get your scale. So I go in house and get it and she weighs it and it says 1 lb. She then weighs herself then adds the scoop and she gains 3lbs. My scale isn't sensitive enough to pick up 3lbs...who knew? So I was actually giving them 6lbs a day. Ok, well that's still under what the bag says to feed. She says lets see the bag. I open the cabinet we keep the unopen feed in and she pulls one out to read it and after about 10 mins of reading looks up and says it's based on feeding no hay. Who feeds no hay? She agreed that label was totally misleading and to give them both 1 scoop twice a day. grrr.

Also, since Lady is twice the size of Allie and supposedly due two weeks before her, I watch Lady. Well, just noticed last week that Allie is bagging up. WAYYYY too early! Both girls foaled last May and aren't supposed to be due until April. So vet checked her out today and yup, she's bagging up. Vet gives me big smile and says by end of March, I'll have two foals and Allie's probably first. Gee, and Mike originally told me June. Ha.

So why she's here I ask her if she had checked Thump's vision. She says yes, it was fine, as she walks over to him (for he's right there waiting to see what we are going to do with all the feed bags pulled out) and does a quick check. Second check shows no vision problems and she asks why I asked so I told her that I can't lounge him to the right. She picks up my lounge line and says "lets go". (have I mentioned that I really really love my vet?). I get halter and lead on him and we go outside. She has me jog him away from her then towards her then flex to each side first. Then has me lounge him left which he does perfectly. Flat out refuses to go right so she tries and he refuses to go for her too. She checks all 4 legs and hold them up stretching them around and asks me a bunch of questions about how he is riding. Of course since we simply walk, not much I could tell her other than I have no problems turning him either way. She could find nothing wrong but didn't like the idea that he fell either. Her recommendation was to lounge him in two sessions with the first session going right then later in the day, go left. Gaia? Issues? She also said to get a lounge whip because if he is just calling my bluff then it's easier to guide him with the whip. I did lounge him this morning and had a much easier time going right but what I ended up doing was flexing him right then having him kind of go off from that. It worked a couple of times then he caught on to what I was doing.

Anyway, my vet's here for over 2 hours and checks 3 horses and apologizes for having to charge me $90.00 because I made the appt for both Lady and Allie. If I had just said Lady on the phone, she could have just charged me $45.00.
Oh yeah, and my barn cam will be here Friday so I can watch the girls from bed instead of running out to the barn hourly :-)

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