tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657955103086716631.post4699556526050844962..comments2023-10-09T04:52:59.121-06:00Comments on Trails to Lead Old Cowboys Home Again: Crack AddictCrickethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00834640625999522559noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657955103086716631.post-41917726787055801552016-04-30T05:50:53.676-06:002016-04-30T05:50:53.676-06:00Hang in there....thinking of you and Ashke!Hang in there....thinking of you and Ashke!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00637357119311659256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657955103086716631.post-54193133816965975032016-04-29T14:06:42.832-06:002016-04-29T14:06:42.832-06:00wound looks good. and yes that will have to be cu...wound looks good. and yes that will have to be cut off. maybe sooner than later. my horses do not do well with containment. i don't do stall rest even when asked to because they seem to do more damage than if they can walk around their pens..And they become fire breathing dragons.. funny how that works..Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06214109711229494198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657955103086716631.post-48494721942631918242016-04-29T13:02:13.297-06:002016-04-29T13:02:13.297-06:00I also use BOT boots for his legs when we are doin...I also use BOT boots for his legs when we are doing a long ride or where there are rocks that might get him. Crickethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00834640625999522559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657955103086716631.post-1660929354366909922016-04-29T13:00:42.057-06:002016-04-29T13:00:42.057-06:00They may look tight because they are shaved. I sha...They may look tight because they are shaved. I shave them in the spring to keep the mud from clotting in his fetlock hair and to prevent scratches. Over all, Ashke's legs stay tight unless we have done some really hard riding (like over serious rock or a WE clinic) or he's interfered with himself.Crickethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00834640625999522559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657955103086716631.post-71938433447666411632016-04-29T12:03:22.940-06:002016-04-29T12:03:22.940-06:00What a beautiful mess he is! He's Morafic all ...What a beautiful mess he is! He's Morafic all over.<br /><br />I had my first experience tonight of "Freedom or Death" and I'm totally annoyed. I shut my horse into a stall for the first time in the 3 months I've owned him. And he violently proclaimed that he'd never in his life been in a stall. (This is the stall he chooses to stand in every afternoon while eating hay/sleeping. And he was stalled more than not in his former life in East Germany.) But the door was closed. He fruck out and tried to break the place apart, which might actually happen, so I was glad I had the donkey right next to him, and then I shut myself and the donkey in the stall next to him and groomed her while he reached over and angrily tried to bite her but she's smart enough to stay 2 centimeters out of reach of his angry teeth. He was a total, well, before I called him a bratty toddler, today he was a nasty teenager.<br /><br />So they stayed in their stalls for the first time, for an hour (!) and with hay to eat!. And then I let them out but after Teenage Angst galloped to the pasture, he realized I was still grooming/loving on the donkey (and giving her snacks) and he went back and forth, pasture to barn, 4 times, ripping up the earth angrily. When he wanted to join us, I said, "No, due to your rambunctious behavior you are uninvited from this area." Oh boy. Teenage rage.<br /><br />I often think my horse is like yours in temperament, in many ways (not this bad though, no offense intended). Stirrup-biting impatience and the necessity to be doing whatever it is right now, thoroughly.<br /><br />Ironically I've taught him to stand tied, but to be shut in a stall, horror!<br /><br />Next level....coming up.<br /><br />PS Askhe's legs are really tight in these recent photos, despite the fact that he's in work, and I believe, he sleeps in a stall? Wow. Can you explain how you keep them this way when he's laid up?lythahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01719586193059362084noreply@blogger.com