Fairly uneventful week I think. Done around an hour and 10mins walking each day and he's been back to what he would normally be like to hack - nicely forwards and far too jumpy but not completely mental.
Is now being fed 3kg hay a night as grass has really stopped growing and wearing 100g rug. Rest of feed/supplement regime the same.
Finally start trot work next week!
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
End of week 7
Trot work is getting closer! I did let him trot a few strides today as he felt like he might explode otherwise and he felt ok so that is good :)
So we have done another week of walk work - this time at an hour a day. He has been very sparky and spooky and full of himself.
Still 2 wks to go before trot work starts - will try and do 1hr15mins of walk this week.
Still out 24/7. Have made his fields slightly bigger but the grass is getting quite eaten down now so will be needing hay soon.
So we have done another week of walk work - this time at an hour a day. He has been very sparky and spooky and full of himself.
Still 2 wks to go before trot work starts - will try and do 1hr15mins of walk this week.
Still out 24/7. Have made his fields slightly bigger but the grass is getting quite eaten down now so will be needing hay soon.
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
End of week 6
Not a lot to report!
A very boring week of 45mins walking on the road every day. Moved from CCC back to Winning Edge at the weekend. Yest and today he has been very sparky - typical spooky sharpness though rather than complete mentalness and better than complete deadness that we had last week. Still out 24/7. Still on extra Mg and Optimax. No ACP.
Move up to an hours walking from tomorrow then only 3wks to go before we can introduce some trot - yay!
A very boring week of 45mins walking on the road every day. Moved from CCC back to Winning Edge at the weekend. Yest and today he has been very sparky - typical spooky sharpness though rather than complete mentalness and better than complete deadness that we had last week. Still out 24/7. Still on extra Mg and Optimax. No ACP.
Move up to an hours walking from tomorrow then only 3wks to go before we can introduce some trot - yay!
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
End of week 5
Wed and Thur - 45mins round the roads all ok.
Been out 24/7 since Thur evening and is visibly piling on the pounds but seems much happier.
Had Fri/Sat off as was at Burghley.
Had 10 ACP BID Thur/Fri/Sat - not had any since.
Started equifeast optimax and extra Mg on Thur. No supplements Mon/Tue.
Hack with Sox Sunday evening - behaved like a donkey whole way round.
Hack by himself Mon/Tue/Wed - considering no ACP is behaving much better - more like his normal self - jumpy/spooky but not wired. Went in the riding field last night as too dark to go out - did some large circles, bit of leg yield and otherwise just plodded round the edge of the field - super boring stuff.
Feedwise is getting handful of D&H Convalescence Mix, handful of Good Doer and handful of Fast Fibre BID to mix supplements with.
Did 55mins hack today and all was fine. This is our last week at 45mins so going to aim to do more like 50mins then we're ready to move up to an hour from next Wed.
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
End of week 4
Have mostly managed roughly 45mins walking every day this week. Mon and Tue did 30mins round the block then 15mins in the school as was losing the light - he didn't feel like he was liking the school surface very much - really ploddy. All hacks have been good though - all solo but back on 15 ACP a day and happy ploddy hacks with no explosions. Sunday he had 10 ACP and I rode him 2hrs later and that was a bit scary as he was rather drunk and nearly tripped over at one point so lesson learnt there.
Today I gave him 10 ACP as was planning on riding at lunchtime as on half day but had to wait until nearly 5pm due to torrential rain. He was full of it all the way round the hack, really marching forwards which is how I like him except when we got back to joining the main road and I could just feel he wasn't in the mood for standing still and because we'd had to wait till that time it was really busy. Turned him round and walked back the wrong way for a bit and then tried again but still constant traffic. He wouldn't stand at all, reared up and just leapt sideways straight into the traffic and only just missing a bicycle :(
Stupid me forgot to give him his 2days off the Cool, Calm and Collected both weekends so he had Mon/Tue off instead and went back on it this morning. Not sure if that will have had any effect or not. Spoke to Equifeast and they said maybe he needs more Mg, not less so sent me extra to try and also Optimax which is l-tryptophan so will start him on them tomorrow and see what happens!
He has been pretty calm to turn out and bring in this week since back on ACP even though it's not actually working by time he is turned out. Think just one morning where he had a bit of a leap but nothing major.
Leg still looking fine - cross fingers.
Another week of 45mins daily planned although he will miss Friday as I'm away at Burghley and he is also gonna stay out Thur/Fri night so will be interesting to see what his behaviour is like on Sat evening when I come back. Hopefully better for being out and having the extra Mg.
Today I gave him 10 ACP as was planning on riding at lunchtime as on half day but had to wait until nearly 5pm due to torrential rain. He was full of it all the way round the hack, really marching forwards which is how I like him except when we got back to joining the main road and I could just feel he wasn't in the mood for standing still and because we'd had to wait till that time it was really busy. Turned him round and walked back the wrong way for a bit and then tried again but still constant traffic. He wouldn't stand at all, reared up and just leapt sideways straight into the traffic and only just missing a bicycle :(
Stupid me forgot to give him his 2days off the Cool, Calm and Collected both weekends so he had Mon/Tue off instead and went back on it this morning. Not sure if that will have had any effect or not. Spoke to Equifeast and they said maybe he needs more Mg, not less so sent me extra to try and also Optimax which is l-tryptophan so will start him on them tomorrow and see what happens!
He has been pretty calm to turn out and bring in this week since back on ACP even though it's not actually working by time he is turned out. Think just one morning where he had a bit of a leap but nothing major.
Leg still looking fine - cross fingers.
Another week of 45mins daily planned although he will miss Friday as I'm away at Burghley and he is also gonna stay out Thur/Fri night so will be interesting to see what his behaviour is like on Sat evening when I come back. Hopefully better for being out and having the extra Mg.
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Made it to the end of week 3
Well, another interesting week in the world of the orange horse.
Monday was 2nd week of being on mag free version of CCC. If anything think his general behaviour has deteriorated. He has been utterly wild to lead out to the field in the morning snaking head and threatening to try and piss off. On Monday after having the farrier and being back to the annoying, impatient, rude horse I bought I turned him out and he leapt in the airs and turned himself inside out - fortunately just that and didn't then go mental. He was also awful to bring in that night, rearing then fly bucking :(
Put him back on 200mg ACP yesterday and have had 2 lovely calm rides. Actually he was also calm on Sunday because he had Sox with him and Sat because he had Winnie with him but last Fri/Thur on his own teetering on a knife edge. Pesky horse - cant keep him on bloody ACP forever! We ended up out for 50mins on Sunday as normal route blocked. Tried to get round and ended up going down the muddiest byway which has been totally wrecked by 4x4's using it for green-laning. Had to go so slow to try and pick through best of the ground - wont be going down there again in a hurry. Hopefully not done him any harm as due to go up to 45mins today anyway.
So, here we start week 4 and up to 45mins of walking although this week I might alternate 30 with 45 and then 45 every day from next week. Good news is the leg still looks all ok - cross fingers it stays that way.
Monday was 2nd week of being on mag free version of CCC. If anything think his general behaviour has deteriorated. He has been utterly wild to lead out to the field in the morning snaking head and threatening to try and piss off. On Monday after having the farrier and being back to the annoying, impatient, rude horse I bought I turned him out and he leapt in the airs and turned himself inside out - fortunately just that and didn't then go mental. He was also awful to bring in that night, rearing then fly bucking :(
Put him back on 200mg ACP yesterday and have had 2 lovely calm rides. Actually he was also calm on Sunday because he had Sox with him and Sat because he had Winnie with him but last Fri/Thur on his own teetering on a knife edge. Pesky horse - cant keep him on bloody ACP forever! We ended up out for 50mins on Sunday as normal route blocked. Tried to get round and ended up going down the muddiest byway which has been totally wrecked by 4x4's using it for green-laning. Had to go so slow to try and pick through best of the ground - wont be going down there again in a hurry. Hopefully not done him any harm as due to go up to 45mins today anyway.
So, here we start week 4 and up to 45mins of walking although this week I might alternate 30 with 45 and then 45 every day from next week. Good news is the leg still looks all ok - cross fingers it stays that way.
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
Eventful second week at home
Another week been and gone - thank god!
Managed 30mins walk every day this week, although hasn't always been walk - fair bit of jogging, piaffe, passage and a few pirouettes thrown in for good measure.
He had ACP until last Friday but not had any since - not sure not having it has made a huge difference as he was still quite mad last week on it. He is now out all day and behaving very well in the field as far as I know - no sign of skid marks anyway! Still in at night.
Has been having 3kg haylage and 3kg soaked hay at night so planning on cutting out the haylage. Food wise is on handful on high fibre nuggets, big handful of good doer and a small scoop of Fast Fibre - think that should all be pretty low energy. He's also on Cool, Calm and Collected, plus chammomile and Valerian. He started CCC mag free on Monday having had Winning Edge Gold all last week (full mag version) and before that was on full mag loading version of CCC for 5wks. They sent me 5wks free CCC mag free to see if that improves his behaviour - not so far lol!
Riding wise he has lost the plot - unless he's with a friend in which case he's happy to plod along behind - but if he's on his own he's a liability. Spooking at everything and as soon as we pass the furthest point of the ride he's jogging and pratting around. God forbid we have to stop at the junction onto the main road because patience is very limited and before long he will just launch into the main road regardless of what is coming. Monday morning there was a lorry blocking the route and instead of just standing and waiting he leapt up onto a bank and then plunged into the main road - twice. He is trying to kill us both :(
Yesterday he kicked me because he is just so bloody wired at the moment. Followed Sox up from the field, went to put him in the stable, for whatever reason he pulled back and said no, pulling lead rope out of my hand. I went to bend down and grab it, for some reason changed my mind and just stepped forward to put my foot on it and he just let rip with a hindfoot catching me square on the hip. Thank god I didn't bend down to get it or that might have been my head :( He's always getting loose and I always just grab the rope or step on it to stop him so nothing unusual. Cant believe he actually aimed and kicked me like that. Not like him at all. Not sure why he has had such a personality transplant. He was better behaved when just on 100% box rest.
Managed 30mins walk every day this week, although hasn't always been walk - fair bit of jogging, piaffe, passage and a few pirouettes thrown in for good measure.
He had ACP until last Friday but not had any since - not sure not having it has made a huge difference as he was still quite mad last week on it. He is now out all day and behaving very well in the field as far as I know - no sign of skid marks anyway! Still in at night.
Has been having 3kg haylage and 3kg soaked hay at night so planning on cutting out the haylage. Food wise is on handful on high fibre nuggets, big handful of good doer and a small scoop of Fast Fibre - think that should all be pretty low energy. He's also on Cool, Calm and Collected, plus chammomile and Valerian. He started CCC mag free on Monday having had Winning Edge Gold all last week (full mag version) and before that was on full mag loading version of CCC for 5wks. They sent me 5wks free CCC mag free to see if that improves his behaviour - not so far lol!
Riding wise he has lost the plot - unless he's with a friend in which case he's happy to plod along behind - but if he's on his own he's a liability. Spooking at everything and as soon as we pass the furthest point of the ride he's jogging and pratting around. God forbid we have to stop at the junction onto the main road because patience is very limited and before long he will just launch into the main road regardless of what is coming. Monday morning there was a lorry blocking the route and instead of just standing and waiting he leapt up onto a bank and then plunged into the main road - twice. He is trying to kill us both :(
Yesterday he kicked me because he is just so bloody wired at the moment. Followed Sox up from the field, went to put him in the stable, for whatever reason he pulled back and said no, pulling lead rope out of my hand. I went to bend down and grab it, for some reason changed my mind and just stepped forward to put my foot on it and he just let rip with a hindfoot catching me square on the hip. Thank god I didn't bend down to get it or that might have been my head :( He's always getting loose and I always just grab the rope or step on it to stop him so nothing unusual. Cant believe he actually aimed and kicked me like that. Not like him at all. Not sure why he has had such a personality transplant. He was better behaved when just on 100% box rest.
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