This is how I imagine our horses will look. I am campaigning for the new one (who as yet has no stable name) to be called Corbett, but the committee seems to prefer Jimi Hayrix. Jimi Corbett? Jimi seems appropriate for a Scottish horse, but then so does Corbett.

Oh get a grip!

I blame Ben. Are you listening, Ben? :p I know we didn’t actually specify at the time, but we had hoped that the horse we got to keep Toffee company could be left alone. For a few minutes, at least. It seems this is not the case with the lovely Fraser. His leg is healing well, and the vet said it is not necessary to keep him still so much now. So, Nina thought she’d take Toffee for a walk on Saturday evening. She scrambled on bareback (saddle is away being re-flocked) and headed out of the yard towards the field. Now bearing in mind that Toffee was never actually out of Fraser’s sight, in the ten minutes she was not actually in our field with him he did two poos, whinnied constantly and broke out in sweat. His eyes were on stalks and every single vein was standing out. Obviously, we can’t have our lovely boy so stressed (it is getting worse, and a whole month in the field together will not have helped), so we looked at our options. Calmer – not sure how this would affect him, or whether it would be effective enough. Never separating – not really practical. A third horse – not enough space, money or time. So, what did we decide on…?































Eeeeeeeek!!


I have no idea if this will do the trick...watch this space. I am slightly scared of miniature Shetlands. Actually, quite scared. A horse, yet not a horse. Something the size of a dog that can kick and bite. More info to follow, including an account of Fraser's reaction to the newcomer.

Latest two dressings and some mud

13th July 2009

Guess who ran out of Treatplast and had to improvise...

10th July

Hurrah!

Ben was right! He said the wound looked as if it was healing, and the vet came again this morning and confirmed it. Got to change the dressing every three days, stop him running around until it's healed (so Toffee has to stay put), and probably have to have it trimmed if the flesh becomes proud. But no ex-rays - yay! :D

Photos from Nina's mobile

Today was dressing change day. The wound doesn’t look any worse, but certainly not any better either. Not healing in any visible way. The bandage is the same six layers as the vet put on, but nothing like as neat! If anyone can spot any glaring errors, please tell me… Am beginning to think x-rays are inevitable.

Even bigger bandage!

Yesterday morning, Fraser's fly rug arrived. As Mac is on holiday this week, and we were at home, we decided we might as well bring Fraser in and see if it fitted, what with it being so hot. Anyway, having brought him in to the yard it was apparent he had been bothering the dressing on his cut, and had dislodged it and made the cut bleed. On taking the dressing off, the wound had clearly opened up and looked pretty grim. Vet came in the afternoon (Clare - hurrah!)and says it is quite possibly a sequestrum (bone chip), and if another strong course of antibiotics doesn't clear it up and he doesn't start healing properly, he'll have to go in to the clinic for x-rays and probable surgery. He has quite a tight dressing on to try and pull the sides together. (Both the vet and I managed to dress his leg without sedating him, which was nice.)The new fly rug fits ok, and he seems to feel a bit cooler today.