The daily routine pretty much consists of bringing her up, and first thing I do is a quick brush off of her back legs and clean her hooves before putting on her BOT quilt wraps. They did awesome things when we used to use them, and I wish I hadn't stopped. They're a must now.
She gets a gourmet dish of electrolytes, B-L pellets, her antihistamine pill (for her seasonal allergies that cause headshaking... WORKING WONDERS!) and some feed to mix it all up in. Because she's out in a pasture, then I have to give it her so I know she gets it and not other ponies. She gets a good grooming (shedding now, finally) and a warm wet towel on her eyes because they're all puffy and drippy with allergies now, much better though than if she wasn't on her pill.
GAWD I'M TURNING INTO ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE.
The wraps stay on for an hour to two hours. I'm working her back up to the six hours or so we used to keep them on. I left them on her in the small pasture for an hour for the first time today, and no problems occurred. They're velcro, so if they get caught, she could easily get of them. One of the big reasons why I chose them over the BOT standing wraps. That and these are more user friendly for when BO put them on overnight. She can do awesome standing wraps, but this makes it so much faster. Also, they go down around the fetlock area. Can't always do that with a standing wrap.
Anyway, they seem to be working. Back On Track = freaking awesome.
Then I do whatever I need to do while she grazes or is turned-out. If there's no activity at the barn and I'm doing something where I can stay close and watch her, she pretty much is allowed to be a lawn-mower. And she comes when called. Seriously, I love how far my pony has come.
Le muscling is le gone. Sigh. Oh, well, at least she hasn't lost weight. Yeah, and I realized after this picture that the wraps were on wrong. They were fixed.
Lol, one of "those " people made me laugh.
ReplyDeleteAnd here I was believing the day would never come.
DeleteWhat allergy medicine is she on? Klein gets a shot of depo-medrol, B 12, and vetalog that clears hers right up. She just gets itchy though, nothing else.
ReplyDeleteShe is just on an anti-histamine pill (cyprophetadine) right now, primarily for her photogenic headshaking caused by trigeminal nerve sensitivities due to seasonal allergies (like hay fever in humans). It works quite well for her, although I was a bad momma and unable to make it out for two days, so I couldn't feed her magic pills. And her eyes got a little puffy and runny again. No where NEAR as bad as what they used to be.
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