Farrier visit

Yes I am sad and my horses have matching headcollars!

So, as if getting the vet out to the horses wasn't bad enough, today it was hoof trim time!

Simon was not too well today, so spend most of the day sleeping. That was fine as the farrier was not due until 4pm. Then he phones me at 1.40pm to say he can be with me in 40 minutes if I wanted! So I managed to pursuade/drag Simon out of bed to run me up to the field, then he went back home while I got headcollars on the horses and picked out their hooves while waiting.

Amber was done first and was good, apart from a couple of leg-waving moments. She was falling asleep towards the end. Blossom was watching and snorting, as if she had never seen our farrier before! When I got her out of the field to be done, she was spooking at the farrier (as she does every time), but she settled and he got her front one, then her back one done. When he went to do her other front hoof, she started spooking again. Silly pony!

Finally there were all done and I booked the farrier again for 8 weeks time.

I then fed Amber and did some in-hand work with Blossom while she was eating (otherwise Blossom irritates Amber by trying to pinch her food). We walked round the field and as I hadn't poo-picked, the piles were useful obsticales to negotiate round so we could stop between two, aim to walk left or right od one, do bending round some etc. At first she was a bit reluctant to want to flex, but by the end of the session, she was doing a lot better and had relaxed. My aim is to do this every day if possible for the next couple of weeks, then I can start to intoduce long-reining and eventually lunging.