Thought you might like to see some pictures of Maggie, now thankfully almost recovered from concussion laminitis, sharing the nursery paddock for a couple of hours with The Chubs.
One of these, the ridiculously named Wee Lass (not by us) is the heifer Jon womanfully groomed out last week. She's making her first appearance for us at Devon County in the show ring (Thurs 18th if anyone's interested!).
She's the one on the right...
Maggie and WL have adjoining boxes and Maggie has grown very attached to her, as she's been stood in for six week recovering from laminitis. The clinical signs showed about four weeks after I bought her - they sadly had grossly overfed her last year when she was showing, stopped riding her last September and she she was just carrying far too much condition. She was perfectly sound when I bought her and for three weeks afterwards but the combo of starting work and having so much weight on her forehand was a bad one and so the poor horse has had to have a strict diet, was stood on a deep bed of shavings for four weeks, has been switched to anti-laminitic diet supplements and, all-in-all, must have thought she'd been sent to horse-borstal... ! She'll never be out at grass full time again here - our grass is too lush and rich and it would kill her. Hence why she's sharing the 1/4 acre Nursery paddock with the four Belgian Blue lumps, as I'm betting on them keeping it like a dust paddock soon...
Wee Lass on the left, then Wren and - The Beast !
"Y'know - her bum does look big in that...."
This is our first Belgian Blue - Licence au Fond du Bois - better known as Liss
One of these, the ridiculously named Wee Lass (not by us) is the heifer Jon womanfully groomed out last week. She's making her first appearance for us at Devon County in the show ring (Thurs 18th if anyone's interested!).
She's the one on the right...
Maggie and WL have adjoining boxes and Maggie has grown very attached to her, as she's been stood in for six week recovering from laminitis. The clinical signs showed about four weeks after I bought her - they sadly had grossly overfed her last year when she was showing, stopped riding her last September and she she was just carrying far too much condition. She was perfectly sound when I bought her and for three weeks afterwards but the combo of starting work and having so much weight on her forehand was a bad one and so the poor horse has had to have a strict diet, was stood on a deep bed of shavings for four weeks, has been switched to anti-laminitic diet supplements and, all-in-all, must have thought she'd been sent to horse-borstal... ! She'll never be out at grass full time again here - our grass is too lush and rich and it would kill her. Hence why she's sharing the 1/4 acre Nursery paddock with the four Belgian Blue lumps, as I'm betting on them keeping it like a dust paddock soon...
Wee Lass on the left, then Wren and - The Beast !
"Y'know - her bum does look big in that...."
This is our first Belgian Blue - Licence au Fond du Bois - better known as Liss
They will lead the lives of lotus-eaters, being shampooed, groomed and trimmed, their tail hairs fluffed, and their hooves oiled, for shows only. The occasional baby may issue forth, but not one ickle bit of those amazing backsides will ever grace a plate.
