Ink Coming Down from one of His Massive Bucks

As I’m sure you can see Ink was feeling pretty good yesterday! 

It was very warm, in the high 90’s.  I checked Ink’s leg and the swelling has gone down a lot since yesterday and is almost gone.  The heat too, is almost gone.  Still a little warm in the spot where it looks like he was stung.  I’m going to give him the rest of the week off, maybe start back up with the usual-ish lunging routine on Sunday.  Besides it being very warm, I didn’t want to do much, but it didn’t phase Ink from being a show-off and flirting with the mares..  I lunged Errika for about 10 minutes and then had Matt lunge Ink for a little bit to see how he was moving. 

Afterwards we took the horses to the wash rack to get a cool hosing.  For the rest of the time we let them dry, relax, groomed them, braided their tails and then gave them their grain.  Errika is looking a little plump lately so we’re taking her off the beet pulp that we had her on during the winter to maintain and gain some more weight since the surgery.  Don’t need it anymore, little chubby mare. 

Ink gets turn-out gear during the summer.  He gets sores on the front of his his lower leg so the BO told us to put the soft bell boots on upside down to protect that area.  Then I put his hind sport boots on because he keeps knicking himself with his shoes.  The flies are coming out more and more, so I’m bringing over the fly masks and then we have to order the ubber fly sheets.  They come complete with belly band, generous tail over and neck cover.