I have just come back from doing a funeral and found Beauty hopping lame, running with sweat and huffing/panting. I had left her rug on because it was looking like rain and I didn’t want her getting soaked whilst I was out. Her rug was all off-centre.
I’ve picked the foot on her bad leg out, just to make sure it wasn’t a stone or anything obvious. There is a little white powderery stuff under the mud, but no stone.
I’ve made her up a small and tasty feed with a sachet of bute in it. I think she has been running around (judging by her sweatiness – she wouldn’t have got that hot just grazing). I am guessing she has strained or misaligned something again. I’m going to call the osteopath and have a chat.
Poor Beauty! She is still really keen to try and get around. I wish she would relax. I think our major problem is the lack of a companion. She has Abbey in the neighbouring field, but Abbey is kept in her stable all night and for much of the day and any day that’s wet, so Beauty spends a lot of time alone and I know she isn’t happy about it. She has me around most of the time (her field comes up to the back of my garden and I look out for her and talk to her a lot), but it isn’t the same. I must try and work out a way for her to have a companion. It’s the only way she is going to be happy and not hurt herself like this.
