15/01/2024
Last week, my boys had their annual vet checks, including teeth and vaccinations. I'm a stickler for keeping on top of everything health wise with the horses. Like with people, prevention is better (and cheaper!) than cure.
It was literally bucketing down with torrential flooding rain here in Melbourne (no joke - this was last Monday, so if you're from Melbourne, you'll know!).
So it was the first time the horses had been inside the barn, so we could be dry (I've only had them at this agistment property a few months, so haven't had time to set up a lot of plans I have). The barn was (is) FULL of junk from the property owner. So I did a mad dash 'dodgy' clean up/ move everything as safely to the sides as I could before bringing the boys inside to desensitise them before the vet came.
They had about 90 minutes tied inside to get used to it.
Tyson (pinto) took 5 minutes to chill (he's that kinda horse).
Dusty (brown) is a sensitive stresshead soul...so he took longer. A LOT longer.
In the past, they've done a lot of training like this when we were training for a big packsaddling trek. So I know they were capable.
And my vet even commented on how super well behaved they were. ❤️ And the sedative for doing their teeth sure helped too.🤣
Would you believe it now: every day I go to check them, they want to go back in the barn?! 🙄 They are such special cherubs. So they now often have a little supervised explorations in the barn while I'm there if we have time.
When my back (which is unfortunately rendering me out of action at the moment) recovers, I have some plans to rearrange and set the barn up better so they can have access. Whoever built the barn was either not horsey or didn't design it to accommodate horses, as for one thing, the doors are not safe to leave open (they dont even fully open 🤔). But I have some ideas to 'Macgyver' it... 😉🐎🐎
