Decided to update...again?

How long has it been? Quite a while, in fact I had forgotten about this little blog completely! Well, I think I will start updating this again.

Nutmeg is well into her third year of life, and she has grown big and strong. She is still as loving and sweet as she was the day I met her.

I'll catch everyone up so you are all up to speed.
Life has been a blur lately, things have gone so fast and a lot has happened. I'll post a little about me after I review what has gone on with the subject of this little blog.

Last summer Nutmeg colicked, and we had to have the vet out to give her banamine and mineral oils. Poor thing, I knew something was wrong the moment I called her out in the pasture and she didn't come thundering up to me. She just wasn't right. Thankfully we got her bowels moving again. The vet seemed to think that it may have been WNV causing it, but because we vaccinate she only felt sick and didn't get any of the neruological side effects, and no long term problems came from it. Poor thing.
Picture below is during her colic episode. She dropped a lot of weight and lost a lot of muscle. You can see how sucked up she is.


I had plans to get Nutmeg ground driving this year after just letting her be a horse for a while. I wanted to keep her busy since I had to sell her buddies due to some unforseen circumstances. She's by herself in the pasture now, and I'm sure she would have loved to have a job. Very willing to learn, but she does have a stubborn streak. I've learned to work around this by asking her to do things, and convincing her that it is a good idea to do them.
We learned to wear a sleazy!

I got as far as getting her used to having a bareback pad, and introduced her to the saddle. She took to it very well and although at first the gave the saddle pad the stink eye, she soon relaxed and allowed me to place it on her back.

The second saddling was great, I have a video of it that I will share. I put the saddle a bit further back than normal because it wasn't a good fit, but it is very light and weighs next to nothing so it was easy for me to lift onto her. She stood like a good girl and gave me no problems. After the filming stopped I sent her around the round pen and she had no bucks or squeals.

So much for plans.
Shortly after this I had decided to buy a surcingle to use with her, but she managed to injure herself. She cut herself pretty well, thankfully it was clean and the vet sutured it back together. Though she had to wear a moon boot for a month and she got very crabby about having her feet handled. I can't blame her, she was sore. She blew a gravel out of the same hoof but the entire time she never took a lame step. Sorry if you find any below picture graphic.



She also learned not to be afraid of plastic bags, best way to learn? Good grass and about 6 layers of plastic bags over your moon boot so it doesn't get wet.

Pulling stitches, boy was that fun. She tried very hard to be good but I'm pretty sure she didn't appreciate the sensation of having me take her stitches out. She needs some work on holding her feet now, this experience has made her a bit touchy about them, but she isn't bad.

Now she is well, seemingly happy and being a horse. However, it is about that time when a young horse needs to learn a thing or two. Seeing as I am 5,000 miles away in England. I can't do it myself. We will see what happens, I think something exciting may be ahead of us.

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