Prado update

[Horseaholic]

If you didn't catch my "issues" from my previous thread you can find those here - http://www.baywindfarm.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13189

Things are kind of settling down. I am bombarded with school (finals) trying to get A's in all of my classes (which isn't happening) AND my new job.
I barely have time to sit down and take a deep breath, let alone ride my horse. :(

He has been moved to a place I didn't originally want to take him but they accept cribbers and is close to my parents house (about 10 minutes away from my home). I had to get him out of the family friends pasture because it was just never ending with comments swept in between the lines...he BARELY cribbed there with his cribbing collar nice and loose because he was in a very lush pasture which I was THRILLED about :). I am sooo thankful for these people allowing me to keep him there for 10 days while I figured things out in a pinch. It was very nice of her but horse people are just crazy ;).

At the new place, he's in a pasture with 2 other chesnuts who beat the crap out of him :( He's got at least 5 bites on him and has a chunk of hair missing from a kick. His cribbing collar is tighter than ever and he has a HUGE sore on his neck from it. I'm just so exhuasted mentally and physically. They do feed him alone and a huge perk is that he gets to graze/roam the entire property (at least 20 acres) in the morning with the entire heard and he does have friends outside of his paddock. He is basically on a dry lot...which I'm not crazy about but he will get a round bale during the winter. He is putting weight on and we rode today for the first time in weeks! He was great, considering they started feeding early as I was mounting him.

We are looking for a property to purchase (or lease to own) so we can be sure that he is getting the best care possible by the people who love him the most! :) I just keep telling myself that this place is only temporary and things are only going to get better!!

Here are two pictures from today.

[Equine_Woman]

Hang in there!! You might want to look into cribbing collar wraps. I know we've wrapped all the old cribbers collars with sheepskin to stop the sores. Any sort of debris that gets in there just causes sores that won't go away. They sell pre cut sets for most collars and they work!

And you are right, most horse people have crazy in them just under the surface. . . lol

[Remali]

He looks so good, he sure is a handsome horse, I always had a thing for those pretty chestnuts!

Good advice from EW about the cribbing collar wrap, and I sure do hope you can get your own place....
hopefully the two other horses will stop picking on him, I know how frustrating that gets.

[Horseaholic]

Thanks EW I'm going to pick up one of those fleece covers tomorrow. :)

Remali- thank you..I've always loved chesnuts too. To think when I first started riding him I wasn't crazy about how he looked but now I think he's the most beautiful horse out there. :)

[JackieB]

Good luck getting things finally settled. It will all be worth it.

[Fork]

Fingers crossed! Hang in there. It definitely will get better. Lucky you looking at horsey properties. I tried so hard, but my parents ended up getting an acre and a half. The house is smack in the middle, too. :(

I'm excited to hear updates. Super glad he's out of his old place!

[Tiz]

What is there to crib on out in the pasture? Those collars only work when they're tight as heck. They're awful. I'd rather let him crib, or get him in an enclosure with nothing to grab onto.

[Horseaholic]

What is there to crib on out in the pasture? Those collars only work when they're tight as heck. They're awful. I'd rather let him crib, or get him in an enclosure with nothing to grab onto.

he'll crib on the fence. :( My barn manager keeps saying "He's gonna colic and die!" :innocent: She keeps asking me if I've read up on cribbing and I have...during my reading I found that colic in cribbers (due to cribbing) is not as common as everyone makes it out to be and that recently, a study showed that it's actually false. Prado will not crib ALL DAY LONG. I could understand if he would crib all day long he'll just crib when he gets bored or wants attention...

When he's with me the cribbing collar will come off immediately and his paddock will be hot wired :)

[WashingtonBay]

I'm confused.... he gets 20 acres of turnout, then why the drylot part? The part about getting beat up.... Some scrapes are part of being turned out in a herd, but it should settle down with time.

I hope you can get the collar where it doesn't rub. It shouldn't make sores. Sores might be hard to heal though, as long as it's on. Not sure on the solution to that.

Tiz.... unfortunately, there is always something to grab onto.

[Horseaholic]

He only gets to graze in the morning..they are let out of their paddocks and the front gate is locked. He doesn't get beat up in the heard :( He only gets beat up by the two bullys he's in the smaller paddock with. The paddocks are just entirely over grazed :/ I did hear her talking about seed yesterday so I've got hopes!! lol Idk how well it will grow with horses on it constantly but who knows.

There is just no place like home right?

[Equine_Woman]

Yeah the electric fence will be Mr. Prado's nicarette! I hope you can find somewhere soon for your sanity!!

[WashingtonBay]

Well, I hope the conflicts with horses settle down. I have more hope of that than I do horse people becoming less crazy ;)

[Horseaholic]

lololol ME TOO!

[Tiz]

"Yeah the electric fence will be Mr. Prado's nicarette!"

We have a mare who is 19 now. She can be turned out for months, with nothing to bear down on, and the minute her environment includes a proper cribbing object, she's on it. It's really an incredible addiction.

The colic thing is a myth, and some horses don't crib much when they're on pasture. The only tangible result is if they're cribbing, they aren't eating, and they could be hard to maintain in good flesh. They wear their teeth, too.

Still, I prefer those problems to cribbing collars.

[JennyandJosey]

At my old barn the BO's mare was a terrible cribber. They had her in the pasture and she cribbed on everything she could get her mouth on. She started to lose weight and they didn't notice until she was really ribby. (part of the reason I left was lack of horsemanship skills). Well, turns out she had wore her teeth down so far she couldn't eat anymore. They brought her in and fed her different and she did put weight back on.