Your Holiday Is Over, DJ!
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 05:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
debris4spikeYes, sorry boy - but I returned!
When I spoke to Toni on Monday and said I couldn't get out for a couple of days, she said he would enjoy his extended holiday! In fact he had put weight back on again as all he had done was eat! So in the end he actually had a fortnight off!!
When I saw him today it was a shock to the system - for me! As I had forgotten to wear gloves and it was cold. I tried working out if I could open a gate and turn off the electric fencer with my hands still in my pockets! Sadly, I couldn't!
Anyway, poor DJ had to come in - 2 weeks of eating and he had to walk all the way to his stable! Poor boy - he didn't know it but he wasn't actually going to have to work today as I didn't actually have time to ride. So he had his feet checked, his mane combed and his coat brushed before being fed and back out to his field.
Not really a bad day for the first day back after a holiday ... I had a load of washing and ironing to do as well as extra patients needing treatment. Life is definitely tuned in DJ's favour I think!
When I spoke to Toni on Monday and said I couldn't get out for a couple of days, she said he would enjoy his extended holiday! In fact he had put weight back on again as all he had done was eat! So in the end he actually had a fortnight off!!
When I saw him today it was a shock to the system - for me! As I had forgotten to wear gloves and it was cold. I tried working out if I could open a gate and turn off the electric fencer with my hands still in my pockets! Sadly, I couldn't!
Anyway, poor DJ had to come in - 2 weeks of eating and he had to walk all the way to his stable! Poor boy - he didn't know it but he wasn't actually going to have to work today as I didn't actually have time to ride. So he had his feet checked, his mane combed and his coat brushed before being fed and back out to his field.
Not really a bad day for the first day back after a holiday ... I had a load of washing and ironing to do as well as extra patients needing treatment. Life is definitely tuned in DJ's favour I think!
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Date: 2007-10-24 04:47 pm (UTC)Glad DJ had a good holiday too
and those electric fences can give you quite a jolt!
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Date: 2007-10-24 06:19 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-10-24 05:32 pm (UTC)But... but... but he told me that Guinness and Mexican crisps are good for horses!
Seriously, he did now.
He told me that the Guinness would give his mane a nice shine and that the Mexican crisps were roughage and beneficial to a horses digestion.
Now I, of course knowing nothing about horses, believed him. Don't I feel the fool right about now?
hahaha
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Date: 2007-10-24 06:23 pm (UTC)In actual fact it was the crisps that were the problem - Guiness IS good for them - although he normally only has one can at Christmas!
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Date: 2007-10-24 07:47 pm (UTC)One can at Christmas my eye... he put 'em away like he was a fullback or somethin'... drank most of the case... I think I only got one or two...
::speaks up::
I mean, Oh really?
I didn't know it was good for them.
That's interesting.
hehehe
Really though, I didn't know it was good for them. Why is it good for them?
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Date: 2007-10-24 08:37 pm (UTC)As to Guiness - don't know! We had an elderly Shetland Pony on the yard who had a stroke and that winter she had a 1/4 of a tin on her meal every night - 2 years on and she is still alive.
It is a good source of Vit B and iron ... but is a standard pressie for a horse! My Jaykub loved it - DJ isn't too fussed. But once at a Christmas ride I was standing holding Jaykub with a glass of sherry in my hands ... well until Jaykub's tonge worked out how to empty the glass!!
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Date: 2007-10-24 08:51 pm (UTC)Hmmm... Vit B and iron.
I feel better about having a pint now and again :-D
And awww I'm glad it helped the Shetland Pony. Maybe it calms their nerves a little too, if they're nervous.
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Date: 2007-10-24 09:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-25 11:35 pm (UTC)Good to see you back, I hope you enjoyed your trip away. *hugs*
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Date: 2007-10-26 12:33 pm (UTC)Thanks for the hugs - report next week! Sending hugs back - hope that you are beginning to remember the laughs Clippy gave you!