When we got the mustangs on the first day, we also received a bag full of all sorts of goodies, one of those things was a wormer. We were told to give it to our horses as soon as we could comfortably handle there head. My sister and I agreed that today would be a good day. We were a little concerned that she may try to chew on it like and young animal would. Think about a puppy or even a human baby, they chew on everything and horses are no acceptation. Because I hadn’t given any wormers in a while I caught our POA pony Spud and refreshed my memory by giving him one. After success with Spud I went to take on the challenge of trying to worm Reece. I fully expected a fight, just about every horse I had ever wormed did not like to be willing when they saw the syringe in hand. Much to my surprise she took it willingly, obviously did not like the taste and went to take a big gulp of water right afterwards but she did well.
I praised her and then did some leading practice (which she is now amazing at and tomorrow we will work on haunch/forehand turns.) as well as some other review before my sister handed ma a wet paper towel to dab Recess injured knee with. You may remember that Reece jumped a panel on the first day, obliterated it and got herself a few scrapes. None of the scrapes were very bad, just a little bit of blood on her face but nothing to worry about, once we got her out of the mess of panels and could get a good look at her we saw her right front knee that was very bloody but because we could not touch her at the time we could not tell how bad it was. Once she was comfortable with me touching her I could tell that it was very swollen. First I used the wet paper towel to dab her knee and try to loosen up the dirt around it, then I scratched and inched Reece while Hilary put some antibiotic ointment on it. Now she is doing well and we will continue to keep it as clean as possible.
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