our horse, of course! Founder or Laminitis or both or none?

A few posts back I had mentioned our horse-es with ouchy feet. I then mentioned it again in my New Year's post, well, how bout' an update? Dali was actually loping around the pasture yesterday! And a little buck here and there, whoo-hoo! Bombay, on the other hand, not so good. My hubby who studies--digest it--and studies some more, has been studying...hours of studying! You may think I just mean a few hours of searching out information, reading and asking questions. NO, I mean hours, and hours, everyday, morning--noon--night! Talking to Veterinarians, Farriers, reading books, magazines and printouts, online...sometimes 8 pages up at one time!

Maybe I should mention that my hubby does this with everything, be it the Bible, politics, his gunsmithing, reloading, shooting, farming, logging, construction, you name it...even his work, which is non of the above! He loves to try everything, and insist on knowing as much as possible about all he does.

So, back to the horses. Yesterday, out of desperation more than anything, he decided to re-trim Bombay's front feet and put boots on him. Then he put Bombay back on the pasture with Dali...hoping that Dali will move Bombay around a little for some much needed exercise. The less Bombay just stands around the less edema he will have. He has added some selenium and supplements to the horses diet and will keep them on grass hay for awhile...quite awhile as they both need to loose weight...lots of weight! Like 200 to 300 pounds--each!! Yeah, we love our horses to death! Or almost!

.(\__/). Founder or Laminitis or both or none?
.\\\///. We, he still doesn't know. We are just hoping to
..+....+.. save them both and make them ridable again!
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