This little video also features a handy ‘how to set a corral up’ and the equipment you need for any newbies thinking of doing an overnight stop with their horse. Would be cool to hear how other people like to set up their corrals. I’d highly recommend setting up a corral and practicing at home too before you do it at an event.
I like to have the corner posts facing out so the foot pedal is facing in as that’s the direction the strain of the tape pulls, so they’re less likely to bend over and then the middle posts facing in so if a horse pushes on it for some reason it’s more likely to hold.
I have a pet hate about water buckets, I hate to see them in corners, dark corners of stables, corners in fields or in a corral. I think putting your head in a corner can’t be very nice and seeing as horses are prey animals I would have thought they’d prefer to drink somewhere with a decent view of the surroundings and away from scary stuff. Is this just me? Anyone else out there feel the same?
Azid is doing surprisingly well and is pretty happy in himself, each time the vet comes, which is every 4 days, he’s having to have more of the flap cut back because it’s healing too quickly and the skin won’t attach, this means we keep cutting through arteries and blood goes EVRYWHERE, we had so much the other day we actually scooped it up with a pooper scoop! Then we have to wait for it to clot before applying another bandage, it does make it look horrendous every time and you think you’re going backwards but long term this will hopefully mean less scar tissue and the skin will close up quicker. Azid is being very well behaved for everything but he always gets runny eyes when he’s sedated which makes him look like he’s crying as the vet chops bit off him, you can imagine that makes you feel very sorry for him and is a little bit heartbreaking to see. It’s just runny eyes though, horses don’t cry right?
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