A weight off my mind

The ponies were weighed on Wednesday.  Buttons is 163Kg and Honey is 161Kg.  Both perfect and condition scored at a 3.  They both walked straight onto the weigh bridge and seemed to enjoy the whole thing, although that pair enjoy anything really.  It was a feed rep from Dengie who came up.  We got £5.00 vouchers off bags of Hi Fi lite, which was good as I already use it.  It's really good to know their exact weights as we weighed them with the feed reps weigh tape and my own weigh tape and both gave different weights.  The endless soaking haynets, weighing hay etc has all been worth it.  I have another surprise in store for Buttons, but I will write about that another time.

Buttons is back to untieing things, his choice at the moment is haynets.  Tonight I went into their stable to find the pair of them in the small part of the stable with both haynets on the ground and they were busy emptying the hay out the top of them.  Honeys net had been tied up at the far side of the big part of the stable, so I can only guess that he's untied her net and dragged it into his part of the stable.  The door inside the stable is always tied open so they can choose where they want to go.  Buttons seems to like being in the smaller part of the stable but he comes out to go to the toilet in Honey's part of the stable and then goes back to his nice clean room!  He never fails to make me laugh.

  

And the gold medal goes to...............Buttons Brownlie!

The Vet was up during the week to vaccinate Wolfie, Buttons and Honey.  The Vet was super impressed with Buttons' weight, said he was absolutely spot on and looked fantastic.  He kept calling him a little smasher. 

He is very athletic considering how short his legs are and how low his centre of gravity is


Although I think Buttons' sees himself looking more like this....



Buttons is looking better than he ever has.  His feet are fantastic at the moment.  He was trimmed last Wednesday and there was quite a lot of growth taken off.  For the first time ever he is actively walking over stones and hard ground comfortably.  

Honey was good for the vet.  She was also trimmed on Wednesday.  Her feet are continuing to improve, however she is going through a difficult stage at the moment with laminitic lines growing out and some separation of the white line.  She has quite a substantial hole at the outside wall of the near fore.  I can only keep it clean and hope that no dirt or grit gets in there that could cause an abcess.  We'll get through this too, it will just take a little time and growth.  Her frogs are much healthier and actually now look like frogs and are starting to be able to do their job.  When she first arrived they were completely atrophied and totally functionless due to the shape of her feet.

Here's a video of  little Honey pear the other night asking me to stop standing videoing and go and get her tea.  If you watch with the sound on, you will hear her polite noises.  And pawing the ground, I wonder who she picked that up from.....hmmm Buttons.  She copies a lot of things he does, you can see her trying them out to see if it gets the desired reaction.  She is really very cute.