Congratulations Dewey. The picture is awesome!
Welcome back Tarheel. Sorry you’ve been feeling so lousy and so busy. Enjoy your ride and horsey scent (I totally get that addiction)
Opus glad ride number 2 went well too. Hope it continues to work well.
Between work and the nasty weather I haven’t been out to the barn much. Another night shift tonight so not much hope for tomorrow either 
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In the meantime, here’s a pic of me and Sky:
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Oh, she is soooooooooooo pretty! Congrats, Dewey!
Thanks, everyone, for your congratulations and for admiring my new mare! I’m still pinching myself!
I’m happy to see the new folks, wishing “get well” to those under the weather, and feeling good about Opus’s new guy!
I am going away for the weekend so will probably not post for the next few days.
I do have to confess that I have fallen off the wagon with exercising. I have only exercised once over the past two weeks! I am hoping that now that the killer search committee I was on at work has finished its job (assuming we make the new hires) and my stress over the mare is over with, that I will get back to my routine, but I need everyone’s support in this!
Congrats Dewey!!!
Beautiful Dewey!!
Opus1 - I know what you mean about on the bit, For me too it was stange at first… when you are used not touching the mouth! Now it is the goal!
Hang in there all of you under the weather!
Hunter/Jumper for Haflinger is 3.3% times the value (I am using $ 5,000) for this quote equals $ 165.00 annual for the basic policy.
If you wish to add major medical, the premium is:
· $ 275 will purchase $ 7.500 limit with a $ 300.00 deductible Total premium would be $ 440.00 total
Hope that helps. So basically from what I understand the premium for mortality is about 3% of declared value. I’m going to look into a few agencies and see which one my trainer uses as well.
The reason I’ve never used it before is I figured it would be more costly to have the insurance than it would for the procedure (or death). However, now having more knowledge of how pricey vet procedures are, I think its worth having. Colic surgery around here can run you close to 10k! When Dublin had his sinus infection, his simple surgery would have been more than
2k!
Dewey- congrats on your new mare, great picture!
Opus1- your new horse sounds really nice and the lease options at first sound like a great way to make sure he is the one
ST- glad you are on the mend
Last week was a write-off for me between bad weather, migraines and food poisoning(?). Lesson was rained out this week but I rode last night after work. So, after not riding for 1 1/2 weeks, I decided to work over caveletti figure-eight without stirrups. And… I did it trotting. Did not fall off and I can walk this AM. Did a bit of canter and trotted a few crossrails, all riding like… well an adult who hasn’t ridden in 1 1/2 weeks. Horsie is off to do his thing at the ISHA regionals tomorrow (flat only) and now the weather is turning bad again. Glad I got a ride in while I could.
HazelG- I thought what you said was very well thought out and made good points.
I had the chance before Christmas to pick a very nice young mare up for almost no money. I could afford the purchase, but not everything else, so I had to pass. Great deal for someone.
We had the insurance discussion at our barn recently. One of my friends was wondering if she should keep up the insurance on her horse (basically just a pleasure horse at this point) and our trainer said that she should drop the insurance if she was comfortable with either a) paying $10K on the spot for colic surgery or b) telling the vet her horse wasn’t a surgical candidate and to put him down. If she couldn’t/wouldn’t do one of those two things… keep the insurance.
Congrats Dewey! If you’re happy that’s what matters 
Congratulations Dewey! Lovely horse, I’m sure you’ll have lots of fun together.
I can’t emphasize enough…GET INSURANCE! I bought my pony 5 years ago, and the trainer hounded me mercilessly about getting insurance. The pony had no great “replacement” value to anyone but me, as she is of no particular breeding, and I do not show her. My first premium was about $500, paid in full up front. A couple of years later, shortly after I’d paid that measly $500 premium, the pony colicked and had to go to Tufts for suregery. Surgery was followed by an infection and 30 days at the clinic. Needless to say, without insurance, I could not have afforded the bill and would have been forced to put her down!
Quite simply, if you’re not prepared to put your horse down, rather than go deeply in debt, you must have insurance.
If you’re leasing, talk with an agent. Typically, you can’t insure what you don’t own, so the owner would have to purchase the insurance, and build that cost into the lease for you.
Trying to catch up here! Work has been nuts.
So JJ was SO MUCH better for a week after the saddle fitter came out. And then on Monday started to turn back into Bucky McBuckerson. BIG SIGH. I don’t know what to do with him. He has also developed a strange curiosity/anger for one of the ponies at our barn. LOL.
Has anyone tried the Herm Sprenger Duo snaffle bit? I’m thinking of changing things up on him and buying it. It’s awfully expensive for a bit, but I’m willing to try it to see if more tongue room and better rubber/plastic make him hapier. He’s in a happy mouth double-jointed loose ring now with a roller.
Hello ladies and gentlewomen (oh, and if there are guys here now hello to them too)…I…once again, am back.
Pony and I are now both healthy at once (knock wood) and I’ve got more help with the business, so we’re starting to work again. We love the new facility, pony has gotten FA-AT (which is a good thing, he was a skinny boy), and are trying to just get back into the swing of things.
Sounds like so much has happened since I was here last…wishing good thoughts to those who are not so well, and congratulations to all of those who have made such great strides (and purchased/leased or otherwise procured new ponies!!)
PH don’t shoot me but…would you consider an animal communicator and asking him what’s wrong? You hear interesting stories, who knows? If you are at your wits end, maybe it’s worth a try?
Hinderella, how is her coverage now that she has had a colic? Did it go up? I was worried that my pony would be excluded because of his colic (non-surgical).
Hi, folks!
Mr. Stall Rest had shockwave treatment #3 today. He has another five days of stall rest, and then the vet wants to check him Wednesday and see him trot quietly on the lunge line. I’m thinking heavy drugs may be in order to accomplish this. If he trots sound, he gets to start tack walking for a while before being allowed any turnout.
I’m thinking of getting his animal communicator (who did shed a lot of light on his injury) to “talk” to him about how important it is not to do anything explosive or stupid as he starts rehab.
For anyone in the South experiencing bad weather, please stay safe!
Wow pony, so soon! I can feel your anticipation/anxiety/worry/excitement!
Lucky’s headed to my trainer’s on Sunday, I am so stoked. She was kind enough to lend me her truck and trailer so I can get him. So nice of her. Its going to be a long day though. 40 min to get the truck and trailer, 40 min home. 40 min back. 40 min home. Yikes!
Tornado just hit my trainer’s farm in Paulding County, Georgia. All people, equine and canines are OK, thank God. But parts of the barn roof were ripped off, as well as one of the huge, heavy barn doors right by my horse’s stall (he is on the end). Two big trees uprooted, and lots of fencing damage.
I am shaking, I can’t believe my human friends at the farm and my horse (hell, all the horses there) were so close to being harmed by this.
I never thought I’d say this, but I miss hurricanes. At least you can evacuate for those. These tornados scare the poo out of me.
Dewey – hope all is OK in the southern part of the state for you.
I spent most of the afternoon with my class (I’m a teacher) in the basement of our school. I have to admit that while I was very concerned about my class as well as family members, my mind was also very much on my horse! We were lucky - there were tornado warnings to our south, west, and north, but nothing on top of us (Cincinnati here). Lots of reports of damage, even some deaths. It’s been a scary afternoon, I have to admit.
Hope everyone out there is okay tonight!
OMG, Tarheel! So sorry to hear about your trainer’s farm! Hope everyone was OK!!
I am out of town–flew out last night to CT for a long-planned family event. I heard Georgia was under a storm watch, but I wasn’t overly concerned. I knew my dog would be terrified, and I was a bit worried about him (he’s old), but he’s under the care of a dog-sitter he knows well. I am going to text her right now.
I have been listening for news about the storm…so far it sounds as if south Georgia was spared. Opus…?
Hope all our re-riders are safe! Sounds as if tornadoes hit hard last night in several areas of the country!
Glad everything was ok, Tarheel. Rebuilding will be hard too. I wouldn’t wish a tornado on anyone. No damage in my city, but towns/cities to the north and to the south had damage. No confirmed tornadoes, but lots of heavy winds and some hail.
Now we have a cold snap, with significant temperature drops from yesterday, so we’re all on colic watch.
Stay safe!
Tornados are terribly frightening, I hope everyone and all their critters are OK. As Tarheel said, at least with hurricanes and snowstorms one can prepare or evacuate.
OGP, my pony is not currently covered for colic. It became an exclusion on her coverage after the surgery. But her surgery was in 2009, and I think I may be able to insure her for colic again this year. I keep the insurance for all the other things that can go wrong.
I really can’t blame the insurer for the exclusion though. Between the original surgery, the infection and the aftercare, I completely maxed out the coverage…something like $14,000.
Fortunately(knocking wood furiously), all has been well with the pony since then.
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