Just wanted to say that I have been having a hell of a time with an abscess on my Percheron draft mare that just will not give up the fight and get better! I have spent a pretty penny on her hoof and you name it I have done it.
Down the road lives Albert Poe. I have met him a few times, he is very polite and kind, always willing to talk horse and has an easy way about him when he shows me his TB’s he is raising, training, riding and racing. I could stand there and listen to him speak about his exploits, wisdom and stories all day.
Today, thinking that maybe he would know what to do, I drove over to his place and asked if I could speak to him about the abscess Trixi has. He asked what she was, where it is then said let me get my farrier tools and we can go take a look at her. So we went back to our farm and he took a look, widened the hole a bit for me, we found the abscess, then he explained to me what to do to help it, how to get my farrier to shoe her and if he couldn’t do it, Mr. Poe offered to come out and do it for me. We spoke a few more minutes then he left.
It is so nice to have a neighbor who has so much knowledge willing to help a fellow neighbor, come out and to share the knowledge he has. It is also neat to have someone with his history in fox hunting want to share that as well as the history of Virginia too. And his horses…sigh he has a young filly that I would steal in a heartbeat, she is just drop dead beautiful! He now has her half brother and is stood there undecided who I liked the most…
