Thank you everyone for the welcomes! It feels good to be back.:lol:
I was NOT :evil: a happy camper when I got to the barn this morning. The horses were IN, the stalls were deplorable, they were covered in flies....the list goes on!
Jay was NOT the horse I left! He was spooky and jittery. I walked in to grab his bucket as he ate his grain...which he usually eats with vigor, today it was normal, and he about jumped out of his skin. My DM even saw his reaction and looked at me:shock:. I said, this is not the Jay I left......:twisted:
I took him out to brush him and he again was dancing all over the place, didn't seem to like me brushing him....ears would go back, flinch....NOT him at all! He never moves a muscle when I brush him.
M's DH came out and said he chewed the door frame pretty good...I went to see. I said, there was no reason to leave them in at night. (as I found out he did.) He said..."I didn't know....and with Jay's foot, I wasn't sure. It'll be OK, kept his foot dry." Well...not really b/c standing in poo
is worse than wet ground, and he was standing in lots of poo!
Well...first of all....you live here and see the horses are NEVER kept in the stalls at night during the summer. He gives them a teeny bit of hay prior to me arriving EVERYDAY. He DOES know....:evil:
So that makes me wonder...how long were they in the stalls that Jay would become that bored and chew the door frame? He is NOT a chewer!:evil:
I highly suspect when M's DH found the chewed spot he ranted and raved,
screamed, cursed, flapped his arms at Jay, if not hit him. The dude has anger issues and I've seen him in action with the goats. My Jay does not need to be yelled at...he is quite sensitive, and a little growl does the trick.
I approached my DM about it...and she can clearly see what I see in all respects. I don't want to be a trouble maker, and I don't need to come btw them....but I told her, if I go away with her again...he WON'T take care of my horses again if I can help it!
Rainn....has lost patches of hair on her shoulder, underbelly and bum. This
tells me they were never fly spayed. My other evidence is that there was very little spray used in the bottle ( I had just filled it up for him.) She scratches herself crazy bald when bitten with flies.:-
-( It is also quite evident that she has dropped weight....maybe the lack of pasture at night. There seems to be more grain left in the barrels than I anticipated coming back to.....
She also has a mark on her back fetlock and it's swollen, and he has a mark
on his coronet band...they could have been messing around and did it to each other of course, and could have done it while I was home or not....but still.
It took me two stall cleanings to calm down. I was livid!!!
I sat with them a bit in the pasture, and we allowed them in a new pasture for some fresh green grass. When the time was up, Rainn allowed me to take her under the chin and guide her back to the old pasture....Jay and I had to do the dominant dance....just so very briefly....but he then too allowed me to take him under the chin and guide him ever so gently to the old pasture.
Atta boy!:thumbsup: (they only had their fly masks on)
All in all, I believe they are happy I am home. I sprayed them real good, and put the fly masks on them. I think they were thankful for both those things.:lol:
Obviously I didn't ride. I was
way to upset. I may take them for a walk tonight. We'll work on some ground things, get the repsect thing going again so we can have a nice quiet ride tomorrow morning...I hope.:wink:
Thanks for listening to my rant.