Double Day.

Two posts, one day! Well today was a very big day for Vesta. Ever since I picked her up from the BLM I wanted her feet trimmed. They had always bugged me, so that was one of the first things I wanted to work on. After a week or two from picking up her feet we finally scheduled a feet trimming time.

First of all, I'd like to thank Mr. Jeb Beck out at the BLM for taking time to come out and trim her after not trimming a horse normally for years. For her first trim Vesta did relatively well. She picked up all of her feet nicely and allowed three of them to be trimmed. She did very well on her front feet and well on the start of her back left foot. She was sore on the back feet and that was apparent, after some work on her left foot she wanted no part in getting the other trimmed. Deciding not to push it and end on a positive note, we left the right hind foot long. Granted this is not what I would have preferred, but I agree with the decision because she was getting quite frustrated. She is going to be sore because as Jeb said, her hooves were so stacked that everything wasn't quite right, so standing normally on her heel stretches out all of her tendons. Hopefully next week after I work with her and picking up her feet more we can get that last hoof taken care of. They look so much better! Pictures tomorrow.

The second first of the day was worming. We asked Jeb about her weight and he said she was a little skinny for a typical yearling, he also said that this may be due to her being a little wormy. She hadn't been wormed for 6 or more months so we figured he was right. I also learned that her middle may not be shaded out because of worms, I thought that was interesting and pretty darn cool. We went to Walmart and bought enough Strongid wormer for all of our horses. We also bought probiotics which Jeb said would help with her poop eating and stress. After dinner, my dad and I went out to worm the horses. I was expecting Vesta to be a bit of a handful but low and behold she was perfect. She didn't toss her head or spit any out, shoot she didn't even need a halter. This was definitely a surprise. Overall, this little mustang has been through a lot today!

P.S. Yesterday I was able to get her to back up, lead beside me, and walk over a tarp! Like I said, pictures soon!