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Spring means DLB!

Except this year spring also meant abscess, so... no DLB for me. Other people will be play dressage clinic, but I will not. *sigh*

I signed up early and got my paperwork and my check in and everything but Birb had other ideas, so...

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Hoof abscess again. Ugh.

Thursday last week was lesson, so I didn't see Bird. Friday after work he was head-bobbing lame again. So back to daily soaks for the foot. There is some drama, but not tons. And I bring extra warm epsom salts water, so if there is spillage, well, fine. He looked slightly less limpy by Sunday night, but still too limpy to ride. I think he knows we signed up for two days of DLB clinic.

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Throw a bucket at that hoof abscess, why don't you?

Mostly Bird is as healthy as, well, you know. But sometimes, he is not. He blew a hoof abscess on Friday last (having not at all been lame prior to, so this came out of nowhere) and spent Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday on Injured Reserve.

( Hoof abscess? Send in the bucket brigade! )