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2025-05-02 09:30 am
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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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2020-06-08 08:31 am
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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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2020-06-03 08:45 am
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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! )