A beautiful day with Happy Feet.

After my post yesterday, Gareth (barefoot trimmer) phoned to say that, if convenient, he would call to trim the horses in the afternoon. He arrived shortly after 1pm and set to work straight away. He was happy with all four, especially Corky who has very flat feet, but is doing much better than we expected. Considering that Corky and Anky only had their shoes removed 7 weeks ago, both are doing well and are already showing improvement. He thinks the two youngsters both have excellent feet and should have very few problems remaining barefoot. So I'm a happy bunny.

This morning was bright and sunny, but with quite a blustery wind. I went for a ride on Corky which I think I enjoyed more than she did. The fact that I turned up with tack for the second day running didn't go down very well. I'm sure she'll get into the routine though, she does make me laugh.
I thought I'd make the most of the wind and take Remy out for a walk. We haven't been out in the wind before and I wanted to see how he'd behave. I took him up through the field to the school, around the school, over the trotting poles and then down the little green lane between our fields. He knows that there's an apple tree there and was quite happy to go check it out.

We have electric fencing on the fields and a couple of days ago we had a short in one of the gateways (the wire is underground, but must have broken somehow).They must have all felt it as they wouldn't go through. It's been really interesting to see how the horses dealt with it after it was fixed.
On the several occasions that they've gone through since, Bonbon has been the first to check it out, very sensibly putting her nose close to the ground to see if she could feel it and then quite calmly walking through. Having watched her , Anky first, followed by Corky, would then canter through quickly. Remy, on the other hand, has just stood and refused to go through, not panicking, but just not willing to risk it. Jim said that there was a large hoof print just over where the wire was broken and perhaps it was Remy who got the worst of the shock, I don't know, perhaps he's just a wuss.

Leading him back to the yard this morning I brought him through the gateway and he was still a little hesitant, but he came through when I asked, I'm fure he'll get over it.

My laptop is back from the repair man after having a new hard drive installed, so now I'm off to re-install all my 'stuff'.