The snow has gone, we now have rain

The snow has more or less disappeared overnight.  It's been raining all night and today we have a mixture of sunshine and showers. It feels so good to see the grass again and I think the horses feel the same.
I gave Anky a good grooming this morning and despite the odd belly ache and stretch, she seems ok and certainly looks much better. I'm trying to wean her off the Alfa A, I think I've said before that we think  she may be intolerant to Alfalfa and the amount of molasses added to the Alfa A here in france is ridiculous.It's a difficult process of elimination and certainly  molasses could cause the gassiness and inflammation in the hind gut and Alfalfa also. if the horse has an intolerance to it.  We've started her on a new feed (several weeks), but she really doesn't like it so it's a struggle. I've decided to go back to her original diet of Lo Cal  feed balancer, corn oil, psyllium ( helps protect and repair the mucosa in the hind gut) and replace the Alfa A with an alfalfa/ molasses free chaff/chop.

I groomed Remy and took him out for some ground work. He was fine, if a little distracted. He's got the halt ,  and he's also got the back now, but if I ask for halt and then move to his shoulder he starts to back, so today we spent some time on asking for halt and then keeping the halt whilst I moved to his shoulder. We then asked for a few steps of walk on and halt with me at his shoulder. He's done nothing for quite a while so I was pleased with him.
I've just come across this. It is an excerpt from a recent article in the Horses for Life Magasine, which has some excellent online articles and adheres to the mostly forgotten notion that the horses' welfare and well being should come first.