Started a post last night and did the infamous hitting of the wrong key and lost it. So here goes again -
Chanda -yes, vet and I talked about West Nile. No she hasn't been tested for either that or Lymes disease and we are discussing it. While some of the issues match up to part of each of them, none is really all there..(??). We are now into November and not sure yet what I'm going to do on the testing front.
Have run out of the stomach soother (other than Alfalfa) and want to get some more. Going tomorrow to the feed store.
Farrier was out again on 21 October and Kechi was trimmed again. Again noted the red "crumbles" between the separated white line and the rest of her sole - but happy with the growth and how it looks and the fact that she doesn't appear to be sore. Took pics this time of the front hooves, not the rear. Will be attaching pics. I did get some as well that show how her hips look and you can sorta see the "drop" in the left one. Cat (farrier) pointed out that it might not be a "drop" on the left, but where the right has been "jammed up" - again possibly by running/chasing that she had received when harassed by the other mares - both right before foaling and also later - which I feel partially caused this whole episode.
She is NOW on turnout, and we have switched around the way these girls are grouped. She did get into a fight as one of the OTHER younger mares (bottom of the herd previously but willing to try to put Kechi at the bottom not that she can) and they both stopped/left off before appearing to injure each others' legs (kicking butt to butt). They aren't accepting her, she hasn't "buddied up" with anyone, but she is doing better. She gets fed a light breakfast in the AM, then turned loose. In the evening they are all caught, fed and then she stays in the pen w/ free choice alfalfa and another feeding later in the evening.
So here is a series of pics from the start of this ordeal. I really haven't taken many, though...
These first two pics were taken the 12th of May. I had just moved Kechi from the Jr Mare Paddock, where she had been since the 27th of February, to the round pen with KoKo and GG. She grew up with both KoKo and GG and they seemed to do alright when I put Kechi in the round pen with them. GG had had her first foal, Chylly, the week before. I DID NOT expect either Kechi or KoKo to foal that night and to have the two new foals on the morning of the 13th!! I truly do not feel that Kechi was really ready to foal, but she did... The "original" chasing had possibly started the night before - and both GG and KoKo ganged up on Kechi about mid-morning and when separated from her new foal then turned on the foal. I quickly built a new pen, right in the round pen, that afternoon for Kechi and her filly Jynx - where they would stay for 2 months before I would attempt to re-integrate them into the little mare grouping... Kechi NEVER did eat right the whole time she was in the round pen-pen... PIcs now...