Wednesday, 27 February 2013

The downside to native ponies with feather combined with clay mud is not pretty. Pait's feathers are currently sporting a very rasta look at the moment with her living out 24/7 and me not oiling her legs before the gateway became a swamp.
I've spent 2 hours this afternoon soaking her front legs in hot water with fairy washing up liquid added. Also had to gently break the clumps apart just to try to get them out. I have not even begun trying the back legs yet as the poor girl had already had to stand with her leg submerged in the bucket (an hour roughly per leg).
Made sure to put a lot of leg oil paste on the now mud-free front legs so they don't get as bad again.


Am so looking forward to doing the back ones! Not!

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  1. Kingmaker Dales14 March 2013 at 15:11

    My lot have frozen clay-clackers this morning. Now Martin has read how long Patience had to stand in a bucket for each leg, he's decided they can all keep their sticky additions until they shed their winter feathers naturally, lol.

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  2. lube14 March 2013 at 15:25

    Tell Martin I do not blame him. I'd have left Pait's but I was paranoid about the feather becoming brittle breaking off with all the cold snaps and she already looks like a bog pony with her mane.

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