We did a faecal egg count on the horses at the beginning of the week; the results came back on Tuesday. Boys, fine: girls, suffering a high burden of red worm :( Clearly their previous regime was not effective - this got me to wondering just how large stud farms with bands of 100+ mares manage their routine ministrations. I spoke to the lab (Westgate, very helpful) and my vet practice before settling on a course of Panacur Equine Guard. With a heavy worm burden comes a risk of impaction during the post-treatment egestion process, so I wanted to be sure we minimsed any risk to the girls. I was quite disgusted really and couldn't wait to start the treatment but equally wanted to wait until we were around to keep an eye on them. They've started the course now (5 days) and so far so good.
Otherwise a busy weekend - just for a change.
Saturday: between us we did all the usual chores (shopping and such), built a chicken coop, took down all the old lights from the stables, worked the boys, poo picked, did some weeding, walked the pooch, drove 50 odd miles for dinner with Rob and Jo, and drove home again.
Today: Pheel came to empty the muck clamp (yay), usual yard duties then cooked up a whole series of yumminess including a leek and potato soup, a ragu and a mushroom risotto, all by lunch time :O Oh, and roasted a chicken.Worked the boys in the afternoon, for a miracle just before the heavens opened and down it came. Rather worryingly many of the water butts are already half full, which leads us to the inescapable conclusion that we probably need larger capacity. Staggering really given that we haven't had that much rain.
And now it's almost time to kick off the working week again
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