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Fatcat wrote:Why don't you kick everyone out except your good friend? Evict the apartment dweller and rent it out to someone for money not in exchange for work.

That sounds like a plan to me.

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Nine weeks tomorrow. Here is what it looked like today. I've been leaving it unwrapped for the last week, the rest of the foot is happier that way! I just clean it once a day, put A&D ointment areound the heal d edge and honey over the wound, and still a little piece of paper towel over it, tapp...

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Its looking great. Wow it takes a long time ! And i dislike those low down spots. Right at mud and manure level. Yes, the lowdown spots - this could have gone so terribly wrong had I not gotten supremely lucky and been taken in temporarily by somebody who keeps the most immaculate barn - he has a h...

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Here it's been almost 7 weeks. Here are yesterday's photos. I still wrap it every day, but have started working him lightly with no bandage, I just put a little honey on the open part and then a piece of paper towel stuck onto that cut to fit, that way it help lift the dirt and sand off when I'm don...

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Oh wow, great suggestions! Amado- if you stopped Penny Dreadful during the 2nd season, I completely understand why, but I urge you to drudge through because season 3 is quite good. I will give Penny Dreadful another go - I did stop partway through the 2nd season! (The killing is another I lost inte...

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I loved Firefly! I liked the first season of Black Mirror - but the second one - so far, I've found it too depressing, not sure why. Really liked the first season of "Orphan Black" but then it lost me. Just finished the first season of Doctor Foster. Holy cow, that was intense. Made you ke...

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Oh, and one more that I love - Netflix - it's foreign with subtitles - called "Dicte".

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I binge on TV shows on netflix, but then I sometimes get sick of them before I finish! Penny Dreadful was one of those. Galavant too, though it really cracked me up in the beginning. I couldn't get through the firsts episode of Peaky Blinders, not sure why. I liked Stranger Things. I really liked Je...

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I rode today! I got on him a couple of weeks ago - briefly, to see what he felt like - (because sometimes they look fine but feel off) all felt good - so today I got on and rode around for about 15 minutes - the arena where he is boarded temporarily is not used for riding now (private place with bab...

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I think he will probably need a companion, but we are going to try without first, if he can last until spring, so I can actually spend time looking for something suitable that my husband to go trail riding with us on, instead of taking whatever I can find now, that would be great. We are not exactly...

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Still waiting for the barn to be built! Ground work is done, fence is almost done, lumber is here, just need the carpenters. Horse is safely somewhere else, but boy it would be nice to have him home before the snow falls so he can get used to his pasture. and so the stupid bandage changes wouldn't t...

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One of the difficult parts has been trimming - I'm in a place now where there is a serious lack of farriers (one part time person) so I've gone back to barefoot. Mostly because I won't be able to ride in the winter anyway, and I had just spent a bunch of $ fitting and buying hoof boots for his front...

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It's not skin coming up from the bottom. there is skin growing in from the top, but not as fast as what is coming up from the bottom and side. Not sure how this will turn out, but the granulation tissue needs to get covered, and that is what seems to be happening, so I'm not worried yet.

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5 weeks today since Rico's accident - still wrapping it every day, though if I have time I've been leaving it open For a couple of hours in the afternoon while he is in his stall - then coming back and wrapping it up. Minimal wrap, just a thin kotex pad cut to the shape of the wound, with a thin lay...

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Day 27, definitely getting smaller. This once a day bandage change is starting to get tiresome! Wish he were home, wish my barn were done - it would be so much easier...

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We are building a barn, and I need to order the stall front hardware (door tracks and feed doors and the grills that you put together with the wood you buy separately ). I'm trying to figure out where to order from - I'm in Maine, so it would be nice if it was on the east coast. Have any of you done...

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If you have freezer space you could just bag them up and freeze them whole. Or slice and freeze. I love having stuff in the freezer that I can dump into soups and stews in the winter.

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v467/kjodi/Rico%20injury/image_zpswdc4ifvy.jpeg Day 20 - it really is healing from the bottom up. I lunged him both yesterday and today (he's getting turnout in the mornings on days the weather is good, but is used to being out almost all the time - so he's climbin...

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Wow. What a lovely place to ride!

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I saw that on facebook. Totally lost it at the end! Love, love LOVE the look on her face!!!

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We have a tractor with a front snowblower attachment. I'm guessing we will have to clear the paddock along with the driveway and a path to the barn.

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v467/kjodi/kjodi116/image_zpsinfrwmsi.jpeg Probably will have to have a solid wall (instead of corral paneling) on west side of overhang area as a wind block. Feel like I need to see the barn in place before I decide on the configuration of the fencing and gates in...

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And feed - Rico gets hay and a smartpak, I don't usually do grain, especially when he isn't working. So won't really be much feed in the tack room. Just his tack and grooming supplies. It's not a huge room, but with used of creative shelving (10 foot ceilings) I should be ok. Hoping he will be ok by...

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Will get some photos of the location the barn is going - we are on a hill, and I have had a large swale put in right behind the barn for drainage, so some of the doors are positioned with that (and proximity to house in winter) in mind. Depending on how the builder thinks the stairway to the loft wi...

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Day 16, and there is definitely skin/scar/whatever tissue growing up and over the granulation tissue along the bottom and sides, but not so much from the top edge of the wound (not sure why). I've been alternating with the leptospermum honey alginate pads as a dressing, and just the Manuka honey str...

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Not sure where you live, but we were told when we went to replace our cedar shake that they kind of cedar they can get now isn't as bug resistant as what used to get put on houses. (Whether that is true or not, I don't know). I would never put cedar shake on a roof now. Seen them in both wet (moss) ...

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The plan is to have 4 X 8 doors to both the runs and the aisle. Because of the framing, aisle will only be 11 feet wide (cement is 12), stalls will be 6 or so inches shy of 12 X 12 and 12 X 16, exactly sure (Which means I will be cutting some of my 4 X 8 rubber mats...) Wind and cold weather are an ...

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I need the overhang because of the weather - I want to be able to leave the stall door open so he can go in and out as he pleases, and the overhang will help keep the snow and weather (that blows in, and that also slides off the roof) far enough away from the door that the inside of the stall doesn'...

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Trying (haha) to keep this low maintenance, in a pretty wet climate. Rico won't have access to the metal siding on the outside of the barn, it will be outside the paddock and pasture area. I was thinking I would have to put the metal edging on the posts that hold up the lean-to - he will chew on woo...

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What kind/type of wood, or whatever did you put on the inside of your stalls? I'm assuming I can purchase the hardware for the sliding doors/still fronts (with feed doors) somewhere online. (Though at the rate the person who is supposed to building our barn is going I may be lucky if I can get the g...

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That's where we were - La Grande! Such a beautiful spot. You are right - cold dry is way better than cold wet!

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Fatcat - we were in NE Oregon, then Montana for a couple of years. (Husband's Montana job didn't work out the way we had hoped, so his new job brought us to Maine). NE Oregon has real winters, like Montana. Below zero temps both places, but not as low as they go here in Maine, and winter lasts a lon...

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One more thing, on a happy (or proud) note - though I've worked at a million barns, we've never kept a horse at home, and we had to start from scratch here, we are on a hill - we've never put in fence (except for a little split rail in my garden) - we found a guy selling white cedar poles - the tops...

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No boot at this point - mostly because of the pressure those boots put on the heel when they fit right. Also because they really don't breath, and because he moves really narrow behind and the one I bought is too round - he will certainly step on the inside edge and cause more problems than it solve...

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Yes, I could do that, and it might work for a few weeks - But the rest of the paddock, with the rain that we've been having, is a little wet and muddy, so the bandage would be destroyed. And once the weather turns the water is too far away, and no electricity - and everything would freeze. Barn need...

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So he was turned out this morning, and when I went to get him, the bandage was up around his fetlock :roll: which means I need to do a better job with the duct tape on the bottom! It seems to be getting redder - maybe the blood supply is coming back, I don't know. (Or maybe irritation from all the d...

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Will look into the proud aid, thank you for the suggestion! I have these pads: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v467/kjodi/kjodi136/image_zpswbydwzmw.jpeg I ordered them right after it happened, but I haven't used them yet because it says on the package not for 3rd degree (completely through the sk...

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Bandage changes are not easy. Hind leg, not so happy horse. I will get some raw honey. I just can't believe this happened. My worst nightmare, I never should have brought him before the barn was done.

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Moved to far northern Maine (St John Valley) this summer. In the process of having a barn built, and putting in fencing (and it's going MUCH slower than they said it would and winter is coming!) I have had Rico boarded about 25 minutes away in a very large pasture with a run-in shed. Coming from the...

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Omgosh, I love that Appy!

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I put my photos from my iPhone onto photobucket ( the account is free) and then link to them here.

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Yes, I looked up the Northern Maine Dressage Association, and it looked like it was halfway down the state!

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Thank you for all the information!

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Rosie, we are moving to Fort Kent. It's about 34 miles southeast of Edmunston. I've been wondering about dressage in Canada near there, but a lot of it comes up in French when I google! I would love it if I could find some help a little closer. I think my options in the states are really far away. I...

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There seems to be only one indoor arena in the area, but they don't board. There are a million snowmobile trails that make for wonderful riding trails (when there isn't snow on the ground). We will hopefully start with a sand outdoor. Then see how it all goes. We have to sell our house here first, a...

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I shared a video a few months ago of some piaffe practice, where I started from the walk, and it was suggested that I try working in and out of the trot too, so here is some video from today doing that. He's staying calm and getting fairly reliable, I'm thinking at some point we need to up the energ...

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Holy cow, he is gorgeous!! Keep those pictures coming!

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Wow, what a gorgeous horse. (And I love the brown color of your boots, vest and full seats!)

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Abby Kogler wrote: The Germans, Dutch, and some Danes are all really tall, I was like 'my people!

This made me laugh out loud!

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