More Farm News

Taking a short break from serious blogging and plan to get back to training and injuries shortly. The new $400.00 Samsung SCH-a990 3.2 megapixel camera phone with which I'm planning updated shots refuses to transfer pix to its memory chip. It's somewhere there in the 300 page manual.

So, post a couple of old pics, the first showing the under-construction woodchip track. The wood chips have been slow going as the arborist--great guy--who dumps them for free, we rake them out, seems to have less business than originally anticipated. I'll get to this full bore eventually, and we'll have something to train on in the rain!

The second picture shows a little fuzzy, but, you can make out our "track" in the mowed sections out in the field.

Dr. Jackson was by to give spring shots, take coggins, health certificate for Eureka Downs and inspect Art's hoof Wednesday evening.

Dr. Jackson is a highly intelligent man and conscientious Vet. But, I could tell, as expected, that he is inexpert at this unusual hoof damage and was only hazarding a guess that it's unnecessary to remove any hoof wall, and that a delicate patching job lay ahead. We made the decision to do nothing last night, and Nob will commence to attempt an Equilox patch this weekend. In the meantime I continue to google the subject particularly the art of applying patches to exposed laminae. What I'm seeing published, especially from the Vet schools, is that a number of methods of patching have been tried, none of them very successful, which may be an explanation why horses with quartercracks tend to be off quite a while, e.g. Tapit last year.

Actually, from the reading I'm suspecting in terms of raw knowledge on hoof patching that Nob may be as expert as any of them based on Nob's fairly extensive past experience. Who'd have thunk. We'll put this to the test this weekend, and if I can get this camera/camcorder going maybe even post some shots of the repair, presuming I can rouse my 16 year old camera person earlier than his usual 12 noon weekend wakeup time.