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    Stocks giving a horse a new lease on life...

    I posted this a few days ago:
    http://www.chronofhorse.com/forum/sh...d.php?t=233885

    but I couldn't figure out how to change the thread title, and the story I want to share is actually about how this project is saving a DIFFERENT horse...

    [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Even if you read our updates often, it is likely you don't know a whole lot about Nico. You may know that she's an abuse case, beaten by a 2x4 in her past. If you've volunteered here or really kept up, you may know her as the mare who used to have "angry face" at all meals.... You MIGHT know she arrived with unbelievably flat/splayed hooves and brittle weak walls which we estimated would take a year to regrow and recover.[/SIZE][/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial][/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Or, you may have read a recent update that was terribly hard for us to write. We finally announced we were listing Nico as "pasture sound only", and making her available on a lifelong $0 adoption contract as a pasture companion. We'd gotten as far as we could as far as trying to recover her hooves and bring her sound. We HATE "giving up", but it was the point we'd reached. [/SIZE][/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial][/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Nico has been with us 2 years and a month now. We've worked in a variety of ways to try to resolve and recover her hoof issues, including expensive supplements and more than a few wounds to our patient and trusted farrier (thanks, MIKE) both physically and to his pride. And Nico has remained unsound and uncomfortable, and, most sadly, unhappy. We had even tried sedating her to trim a particularly nasty split, but she was volatile and borderline hysterical (the reason we almost never sedate to trim -- the unpredictability), and only the most critical trim was done. [/SIZE][/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial][/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]With Val's abscess brewing and making him so unsound that he was at risk in our pasture, we took the leap and Mike built the farrier stocks (see the earlier thread). By the time they were built and stable, Val's abscess had partially vented and decreased the rush status of the build project, and is allowing us time to teach Val to work in them safely and not try to rush getting his hoof treated.[/SIZE][/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial][/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]In the mean time, Mike has been having every horse in the herd fed while standing in the stocks, one of our favorite tools to make a horse comfortable in a new and unusual situation. Sunday morning, Mike was able to lead Nico into the stocks, and she settled easily. She fussed and fretted over her first hoof's handling, but soon realized that she wasn't having the same effect as previous battles -- the work was still getting done now, and she wasn't managing to upset the humans! -- and soon settled into the routine. For the first time in her 25 months here -- and who knows how long -- if ever -- before that, Nico actually got a thorough and complete trim of all 4 hooves. Mike was able to bring her badly under run heels back to a healthy point; to trim off the unhealthy long and misshapen toes, and to give her nearly a normal angle of stance and a nice break over so that her joints can work properly. She had her hooves each successfully brought forward where he could properly do much needed work from the top side, without risk of her striking him.[/SIZE][/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial][/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]The result? NICO TROTTED OUT SOUND YESTERDAY!! For the first time in AT LEAST 3 years, Nico moved smoothly, fluidly, and without any noticeable limp or stiffness in any hoof or leg!!! She doesn't reach forward with her hind legs as much as would be desirable, but after being on uncomfortable back hooves for so long....she's doing VERY well![/SIZE][/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial][/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]We are thrilled to share that Nico is again moving off the "companion only" ranks, and has already started just the easiest and most basic of round pen training work...and has been assigned her very own junior trainer volunteer, Mia! Mia has been spending time with Nico over the past few months, and has built a nice rapor with Nico, which is no easy feat. Now, she will get to work with Nico twice per week as we hopefully are able to complete Nico's recovery and put her into training for her to be riding...[/SIZE][/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial][/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]THANK YOU, to every one of you who helped with the cost to build the stocks. We are still about $100 short on repaying those funds off the farm's credit card. If you feel this project was worth the expense, please consider donating toward the stocks project....[/SIZE][/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Happily,[/SIZE][/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]AnnMarie[/SIZE][/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Crosswinds Equine Rescue, Inc.[/SIZE][/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]www.cwer.org[/SIZE][/FONT]
    AnnMarie Cross, Pres, Crosswinds Equine Rescue, cwer.org
    Sidell IL (near Champ./UofI/Danville IL/IN state border)
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    That is a great story! I know the feeling of seeing a horse that you thought was hopeless be able to enjoy life again.
    I am going to your site to see if I can help.
    www.ncsporthorse.com

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      Originally posted by shea'smom View Post
      That is a great story! I know the feeling of seeing a horse that you thought was hopeless be able to enjoy life again.
      I am going to your site to see if I can help.
      Thanks so much, Shea. I haven't updated her webpage yet but hopefully will get to do so before the weekend. i want to get some "after" photos or perhaps a brief video of how she is moving now. somewhere i have 'before' photos of how aweful her hooves were when she arrived, although i couldn't find them last night...
      AnnMarie Cross, Pres, Crosswinds Equine Rescue, cwer.org
      Sidell IL (near Champ./UofI/Danville IL/IN state border)

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      • #4
        Good work, y'all! *AMAZING* what an impact good hoof care can make on a horse, great reminder of that! Give your farrier a pat on the back for sticking with it.
        "One person's cowboy is another person's blooming idiot" -- katarine

        Spay and neuter. Please.

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