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Re: [RC] Endurance topics! - TypeF \(Jackie Floyd\)This past weekend I had the opportunity to ride with Maryben Stover on a new trail in her neck of the woods. It was the day we had horrendous storms here in the San Joaquin Valley. We never got poured on in San Jose like it did here while I was gone, but it was cool and windy and we got rained on briefly. We happened to be off our horses for a snack break when the skies open. Talk about disgruntled riders when we had to climb back into our soaked sheepskin saddle covers. Yuck! James sweated a lot because it was a tough trail. It was a two hour trailer ride over and a two hour trailer ride back. We went approx. 15 miles. Up until that day, it had been very warm here still. When I unloaded him at home, I noticed he was acting a little funny. Kind of antsy. Not staying in one place very long, kind of stomping his back feet, etc. So I watched him for quite a while. He stopped doing that about a half hour after we got home so I left him alone. He never looked at his belly. As a secondary thing, he developed a really stiff neck and couldn't reach the ground later that night for his feed. As it was a 20 degrees colder than it had been the day before I put a blanket on him for the night even though he was under a cover. The next morning he still had a stiff neck but had worked out of it by the afternoon. I'm sure the neck thing was brought on by the fact that he JIGGED all day, uphill and downhill. Made himself sore. But the weather, I'm sure contributed since it was so different than what he's been used to. :) Jackie and James Dean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Sullivan" <greymare56@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "steph teeter" <stephteeter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:17 AM Subject: Re: [RC] Endurance topics! ----- Original Message ----- From: "steph teeter" <stephteeter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Here's a question for you - after a ride last weekend, three horses coliced - all were top ten, all fit and seasoned horses, all had great vet scores all day, no indication of trouble. It was the first rainy cool day we've had all summer. Lots of water on the trail, in creek crossings. *Hi Steph, It could very well have been weather related. We had a pony that would colic with the advent of any weather change. Also, at least here in Calif, we are currently having a really radical shift from our temps of night in the 60's and days in the upper 90's.......we are getting odd frosts at night with horses just starting a winter coat...but still quite hot during the day. They may also just not drink as much when the weather starts to change. My mare has fuzzed up alarmingly this past week and was shivering when I went out to feed the other day. With her first introduction to a ride this weekend (Chamberlin Ck. 30)...I am a bit worried about the heat during the day. As this is her only ride, I am not going to clip belly or neck. She will have to deal with it; we will have to go slow. However, with this horse I am not worried about water intake or hydration...she is a chow hound, drinks well and I have been giving a lot of soaked beet pulp this week and water with bran thrown in...she really tanks up. Drive time to the ride is under 2 hours and it will be relatively cool... Still remains to be seen how she does.... Thanks for the heads up on non-endurance related topics. Karen =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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