Yesterday the wormer arrived in the post.
Today, I diligently wrote down on a sticky label all the horses and ponies’ weights from the list written by Monika when she weighed everyone.
Then I took all the wormer out of their individual boxes and filled my pockets with the tubes.
I stuck the weights’ label onto a flattened empty wormer box and attached it to my top coat pocket with a sturdy bulldog clip so I could quickly look down and find out the weight of each horse/pony and give the correct dose.
Clever, eh? Not pretty but functional.
I also took two headcollars. A big one (horses) and a little one (ponies) because some are less than helpful when it comes to wormer.
So with pockets stuffed, etc, I strode off to find myself some horses.
I wormed Kolka. She spat it out. I wormed her again. I had planned for this eventuality – there is always one – and had ordered an extra tube of wormer.
I ended up not having to use the headcollars. I just grabbed long winter chin hairs, shoved the wormer tube into the side of their mouth and hoped for the best. It was very sloppy stuff and Waffle also got a double dose.
Tiddles wanted more. Of course he did.
He loves all things medicine. I think it is from his time being nursed in the shed and having all his drugs orally in a big syringe.
The whole process was quick and painless.
And, as a reward, I sat down and had a chat with Albie. So that’s everyone equine wormed and I wrote it down in the Farm Book so I know.
