drummer is a most peculiar shape!!!

[Dummer&Drummer]

as you all know me and drums have now moved yards. i was a bit worried give a few months history of intermittent foot soreness, i was hoping this was caused by adlib and often mouldy (out of my control) and he was not borderline laminitic so for one reason and another we moved yards. the yard has great grazing which i was not sure how it would go for drums, but there is no haylage, just hay that i give him (not piled up out in the field to rot)

anyway........... drums has been as sound as a pound, he is out all day every day to grass and in by night on hay (this is his routine at present)

i was hoping, and he has LOST weight. quite a lot acutally. If you stood behind drummer the widest part of him was his belly :) now there is no sign of it at all from behind, and his shoulders are not as big and i had to buy a new girth yesterday (which is ok as since i have had him, 10 months, he has grown 2 girth sizes)

anyway his tum looks great as does his front end.......but his BUM :eek: has not budged in weight at all... so he looks peculiar

is the bum the last place horses loose weight?

also exercise is limited to weekends at new yard

thanks x

[Afellpony]

He will need riding if he is to lose any weight on his quarters really. When he is being ridden, he needs to be made to use his quarters, they will then begin to muscle up. Trotting is good (but make sure he uses his quarters) If you are unable to ride him, lunging and long reining can all help.

[Dummer&Drummer]

i ride exercise him at weekends, twice a day on a sat and sun if i can. the exercise consists of hacking (lots) and schooling (have to hack to arena) and a lunging session (at least once a fortnight)

RI is going to my new yard friday daytime and is schooling drums and am starting my lessons back up since we have moved. so at least once a fortnight he will have that as an extra as well, and nights should pull out soon, where ill be able to grap half and hour of daylight

[teabiscuit]

D&D a big bum is a lovely thing in a horse, the bum is the engine.

drummer must have a lot of horsepower in that there behind :D

[Dummer&Drummer]

in the last few months he has learnt that the horsepower comes from his bum and not his front end :)

i have nowhere flat to hack at new yard which i believe is good it is all up and down hills, very little places to trott, lots of off road soft canter ground as well though and fields - but road wise, up and down hills

[Jessey]

Is it realy fat on his bum or muscle?

given he has lost weight everywhere else and he has been doing lots of hill work and he has reacently learnt to work properly from behind there is a pretty god chance it is muscle :D and muscle works like the horse (from my own observations) when they work properly, it starts building from behind and works its way forward along the back :D

[Dummer&Drummer]

given he has lost weight everywhere else and he has been doing lots of hill work and he has reacently learnt to work properly from behind there is a pretty god chance it is muscle and muscle works like the horse (from my own observations) when they work properly, it starts building from behind and works its way forward along the back

i would not really say he is in much hard work at the mo, not just cos i only riding at weekends, but cos i am still settling in and finding my way out hacking. it looks as though he has lost weight from everywhere but bum not building up from bum forwards

at old yard, his shape (aside from haylage shape lol) that was the case, he did muscle up, i'd say he is loosing his weight and a bit of muscle till work increases