With a bit of anxiety, Fleur was released with a muzzle for the first time since her mini episode of laminitis. She came in filthy and full of herself having galloped herself into the ground. Poor girl, it's hard to know what to do with her.
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I am lucky in that she has grown up to be tolerant, if she is on the yard off the grass, she settles and doesn't stress just poodles around watching the others. she is still very close to her mum, they spend a lot of time together.
it's a shame for her, she loves being out and running around but just need to restrict her as while her weight is fine, she is just prone. her mum lived out all winter and has never had a vet out since we got her, she is tough.I really feel for you, it’s very tough. To us complete freedom in a huge field of grass is how to keep a horse but the reality is sadly very different
Sounds like she had fun though!
Let her out tonight for a bit, as it was raining Buddy and Suze came in, Fleur went out briefly but when I came back to get them in she was on the yard and had considerately removed her muzzle.
The muzzle was on the yard so she had taken it off when she came in, ready to go to bed.
When I came down to the yard I saw it was off and suspected it was up the field in the mud and I would never find it so I was pleasantly surprised to see it tidily outside her stable door. She clearly decided that she preferred to come back to the yard and the others given it was raining!
Clever girl. Winter time saving, next she’ll be mucking herself out 
They're like us - some adapt to the "retired" life really well, some don't. Ramsey never settled to it, his field mate took to it like a duck to water.
I think given the state our winter field is in, we may just keep them in there till the autumn and harrow it then and use the summer field for the winter
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