Garlic Anyone?

Magnum's Status: Almost Normal

My Status: Sick of waking up to take temperatures every three hours, and fell asleep before I posted this last night, that's fairly telling, right?

GFF: TGT drives a bug, my amusement level is completely irrational

On top the barn being sick, TGT is down with something as well, CPL is gone teaching at a clinic and the final trainer that we don't work for left for vacation with us responsible for her horses now as well. Only about three horses in the barn are ridable, quite the feat considering the number; even the foals in the far, far away fields look terrible. I hacked Magnum today walk/trot, he was a combination of not feeling 100% and  a PITA to ride, so I did the brave thing and gave up for the day once we had some decent trot work. I did the same exercise we've been working on, but I felt like he was just rubbernecking around the arena today and bulging his shoulder. Whether this is a result of him having two days off or me not using the exercise properly I'm not sure. I also tried to ride Eli now that he is over his abscess and had his shoe put back on, but now he's footsore from the new shoes, so no riding there either. It was truly a thrilling day of taking 50 horses temperatures before breakfast and dosing them with the craziest combinations possible, than taking 50 more before bed. 

Some of the strange things we gave them. Entire syringes of shredded garlic - I gave some to the andalusian stallion, jammed the syringe, spilt it all over him and now he smells like an italian chef. They also had some crazy herb mixtures, belladonna, arnica and a variety of pills that looks like they came from Whole Foods. One horse wasn't eating and  he was given kelation, which was new to me. It was a mix of vitamin c and several other things, mixed with a drip bag of fluids and given IV. Everything I am finding online shows it in relation to heavy metal poisoning, so I am not sure what it's specific purpose was with a flu-like horse with no appetite.