Physio Bits and Clicks.

Charlies Physio Grace Fairburn came to see him on Wed 29th and was very pleased with him the knot in his neck has gone and his range of movement and his back flexibility are all good. he wont need to see her again for 3 months. However she has said he is  chunky which in my book is another way of saying 'fat'! This is probably as a result of going to floor feeding rather than controlled nets about 6 weeks ago.

We have changed bits. In my lesson on Friday we had a good look in his mouth and agreed contrary to my thoughts he has got plenty of space in the roof of his mouth however he has a very thick tongue and my Neue Schule bit is pressing on it.
We popped him into a 16mm Verbindend and after an initial getting used to it phase he settled down nicely so time will tell. The lesson was awesome.

We hacked again Saturday morning just Charlie and his field buddy Munchkin. Both boys were very well behaved and Charlie led most of the way. As a result of the bit change I had another look at his hacking bit and decided to drop it a hole each side. He seemed to much prefer this a chomped quite happily instead of waggling his tongue everywhere. I had forgotten my antislip pad for my saddle and i dont know if it was the bit change or the saddle pad but for the first time ever he came back from the hack as cool as a cucumber hardly any sweat at all.
Today  we have weighed his hay. I borrowed a scale from another livery. I would say the weight I got off him pre Xmas has gone back on as a result of floor feeding. We give them hay in the field but only a little.
I filled my wheelbarrow around about what he normally gets but I always top up too.
I weighed it and it was about 10kg so I guess I have been giving him nearer 12kg. I used a bag from my garden shredder, its a plastic hessian one with two handles, and that filled is 3kg and very filled is 4kg. Weighing it by filling a haynet and then emptying is too much hassle but as its easy to stuff it in an open bag.
I have a rope with a big clip on it that used to have the haynet on it so it made the job of weighing it in the stable very easy. tomorrow we will see how he felt and then start reducing a little more.

The Clicker Training has started I have purchased a book by Ben Hart. We are just doing small steps to get him used to click means good.

We have had another slight feed change and dropped the Topspec Topchop Lite. He was only having a small amount but as it has Alfalfa in it I am trying him without it. So he jsut gets a mug of Fast Fibre and a dose of Equifeast CCC.