As I was brushing Lottie, picking out her feet, washing her feet and balming them yesterday, I noticed she'd got one cold leg?!
I assumed she'd been standing on it in a particular way to cut the circulation or standing with her right fore on the cold stone but it stayed cold for a good hour. It was noticeably colder than the others and I even got Chris to feel all her legs and tell me if she could spot a difference between them. She picked the right fore out as cold straight away (like to check that I'm not going nuts and am always glad for this kind of result!) but like me had no idea what might cause it.
We turned her out and the leg was still cold when we took her boots off in the field. We agreed that we'd have to have a feel the next day and take it from there.
Of course I came home and googled 'one cold leg' and couldn't find anything that seemed relevant. I found out about blood clots (of some variety) that can cause both hinds to be cold, but nothing singling out one foreleg.
We spent a good six hours up at the stables today and all four legs remained at the same warm temperature... Maybe I am a little nuts afterall or maybe Lottie was just attention seeking ;-)
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