Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night she went out without boots. The ground has actually been quite hard but this doesn't seem to have caused a problem. Her feet have chipped quite a bit in the last week but we're guessing they probably need to and boots won't help that.
There's been no sign of a particualr problem on the right fore and she's looked even over both fronts.
She looked particularly good on Wednesday night and walked out both on the way in from the field and back out again. She also looked happier in herself and is hanging closer to the rest of the horse group in the field (at her worst times she seems to stand far away from the group and/or hang out with a 30 year old pony)
It rained on and off for the rest of the week but not hard. On Friday she cantered up the field to us barefoot! We took her into the menage and took her boots off for a little trot round. She was pretty desperate to move but definitely still a bit sore so we kept it short. I brushed her down and washed her feet and generally faffed with her for about an hour. She's had her special balm on every day.
On Saturday we played again in the school and she was moving quite nicely with her boots on.
She's had her boots off all week in the field and is definitely standing and walking better as the week has gone on. She's standing higher in her shoulders and has her hind quarters more underneath her.
Apart from the mysterious cold leg incident (see previous post), on balance it's been a positive week for bare feet!
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