After the advice from the farrier last week, I talked to the BO about what to do with Rush. She's one of those ridiculously hard to talk to people and tramples all over whatever you try to say, insisting that her opinion is the only right one and that anything else is absolutely ridiculous. So instead of y'know, fixing the cause and changing Rush's feed, we put her on 2 scoops of bute for 5 days (because it's an anti-inflammatory). So she got 2 scoops for five days. I took her out on the third, I think, and had one of the minions trot her a couple steps, but she looked pretty uncomfortable so I put her home and didn't take her out again until today. Her 5 days ended on Monday, she didn't have bute Tues/Wed, and I started it up again today after re-evaluating on the lunge line.
As you can see, definitely not sound. In fact, I would say less sound than when she first started going off. There was a lot of rambunction in there due to the fact that she's been in prison for about three weeks now. After this rather disappointing but not surprising result of 5 days of bute, which is obviously not working (not that I expected it to) I left the BO a message telling her that I was not happy with the way things are going and that I want to be more proactive about fixing the problem. We tried her way, it didn't work, and I'm going to be more forceful about getting the feed changed. The BO's reasoning for not changing the feed was "she's been on cubes her whole life!" but, well, things change. She was a racehorse then a broodmare then a pasture puff, and now she's doing arena work. Those all demand very different diets.
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