all right we're going to catch our little lily
for the well not the first time i can't tell a fib she got caught yesterday to have
some bloods done to have her ig test done which is just how we test to
see that they got colostrum and so she's got some
onboard antibodies from her mother's milk if you have a look at her bottom
has she's got her bottom at us she has actually got very loose
stools and they've run all over her bottom so
she'll end up with an excoriated bottom so i'm going to catch her and then my
husband's going to hold her i won't make you watch this
and we're just going to wash her bottom but usually when you first catch them or
anytime they're pretty quick you usually wait for them to have a
drink and then you grab them whilst they're drinking she's in a little
locked up yard because she's got a little bit of a gammy hind leg
so we're just locking her up for a week or so and seeing how that goes
the trick to grab them is it looks awful but it's not awful
you hold a tail and you hold the chest and what i will be doing
is if she's struggling i'll be holding her a little bit firmer
the minute she stops struggling i'll release the pressure on her
horses learn from release of the pressure doesn't matter that they're
two days old i think she is they still learn that way
so mum's loose obviously she's not going to get too far
move Kiz so you might not be able to see what i do so
Emma you might need to find a spot all right so she's having a drink so if the mare
will let me in you might want to just go that way a bit nup
you got to be quick got to be quick with foals
if someone held the mare it would be easier but we'll just see how we go
she probably won't go back for another drink now but that's okay i'll sneak
over to mum and give mom a pat mum knows something's going on i'm not going to
make any eye contact with the foal
and you can see that pooey bottom right there i really want to clean that up
it's going to go in for drink nope she is going to go in the stable
I can probably get her in here it's easier to get her in here
Good girl It's alright Kiz
alright
I got her
Its alright lovey I'm going to bring her out where I can see
good girl
Have you got the video on?
so I've just got her very lightly here she'll panic she might panic a bit when
Wayne comes in I'm not actually doing anything because she's not
the minute she sort of gets a fright I'll
squeeze a bit tight on the tail and i just hold her a bit good girl it's all
right a bit closer to my body you're all right
lovey you can come down and that's it we're gonna
clean her butt
okay we are back I think lily is about five days old now and you saw us catch
her the other day and every day since then
I've come down and sat in here and had my morning coffee and then come in the
afternoon and sat for a little while so she could come
and sniff me at her own pace but I've also
caught her probably a total of six times and for no longer than literally
two or three minutes and you might be wondering why I do this
personally I live an hour and a half away from my
nearest vet so if this filly needs any sort of
veterinary care I need to get her on a trailer
on oops sorry sweetheart on a float and get her to the vet
so I would rather be able to catch her and
pop her on the float with less stress so if she hurt herself let's say she'd have
the stress of me catching her the stress of going to the vet and the
stress of everything else happening to her so I can reduce that stress by
getting her used to being handled to some degree I would like to pop a
fault a falter a halter on her but she will be the one that decides
when I do that I'm just going to see if I can bring her around to the front
whoop she's going to go in the stable but that's all right she'll come out
it's all right Kiz come on buggerlugs come out out we go
out we out we go you can go out too Kiz
good girl good girl so you can see she's a lot I'm actually
going to grab her while I can okay so I don't have to hang onto her
tail now as you can see I'll talk to you more in a minute
it's just from the last few days same principle though if she goes to run away
from me I'll hold her firmer and when she
relaxes I've got nothing I've just got my arms around her here
so I need to get a halter on her but she's a little bit oh she's not too bad
at the moment about her face obviously it has to go up over her nose
I've rubbed her everywhere I want her to get used to it Kizzy is going to get
in the way of the camera but that's all right she'll move hello
Kiz would you like to move please we know you're beautiful but as you can see
she's a lot whoop whoop so now she's fighting I don't let her go
whilst she's wanting to do that so I want her to relax so I've got nothing
around her I'm just I'm actually going to leave at this because this is the
best she's been and she can walk away from me so she
actually is fairly close to being able to be haltered I like them
to let me rub them all over their face and everything before I pop a halter on
them as less traumatic as I can suits me
but I must be able to handle my foal in case she needs anything she also if
you remember I said had a little bit of a bent back leg that's why she's locked
up they get locked up to help that straighten
she's going to need the farrier to trim her right hind just a tiny bit coming up
in the next probably 10 days so I wanted everything
to be less traumatic so I don't you saw the first bit and
I didn't get any video of in between but if I'd grabbed her and then every man
and his dog had jumped on her and trimmed her foot and
did veterinary stuff it's a lot more it's a lot more traumatic for the foal
so there are people out there that say leave them in the paddock let them grow
up and that's fine but I've had at foal three months I
had to go and spend a week in a hospital and I was thankful that I actually had
handled her so yep so that's little Lilly she's done very well
oh okay Lilly is nine days old
it's been four days since I last handled her she's a lot more interested in
people and she thinks that we're all right
not since I last handled her sorry since you last saw the video
I've probably handled her four or five times since then as in catching her
but I do spend time in here when I'm mucking out the yard and stuff
actually giving her a cuddle she's a bit used to being brushed now just a little bit
cheeky so she's much easier to catch
usually because she'll come up and I can give
her a little scratch and then a little hand can go in front she loves the butt
scratch come back here I've got nobody else with me at the moment
so I've just got the camera set up there and
it might be difficult if she goes out of screen so I'll just see if we can catch
her so you can see I just got my hands there hardly had to catch her hope that
was in shot and as you can see she doesn't struggle
anymore she might think about it I don't let go of her if she struggles
you want to release the pressure off the foal
or any horse when they're doing what you want them to do so I should be able to
rub her all over and
go down her legs which I can do and as you can see it's
a good thing for me that I did this earlier because she has grown so much
she would probably weigh almost as much as me
and if she really wanted to get away from me I'd have Buckley's of actually
keeping her now she's I let go of her when she stops
pushing on me she's got flies yes no so she's pretty relaxed there so I
just she can go when she wants so yeah so
I do it when they're little so that I can manage them and get them on the float
as I told you, I have three principles that I follow whenever I'm handling any
horse be a foal to a 20 year old 30 year old horse
I have popped a little ebook together I'll drop the link in the description
please feel free to come along and download it and have a read and
see what I believe are three things that you should always
keep in the forefront of your mind when you're handling and training your horse
and it doesn't matter what where who how or why they are
principles that should be there so we will halter
Lilly a little bit further down the track I'm just going to let her be a
foal she's going to go out in the paddock for the first time since she was
a day old the little legs straightened up pretty good
and I'll see if I can get some video of her running around because I'm pretty
sure she wants to actually explode out there but you can see she's
much much more friendly than she was before and that's
all due to just spending time with her and being able to
catch her so I'll see you all soon
how cute is that!!
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