Bringing Pandora home in two (!!!) days.
Have started to get organized. After discussing with Mom, here's the feeding arrangements: start with small scoop (~1/4 lb) of Ultium + vitamins + raspberry leaf (we buy in bulk, so it's cheap and it sure works on McKinna). Will gradually increase the Ultium until she's at an ideal weight, then hold it there.
Last night, we started to put together a binder for each horse for their records. It's a requirement of Pony Club later in the ratings, but we already kept a calendar for McKinna, so we decided to get organized and keep detailed books for each horse. It will have a calendar for noting vet/farrier/vaccinations/clinics/shows/whatever, a folder for keeping receipts or other important data, and note paper with dividers for different sections. There will most definitely be a training/clinic notes section, which will probably get typed straight into this blog for training notes! It will also have places for detailed notes on vet or farrier visits, condition/ feeding program, exercise schedule, and whatnot.
As a person that can easily get messy but absolutely loves being ridiculously organized, I'm very excited for this.
Thankfully Pandora rides in a 5" bit, which means we don't have to go out and buy new bits - McKinna has a few extras we can use. Bailey's old dressage bridle should fit her, and from our quick test, our dressage saddle fits her (hopefully the jumping saddle will too). It would be nice to have a brown schooling bridle, but those are fairly easy to find inexpensively. Other than that, the only thing I should need to buy for her are a few blankets for the winter.
Two more days, can't wait :)
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You mentioned getting a bridle and a few blankets and since you're paying for it all I just thought I'd mention that you can get a nice enough gatsby bridle on ebay very cheap and there are also used or new blankets on ebay that can be more affordable than ones from a local tack shop.
Thank you :) Yes, we usually look for things like these on eBay. I am actually watching two different blankets right now!
I will look up the Gatsby bridles there, thank you.
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