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How To Soak A Horse's Hoof
1. Get bucket or low tub, fill with warm water, add Epsom salts until fully
diluted. Get horse, place in cross ties, pick up foot, slide bucket or low tub
into place, place pony's foot in tub.
2. Retrieve tub from corner of barn, get towel to dry off your face.
3. Refill tub with water and Epsom salts. Shorten cross ties. Pick up horse's
foot and place in tub.
4. Retrieve tub from other horse's stall, retrieve horse from his own stall.
Find bailing twine to fix broken crosstie. Wrap towel around head to dry hair.
Check rapidly bruising toe for signs of breakage.
5. Place rocks in bottom of tub to weigh it down. Snub horse to wall of
stall, refill tub with water and Epsom salts. Pick up horse's foot and place in
tub. Hold up other front leg.
6. Pick self up off of stall floor. Find place outside where tub has been
flung. Retrieve horse from neighbor's garden, pull rocks out of horse's water
bucket, call spouse for opinion on whether or not wrist may be broken. Explain
multiple times to emergency room staff that you did not fall off the horse.
7. Return to home, enlist spouse to hold horse, hobble hind legs, tie up
front leg, fill tub with water and salt, slide tub into place, while pinning horse
against wall.
8. Apologize to spouse as they view hoof prints across favorite shirt. Wonder
if water and Epsom salts is bad for new wrist cast. Check out burgeoning
black eye from broken hobbles. Retrieve horse from cattle farm across the road.
Share laugh with cattle farmer about how fast horse can move on only three legs.
9. Go to grocery store to purchase ice packs, ibuprofen, more Epsom salts,
and scotch.
10. Call vet and ask them to come over and show you how to soak a foot. Pour
self tall glass of scotch while waiting.
1. Get bucket or low tub, fill with warm water, add Epsom salts until fully
diluted. Get horse, place in cross ties, pick up foot, slide bucket or low tub
into place, place pony's foot in tub.
2. Retrieve tub from corner of barn, get towel to dry off your face.
3. Refill tub with water and Epsom salts. Shorten cross ties. Pick up horse's
foot and place in tub.
4. Retrieve tub from other horse's stall, retrieve horse from his own stall.
Find bailing twine to fix broken crosstie. Wrap towel around head to dry hair.
Check rapidly bruising toe for signs of breakage.
5. Place rocks in bottom of tub to weigh it down. Snub horse to wall of
stall, refill tub with water and Epsom salts. Pick up horse's foot and place in
tub. Hold up other front leg.
6. Pick self up off of stall floor. Find place outside where tub has been
flung. Retrieve horse from neighbor's garden, pull rocks out of horse's water
bucket, call spouse for opinion on whether or not wrist may be broken. Explain
multiple times to emergency room staff that you did not fall off the horse.
7. Return to home, enlist spouse to hold horse, hobble hind legs, tie up
front leg, fill tub with water and salt, slide tub into place, while pinning horse
against wall.
8. Apologize to spouse as they view hoof prints across favorite shirt. Wonder
if water and Epsom salts is bad for new wrist cast. Check out burgeoning
black eye from broken hobbles. Retrieve horse from cattle farm across the road.
Share laugh with cattle farmer about how fast horse can move on only three legs.
9. Go to grocery store to purchase ice packs, ibuprofen, more Epsom salts,
and scotch.
10. Call vet and ask them to come over and show you how to soak a foot. Pour
self tall glass of scotch while waiting.
