It feels like Christina Cline should have her own unit of time measurement. She has been coming to Farcical Farm every 4-5 weeks since Tonka arrived, and her visits always provide good insight into the progress of both horses. Today she pointed out the rings in Raven's hooves that mark her transition to barefootedness four months ago. They are already about 2/3 grown out, and you can see how much faster the hooves are growing now by comparing the texture of the horn above the rings to that below the rings. Unfortunately I have not been documenting Raven's improvement, but click on the following sequence (between shoes first pulled and four months) from this blog to see a reasonable facsimile.
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Are you going to start taking some pictures of her feet? I must warn you, you will feel like a huge dork if you do, but it's pretty cool to be able to look back on the progress your horse has made.
And it's not too late. Their feet will keep changing for at least two more months, and quite possibly longer than that.
Obviously, I am a huge dork and I just want others to be dorky with me. :)
Is my huge dorkiness not already obvious?
It never occurred to me to document Raven's hooves because I didn't realize how much they would change. I have been taking pictures of Tonka's all along. I will snap some of Raven's this week, as the soles still have a long way to go.
What's wrong with "a Cline" as a unit of measurement? We've got Joules, Ohms, Curies, Farenheit, Richter...
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