Yesterday the wormer arrived in the post.

Today, I diligently wrote down on a sticky label all the horses and ponies’ weights from the list written by Monika when she weighed everyone.

Then I took all the wormers out of their individual boxes and filled my pockets with the tubes.

I stuck the weights’ label onto a flattened empty wormer box and attached it to my top coat pocket with a sturdy bulldog clip so I could quickly look down and find out the weight of each horse/pony and give the correct dose.

Clever, eh? Not pretty but functional.

I also took two headcollars. A big one (horses) and a little one (ponies) because some are less than helpful when it comes to wormer.

So with pockets stuffed, etc, I strode off to find myself some horses.

I wormed Kolka.  She spat it out. I wormed her again.  I had planned for this eventuality – there is always one – and had ordered an extra tube of wormer.

I ended up not having to use the headcollars.  I just grabbed long winter chin hairs, shoved the wormer tube into the side of their mouth and hoped for the best.  It was very sloppy stuff and Waffle also got a double dose.

Tiddles wanted more.  Of course he did.

He loves all things medicine.  I think it is from his time being nursed in the shed and having all his drugs orally in a big syringe.

The whole process was quick and painless.

And, as a reward, I sat down and had a chat with Albie.  So that’s everyone equine wormed and I wrote it down in the Farm Book so I know.