Between weather and life horse rides have not happened for a while. Yesterday was to change that. Beautiful weather. Apache and Fancy tacked up. Putting on my riding boots and Apache starts acting strange and breaks his halter to detach himself from the barn, then proceeds to lay down. Gets up, lays down, gets up, lays down. I am thinking I screwed up the saddle really bad. During his 3rd time down, I manage to get the saddle undone. He gets back up and just stands. Put in the wash bay and we take a break. He looks fine. I am convinced it was the saddle. Try again. This time I do not tighten the girth all the way, in fact, it had a long way to go. Down he goes again. Get the saddle undone. He gets back up, appears fine. He had pooped when I went to bring him in. We could hear gut noises. Heart was not racing and his gums were nice and pink. He never tried to lay down again. Never kicked at his gut. Took him to round pen and had him do some trotting. Wife heard a nice big fart from him. Put him in barn for a few hours with just water. Pooped again and never laid down. Not fun. Probably some gas pain and the saddle and girth didn't help the situation. We had another horse a couple weeks ago who appeared to be colic as well. Think we caught it quick enough to deal with her, she got to do some jogging on the driveway.
Anyway, rain coming today so looks like October will be a bust in regards to horse riding.