First trip of the year.. to the vets.

Thought I'd just update to say that the procedure to remove the cyst went well. He removed only the smallest amount of skin that he possibly could, and stitched it up with 3 sutures. All looks quite neat, and he'll be having the stitches taken out in about 10 days.
He can't be ridden or let out to grass until the weekend, so the next couple of days are going to be boring all around I think! Wish I had my camera to document the healing process...

The vet's also said that he's overweight, and so we're cracking down on it now much harder than before. They're having their field reduced by 2/3 and only out 2 hours a day. We're going to carry on everything else the same, perhaps soak his hay for a bit longer, but he's already being ridden 4 or 5 times a week, an hour each time so we don't think that needs increasing. Hopefully we'll eventually see a change, he's a ridiculously good doer, Benny has lost weight on the diet they've been on the past couple of months, but Niels hasn't changed at all... Fingers crossed.