It's been a long week already--work, then off, cooking for extra people, (and making sure Jared gets his 'requested' favorites), laundry,and of course chores. But it's been a great week--the weather has been awesome!
The little black calf was limping Tuesday night, and I couldn't get a good look at his hoof. Wednesday I tied him up and tried to look at his hoof again, but he was too strong for just me, and no helpers around.
So Thursday I tied him up again and Jared helped me. Poor little fellow had a piece of old rusted barbed wire shoved into the bottom of his hoof. No wonder it took the both of us to keep his leg out so I could work with his hoof. The wire came out easily, but I wasn't happy with what came out with it as well--puss.
A quick text with a photo to 'cowfriend' Ann got me the answer I already figured--yep, hit him with the meds.
So he got a couple of SQ shots of LA 200 and I had some leftover medication (of the same type) to put into his feed for now along with some Probiotics. (Easier on the patient, that's for sure--Tetracycline burns when injected--I've been on the 'receiving end' accidentally at the hog farm a couple of times!)
I will say he's a happy little patient, and Friday let me soak his hoof in Epsom salt/water mix while he munched on some alfalfa in the stanchion area.
Of course I had other helpers--Dolly, Nessa and the white calf as well. Either someone is trying to lick me (Dolly!), or get something out of my jackets' pockets (Nessa!) or right behind me waiting for a treat (white calf!)--so I about trip over him when I turn around. I swear anytime I go into the stanchion area to access the chicken coop either Dolly and/or Nessa is there looking for a handout! HA HA
I got an MP3 player for Christmas so can stick one earbud in and jam out while doing chores. I realized I actually missed having a radio out in the 'barn' area. (No electricity out there.) All we get at work is the local country station--which is OK, but I like my rock-n-roll! :) Kyle has over 1,200 songs already on the computer for me to choose from to put on the player, so that helps!
Here's the mangled heater for the tank that I talked about a couple of weeks back (stupid youngsters--grumble grumble!!). This thing is supposed to be a rectangle and not touching the bottom!
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