Do you ever have that feeling, when you're driving along minding your own business and then you realize there's a police officer behind you?
Suddenly you're tapping the brakes and clenching the wheel tighter to make sure that you haven't just done something he could pull you over for?
That's the feeling I get when the vet is coming?
Now, I love our vet, everyone that I've worked with in that office is wonderful!
We've always had good experiences with them but I still get that feeling.
The barn gets an extra cleaning the water buckets get an extra scrubbing and I pay attention to smaller details than I normally would. I want to make sure they're coming into a barn that it's obvious the animals are well taken care of.
I woke up this morning knowing the vet would be coming, I did not know my cow would be in heat again.
She is not as easy to handle or as friendly when she's in heat.
we've already tried to breed her once, and the breeding did not take, so we're going to try again this afternoon, but it causes a little concern for how we're going to get a shot into her this morning.
I'm also glad the vet is coming because I want her opinion on a Little Bit, the steer, as some of you may remember he had a growth plate injury when he was very young our plan was to raise him up until he was a good enough size and then butcher him.
Hew, as doing so well this winter that we decided to not butcher him this spring and give him all summer.
that perhaps was a mistake because he is going downhill very quickly, he has lost weight even though I am feeding him hay and grain which I usually don't do in the summertime, he is struggling to move around more and I'm afraid of letting of him go until fall was a mistake.
So I'm looking forward to seeing what the vet says about that, butchering him this time of year would be difficult because of the Heat and the Flies so it is not recommended.
what we will do with him between now and then I don't know.
We also had an incident the other night when I was trying to move all the chickens into one Coop together so that the ducks have some peace in their own coop.
(the chickens tend to bother the setting duck hen.)
I have been catching chickens my entire life and never had this happen. I picked up a chicken and had both of her feet in my hand because when you carry them upside down it puts them into a slight trance that they don't get as upset, as I picked her up to flip her over she freaked out and twisted I felt her leg pop! At first, I was afraid she broke it, but I just think she sprained her joint, I wrapped it up in some vet wrap and put her in the injury Ward. I'm sure glad the vet will be taking a look at her today, I feel very guilty that she got hurt when I was handling her, But animals are unpredictable no matter how small they are, or how well you think you know them.
There's always risk involved, there are always new things that happen and there are always new learning experiences. Stay tuned for the second half of this blog about how the vet visit went and how everyone's health is doing. Wish us luck for now.
