Monday 1 March 2010

5 days to go and some emergency treatment required

decided this evening, after work, that two of the sheep needed attention for their feet.  The first was one of the jacobs who had quite a bad infection, cleaned her out and used teramycin spray and some Pen & Strep to  help fight the infection; smelly!!  the second was one of the Mules; she has been down on her front feet for a couple of days.  This combined with a very big 'belly' means that she had started not to get up.  No obvious signs of foot rot although perhaps a little swollen in the soft tissue above the hoof and a little warm (maybe).  so again some footspray but this time 40ml of Calciject.  so now it is back to watching them on telly until they need more hay at bed time; mine not theirs!! tomorrow got to replace a light fitting so that we can see everything that is going on and also try and wrk out how to put photos on this blog!