A grudge we can live with

So after a week of some pretty intense birth/death/birth/death/birth pendulum swings we were thrilled when one of our foundation females just had a good old run of the mill delivery. No drama, no intrigue. Just a normal, healthy, and pretty interesting looking King of Ladies boy. Hurrah for boring. Not that we were allowed to get…

Never a dull moment

The funny thing was that we were supposed to have a quick and easy herd health day last Sunday in a month when all we had to do was shots and body scoring. In the normal course of things that should have taken us maybe 5 cumulative hours to go through the 220 +/- animals…

Fire Starter’s X-ray

Fire Starter’s X-ray

It took us a little bit but I finally figured out how to export Fire Starter’s digital X-ray as a jpg from the software it came with from our vet’s office. You are looking at a side view of the base of her neck and torso. Note the severe displacement of the vertebrae in the…

Update

Update

We elected to put Fire Starter down this afternoon after X-rays today showed that her prognosis was not very good at all. She had two severely displaced — though remarkably not fractured — vertebrae at the base of her neck pinching her spinal column in at least two places. Though surgery was a long shot…