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SDBoerGoats
Loving the herd life
Wow, no time to even get on the Internet lately, so much to do to get ready for fair.
Horse fair is next weekend. How did it come so fast? I wait and wait for summer every year, then all of a sudden it's fair time, and there is only a month til the kids go back to school! :/ Summer should be way longer, I think.
2 weeks after horse fair is regular fair, when all the goats go down. At last count I think there are 15 goats going,
so really have to get started on the clipping. But when?
OK, so Sparky went for a re check yesterday. Happy to say she is as cranky with the vet taking off the wrap as she is with me.
Her normal placid disposition is being sorely tried.
He said there is yet another chance in the prognosis. NOW we are finally winning the battle with the infection, HOWEVER, he says there is hoof sluffing off and would have to lay her down, and cut off the dead hoof, and start growing a new one. Instead of maybe 6 months off with a cast and bar shoes, it would be at least a year, and possibly longer. And LOTS of money. She would still have to wear bar shoes on the back, no problem at all, to hold the new hoof and keep it from splitting, etc. but the healing, etc and growing of a new hoof will take a long time and I will have to have a really competent shoer to do this.
So she has gone from a 50/50 chance of making it, to even slimmer than that when the infection started raging. Was told if she didn't respond to the treatment in 48 hours, needed to consider putting her down. Which she did show remarkable improvement with the infection. BUT now, the long term, and the surgery.
So decisions, decisions. Big ones. She's been in enough pain. But still eating like a pig. Her infection is getting under control but caused immense damage to her hoof. The surgery is expensive, recuperation is long. She is 16. My grandson loves her to death. I told him what the vet said. He says, So.....I will have to quit 4H for a year? I said she'd be off at least a year. And he said, well, that's ok, as long as she gets well. I'll just ride around home on another horse and just won't go to 4H then until she's well. he has an amazing positive attitude for a kid, no quit in him. 
Horse fair is next weekend. How did it come so fast? I wait and wait for summer every year, then all of a sudden it's fair time, and there is only a month til the kids go back to school! :/ Summer should be way longer, I think. 2 weeks after horse fair is regular fair, when all the goats go down. At last count I think there are 15 goats going,
so really have to get started on the clipping. But when? OK, so Sparky went for a re check yesterday. Happy to say she is as cranky with the vet taking off the wrap as she is with me.
Her normal placid disposition is being sorely tried. He said there is yet another chance in the prognosis. NOW we are finally winning the battle with the infection, HOWEVER, he says there is hoof sluffing off and would have to lay her down, and cut off the dead hoof, and start growing a new one. Instead of maybe 6 months off with a cast and bar shoes, it would be at least a year, and possibly longer.
And LOTS of money. She would still have to wear bar shoes on the back, no problem at all, to hold the new hoof and keep it from splitting, etc. but the healing, etc and growing of a new hoof will take a long time and I will have to have a really competent shoer to do this. So she has gone from a 50/50 chance of making it, to even slimmer than that when the infection started raging. Was told if she didn't respond to the treatment in 48 hours, needed to consider putting her down. Which she did show remarkable improvement with the infection. BUT now, the long term, and the surgery.
So decisions, decisions. Big ones. She's been in enough pain. But still eating like a pig. Her infection is getting under control but caused immense damage to her hoof. The surgery is expensive, recuperation is long. She is 16. My grandson loves her to death. I told him what the vet said. He says, So.....I will have to quit 4H for a year? I said she'd be off at least a year. And he said, well, that's ok, as long as she gets well. I'll just ride around home on another horse and just won't go to 4H then until she's well.
he has an amazing positive attitude for a kid, no quit in him. 
and have fun at the pool
I don't have the time to clip 25 goats before fair! And they need some time to grow some hair back, so we are late as it is. Going to start clipping tomorrow morning at 6, going to set up under a shade tree and hook up an extension cord and get some done before it hits 100*. 
