lupinfarm
Loving the herd life
My girls got blood taken today, were NOT happy about it and the vet had to jab Mione like 5 times to get a decent amount of blood. Cissy wasn't so bad, the vet tried to get her without shaving her neck but she is like a woolly mammoth and she had to be shaved. Mione was the challenge though, we couldn't get anything out of her. It was like she had no blood and no matter what angle the needle went in, the vet only got tiny amounts so we picked her up and then she started bleeding REALLY well. After the vet went I went to fill up their water pail with hot water and fluff/add hay. I fluffed their last remaining flake to find.. IT WAS FILLED WITH MOLD. Like crazy amounts of mold. Like Farmers Lung inducing mold!! I'm freaking out crazy-like and I showed my mom. We went into the garage to check some of the other bales and came up with no more mold. This crazy molding flake was the first flake in the first bale we opened, the rest of the bale is FINE.
So now I have to check the bale thoroughly before I feed to make sure there is no more moldy hay. We had a wet summer and farmers had a hard time bringing in hay without it getting wet. I AM going to tell my hay guy when I pick up more hay that we had a slight mold issue but I was SO worried because they've had this hay for a couple days now and they obviously KNEW there was something wrong with the flake because they wouldn't eat it. I should have checked at the beginning but we've never had to deal with moldy hay.
And to add to the frustration our reproduction strap hinges for the linen closet aren't in.
And the WORST part? Nacho seems to be deficient sexually. As many of you know, we breed Miniature Labradoodles and this year Nacho, our stud, has only managed to breed one of our poodles for some reason. He just can't seem to get it in the right spot, and to make matters worse now he needs to go to the vet because we noticed blood on the end of his junk today. It's not from the girl, she's actually not in heat anymore even though he's convinced she is (HE'S EVEN GUARDING HER!) so it's blood from him. He hasn't been bleeding otherwise, just after attempting to breed.
I'm also getting extra sick of people telling me my two horses should be in the same field. I CANNOT seperate them if I need to work with one of them if I put them together. I PERSONALLY think that would be foolish considering Mylie's ground-work and fear issues and Luna's leading issues. If I put them together NOW, I'll never get them out again. I PLAN to put them together eventually, but I want to be able to work with them seperately until I feel they have progressed enough to be put together.
Oh and I have an interview/trial/meet-n-greet on Friday at a local Therapeutic Riding School as a barn hand. Hopefully I get the job!
So now I have to check the bale thoroughly before I feed to make sure there is no more moldy hay. We had a wet summer and farmers had a hard time bringing in hay without it getting wet. I AM going to tell my hay guy when I pick up more hay that we had a slight mold issue but I was SO worried because they've had this hay for a couple days now and they obviously KNEW there was something wrong with the flake because they wouldn't eat it. I should have checked at the beginning but we've never had to deal with moldy hay.
And to add to the frustration our reproduction strap hinges for the linen closet aren't in.
And the WORST part? Nacho seems to be deficient sexually. As many of you know, we breed Miniature Labradoodles and this year Nacho, our stud, has only managed to breed one of our poodles for some reason. He just can't seem to get it in the right spot, and to make matters worse now he needs to go to the vet because we noticed blood on the end of his junk today. It's not from the girl, she's actually not in heat anymore even though he's convinced she is (HE'S EVEN GUARDING HER!) so it's blood from him. He hasn't been bleeding otherwise, just after attempting to breed.
I'm also getting extra sick of people telling me my two horses should be in the same field. I CANNOT seperate them if I need to work with one of them if I put them together. I PERSONALLY think that would be foolish considering Mylie's ground-work and fear issues and Luna's leading issues. If I put them together NOW, I'll never get them out again. I PLAN to put them together eventually, but I want to be able to work with them seperately until I feel they have progressed enough to be put together.
Oh and I have an interview/trial/meet-n-greet on Friday at a local Therapeutic Riding School as a barn hand. Hopefully I get the job!
