• 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

    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

    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…