So while we were running around last Friday afternoon trying to get all the stuff we together that we needed to take the kids up to Montreal for a weekend hockey game I got a text from our herd manager, Kim McAllister: herd health was done. Surely she meant done for the day? Nope, done…
So herd health day yesterday wasn’t really so bad after all. Though it started out in the two smaller lower barns with just Jen, Kim, and myself by the time we started on the Arena, where the vast majority of the herd lives, we had a full compliment of victims: 2 holder/shot givers, 2 nail…
…and brand new sharp clippers!
Why create all new content when I can plagiarize myself?! I’m blaming my kitty, Jewel, as she is after all my muse. Yes, yes, please suspend your disbelief and pretend for just one brief moment that something posted here could actually have been inspired. Anyway I digress, the bottom line is that the whole plagiarizing idea…
Because it’s herd health time (cue streamers, fireworks, and maybe even dancing girls jumping out of cakes)! I can barely contain my enthusiasm. There are some months that herd health day isn’t really that bad of a chore. Especially like last month…when I managed to slink/slither/skulk my way out of participating at all. In my…
I’m still learning how this whole blog thing works but if you click on the link at the bottom of this post you can see a cool Quicktime video of Jen and Kimberly herding a large group of our females up the hillside to the Arena for herd health day. Admittedly this was from June…
