A trip to the vet *da da da da!*

Connie

Jaws

     That was supposed to be ominous music. Just so you know. ;)

     But the actual subject of the post is, we took Connie to the vet. We noticed when we worked cows she had something growing on her eye. We had too much on our hands at the time so we couldn't catch her then, but we noticed her up in the corrals yesterday so we ran out and shut the gate on her and called the vet to see if he had time that afternoon. He did, so we loaded her up along with our last cow left to calve, Yosline (Jaws), whom we wanted to preg-check, and headed off to the vet's! We got there and waited until the vet had finished on the bull he was working on, then unloaded our two cows and ran them up the lane. The vet first checked Jaws and said she had a big calf in her. (Yay!) Then he looked at Connie. He said it was a *some word I can't remember* tumor. He then slipped a halter on her and positioned her head so he could work on her. He cut off the tumor with a special knife and then put liquid nitrogen on it to freeze the cells and keep the tumor from growing back. We're supposed to keep and eye on her and if we see it coming back we can take her in for a second treatment. (A note, I thought about posting a picture of her eye, but couldn't find a picture that looked right. If you see pictures of eye tumors, though, that's probably not what Connie's looked like. Her's was quite small)
     Well, that's about it, but I will keep you posted on Jaws' calf and Connie's eye. ;)

A Series of Fortunate Events

     Greetings! I have multiple bits of information  which I am going to try to list chronologically.
     Firstly, we have a bunch of calves that I have not yet told you about! Squeaky had a girl named Princess, Charity had a boy named Dragon Dancer, Connie had a boy named Mortimer Mushroom, Cassandra had a boy named Po, and Maggie had a boy named Thai Lung. (From Kung Fu Panda, to those whom that interests.)
     Secondly, we worked cows! I'm going to give you a short or not-so-short run through. It depends on how much of it I remember. The first thing we did to work cows was to feed the cows up in the big pen right next to the corrals, and then close the gates. Then we did the rest of the chores while they munched away. Next we herded them all into the small pen right next to the corrals. It has a bit of a funnel so that makes it easier to transfer cows from it into the corrals. Then, we herded 'em into the corrals! End of step one. Step two was sorting. With two on the inside, one on the outside, and one on the gate, it went pretty well. We sorted all the calves off into one of the corral pens and then we waited for Farmer to get all the cow-working supplies ready. (This made a good break to get into the calves' pen and pet them!!!) Step three was working the cows. We'd run a few cows up into the holding pen connected to the lane and shoo them up into the lane itself. Then we block of the exit and Farmer gives them all a shot for diseases they're prone to get after calving and pours on a liquid to de-worm and de-lice them and all that stuff. Then, we're on to step four: lunch break! xD Step five was working the calves- the best part! We ran about six of the into the holding pen and one by one ran them up the lane into the squeeze-chute. Although the people who did the job varied, there were four basic jobs. One person pushes the calf up the lane, one person holds the squeeze-chute's tailgate open, one person runs the head catcher, and on person gives the shots. Farmer gave all the shots. The first shot was for blackleg and pinkeye, the second show was for pneumonia and such. We ran all the calves through the chute and back into a different pen. After they all were vaccinated, we herded them into the pen with their mothers and let them back into their normal pasture!
     Whew! *deep breath* And thirdly, after that, Dark Chocolate and Kate calved! Dark Chocolate had a boy and Kate a girl, neither of which are named yet.
     Aaaaaaaaand..... lastly, I've been doing a few things on GooglePlus such as introducing our animals. If you view my profile at the bottom of the page, there is a link to our GooglePlus there.
     And now, I bid you-farewell!
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