Just a little improv.

Today was an eventful day, just a little. I had a screening done on my back yesterday morning to try and relieve pain in my lower back so today I am a little sore. I lost one of my ewes yesterday, heavy worm loads this time of year, and I had to bring her to our farm graveyard. While out at the barn after that and feeding I decided to catch out newer boer goat nanny and clip her hooves and try to remove her old ear tag so that if we wanted to try and show her in 4H this year the tag would be out and the spot could heal for our personal tags. I caught her and tied her to the four wheeler so that I could trim her hooves and check her over.

I grabbed my pliers to remove the tag and as soon as my pliers gripped the tag, she jerked and ripped the tag out of her ear all while ripping her ear open. I was trying to think of what I had on hand to hopefully repair the ear but all I had was my stapler with no staples lol.

I went to the house and asked my neighbor, she is a nursing student and her brother is an ER nurse, if they had any dissolvable stitch thread. She said no but she had some medical glue for wounds and she told me how to apply it. I had no clue how I would hold the goat, glue the ear, wrap the ear, and all that fun stuff. She told me to grab the goat and she would help as best she could.

We enlisted her dad to help hold the goat while she applied the glue and I held the ear together. I had the bright idea to use a water bottle to keep the shape of the ear more natural while the glue dried to keep the ear together. We put the water bottle in the inside of the ear and wrapped with vet wrap and tape and hoped that it would hold with head shaking and trying to get it off of her ear.

It held so far as I am in bed now.

I had allowed the sheep herd to move to the back pasture to graze today and the cow decided that she wanted to run and play in the back as well so I let her play and graze with the herd.

When it was time to get the cow back in her pasture, I had to fo open the electric net fence to get her out. I apparently turned it on when I closed it earlier and forgot ha ha. When I got the cow through the opening, I had to close the fence and hook it back to the cattle panel that held the end of the electric fence. Not knowing that the fence was still on, I grabbed the fence and grabbed the cattle panel (it is metal) and as I did so I got POPPED hard and it definitely made a POP sound as well. Many cuss words were said as I dropped the electric fence and had to rethink some life choices that I had just made. I was able to somehow only grab the fiberglass post and put the fence back without being reminded that the fence was made for livestock.

It was an eventful day full of funny and painful moments and some creative improve with the bringing together of great neighbors to help.

Blessings and Happy Homesteading.