Feet

Owen's absess is doing well since the vet drained it. He was walking normally from the day afterwards. We have to be careful to keep it clean though.

The farrier trimmed Daisy's feet while she was here. She says they have transitioned well from being shod.

Mrs Jacob the sheep is limping a bit because one of her feet split. We have trimmed off all the hanging off bits anddisinfected. Hopefully will be fine. A bit our fault as we should have trimmed sooner. She is the back sheep and you can see her holding the leg up.

Perky has had a sore foot for a while, we couldn't find anything wrong. She was growing slower than Pinky as she couldn't move around very well. It is slowly getting better, and she is catching up again.

Poppy split one of her claws. It didn't seem to bad to start with, but then 2 weeks later it wasn't getting better despite us trimming it slightly to try to stop it catching on things (with her whining and crying every time we did). So I took her to the vet. The treatment was a bit drastic (and expensive) as she was given most of a general anaesthetic, enough to paralyse her, but not enough to totally send her to sleep and then the vet cut the top bit off. I then took her home all floppy and sad. It took quite a while for her to recover, she kept trying to get up and walk around then being upset when she just blundered in to things. 

I couldn't get close enough for a good photo as she has the fear of anyone even looking at it, but you can see the inside claw of the left foot (which is on the right of the picture) is all red. That is the inside of her claw. Gross!