05/18/2026
Yesterday, we found a dead ram who had gotten himself hung up inside a fence. Seems like things like that always happen on Sundays when we're gone more.
This morning, I went out for my morning walk at about 6:30. We've been keeping the milk cow in the back of the barn the last few days so we can control how much she eats and help her drop her supply, and every morning when I'm out for my walk, I water her and give her some hay, but this morning she was officially dried up and so I went out to release her back out to pasture. I let her out of the barn and grabbed some vitamin drench for a ewe that's been acting off. When I got out there, I needed to turn off the fence first, so I walked around the back of the shop and there tangled in the electric wire and getting a solid shock every other second was another ram. I ran and turned off the fence and started trying to get him loose, but it was so incredibly tangled, and I needed help. I got Jesse, and after many minutes, the ram stumbled loose, looking a bit neurologically impaired but alive.
From there, I went to drench the ewe and look her over while Jesse untangled the fence and got it set back up. She was looking rough. I gave her the drench and just observed, taking notes, and deciding if I needed the vet or not. That's when I noticed one of my best girls lifting her back hooves alternately off the ground. No limp. Just alternately shifting them. We took a look, and thankfully it wasn't anything serious like hoof rot or something. Just a need for a hoof trimming. We must have missed her when we trimmed hooves in February. So Jesse took care of that. I went in and called the vet for that ewe and by then kiddos were getting up so the day was off and running and it was time to make breakfast.
This was the first hour of a Monday on the farm.
I hope your alls Monday starts a little more gently!!;)
