09/05/2026
Farming has been farming. I think I mentioned that Snick our mini horse had an episode with some heat stress a couple of weeks ago. His blood pressure dropped significantly and we found out since then he's got a murmur. We had the vet out to flush him (he's got a hole from his upper mouth that goes into his sinus cavity), 6 months ago he had to be sedated twice during the procedure and this time under one sedation he had to be reversed almost immediately to to the blood pressure drop. He's 30 years old now which isn't super old for a mini, but his system is definitely changing with our heat indexes between 106 and 108 this week. He's been locked up with the fan during the hot part of the day. He doesn't seem to mind it too much because he's getting extra grain. This morning I came out and Rosie had gotten into a cattle panel somewhere and broke off a chunk in her foot. Most farmers know how tough cattle panels are so how she managed to break off a piece is beyond me. Obviously we called the vet immediately but I was able to hose her down to cool it off and we were able to get it pulled out. I got it scrubbed up and wrapped. Waiting on the vet. Going to do an x-ray just to make sure everything's okay in there. Leave it up to her. She gets into everything and breaks into everything. She's already busted two fans tears down every halter and fly mask she can get her mouth on and tears it up. She opens gates !! name it. She's a bit of a PITA.. fingers crossed this is superficial with no real internal damage. 🤞
