J.K.Richard

Jynx has taken well to the antibiotics. The swelling in her eye is almost completely gone. Her WBC count is normal — a little high here and there in other tests but nothing alarming. The vet has cleared her to come home.

Thank you all for the well-wishes in the previous post.

Horse-life can be hard [...]

My mare.
She has it.

Spent yesterday evening at the vet’s office. My Walker mare has developed bastard strangles — it’s infected the ocular lymph nodes of her left eye.

She’ll be staying at the vet’s for the week.

Here’s hoping for a swift recovery…

Here that?
That’s the sound of being one step closer to tranquility.

That is the sound of our horses being safely delivered to their new home.

Ommmmmmmmm

Next: The Move-a-thon! Scheduled in two weeks.

Chuck Wagon.

Ms Broodmare has been out of town since Wednesday on family-related business. We have been feeding her herd horde of 30 for the last few days. I was hoping she would be back tonight but after our phone conversation it seems she won’t be back until 11pm-ish this evening.
Dancing Ranch Manager is also out [...]

For the last few days I’ve been cleaning, scrubbing, disinfecting … we’ve had a couple of horses break out with streptococcus equi—a.k.a. Strangles. Generally non-fatal but highly contagious. We’ve set up quarantine, established clean areas, established the ‘hot zone’ etc etc…
I basically used my dealings with radioactive, contaminated waste as the model for our quarantine [...]