Have had a busy couple of days, out and about with a friend who is also a horse dentist, helping her out and picking her brains about stuff. Learnt heaps and had a wee play with a few horses' teeth so it was all good fun and great to work on sedated horses. Nice to have a day off today though and catch up with stuff around the farm.
Heifer 30 is looking good, the hard feed is keeping her in decent condition and she certainly doesn't look like she's lost weight since having bubs. Bad news for him is that today is the day he loses his manhood. We borrowed an elastrator from a guy down the road and this afternoon Ben and I go on a mission to castrate the calf. Ben has kindly volunteered to hold the head end (wonder why?).
Also been organising our new water tank. The old one is a corrugated iron one and has been sprouting a number of tiny leaks over the past couple of months. It's right beside the house on a tank stand and I keep expecting it to burst open and hit the house with a mini tsunami. So we have a shiny new plastic 5000 litre one on the way and have just been hunting out some posts to use as a new tank stand. We don't have a pump so need to have the tank as high as possible for gravity feeding. Should have it all up and running by early next week, yay!
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