It's been rather peaceful most of the day today. Of course Jenny is still in her pen. Unfortunately she was almost 3 legged lame this morning. I guess she needs to be moving in order to keep that long term abscess from bothering her. It's only about 1/5th of the way down her foot, so if it keeps plugging up & making her lame, she'll be dealing with it for months. I soaked her foot in epsom salts this morning, & if she isn't better in the morning I'll soak her in White Lightening. The gas should kill off any bacteria that might be lurking in there.
Rambo & Zorro for the most part behaved themselves.........well after Lynn who is a mini, wiggled by this morning for her close up view of the new boys. They both got rather lively, till John ran her off. She hasn't come back so far, so I guess she was just looking. Jenny is serious about it unfortunately.
Tomorrow we're going to probably put a halter on her & lead her far away from the boys. Hopefully she'll find something else to do & forget about them. If not the next plan of attack is to lead her over to Burroland, hopefully with some of the others following, & shut the gate for the day.
If we could get all of them over on Burroland, we could let the boys out to see what they will do. I don't want the old boys to get hurt by getting in the way. That's how Pepper got his cracked hip we think, trying to be in the middle of all the fun. Years ago we saw him knocked down a couple of times. I'm sure he got knocked down at other times when we didn't see it.
If we could get all of them over on Burroland, we could let the boys out to see what they will do. I don't want the old boys to get hurt by getting in the way. That's how Pepper got his cracked hip we think, trying to be in the middle of all the fun. Years ago we saw him knocked down a couple of times. I'm sure he got knocked down at other times when we didn't see it.
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