Well not exactly a whole vet day but almost!
I had quite a list of tasks for our vet Dr Tara Timpson to work on with her assistant Anita.
We had medicals for girls going away to be bred, fighting teeth to be checked on the boys and a couple of microchips to insert. Along the way I wanted to look at a couple of skin blemishes and two animals recovering from mite infestations.

Everything was pretty much routine apart from a dreaded microchip issue where we could not find a chip we had implanted earlier but did find one that we didn't even know was there.....all of which consumed a good deal of valuable time and effort.

One of the females I was planning to take to Portland tomorrow will not be going after all. We noticed during shearing that she had a couple of small lumps on her side. Dr Timpson decided it would be best to remove the smaller lump and send it to the lab to determine what it was.




The female is given a sedative and a couple of shots of local anesthetic on either side of the lump.











The small growth turns out to be nothing more than a pustule which could be caused by something as simple as a ingrowing hair.

Dr Timpson stitches up the wound ,disinfects the site and apples fly repellent. The stitches can come out after 10 days.

I obviously haven't checked the fighting teeth soon enough as one boy is the victin af a nasty neck bite and it will need dressing with Nolvasan each day until it heals

Off to Portland tomorow. So the Blog may get behind slightly while I am away.

Adrian Stewart