Today, 2018-04-26, I walked the friendly ewe known as "1017" back to the flock using Animal Crackers as persuasion. Strangely enough, the sheep really enjoy Animal Cracker snacks.
Several days ago I noticed that 1017 was limping quite severely on her front left foot, could actually just barely walk. I got her separated from the flock and gradually walked her up to the barn where I could look at here better. It looked like a mild case of foot scald, an infection between the toes. I washed it with a Nolvasan solution and gave her an injection of LA300, an oxytetracycline long acting antibiotic formulation. I have had fairly good success with various feet problems with some cleanup of the area and antibiotic injection. Within about 2 days 1017 was no longer limping. I had put her in holding pen 1 to give her special feed and keep her under observation.
She stayed in recovery for several days, then I led here out the the south beaver field and the spring ewe flock using Animal Crackers. These are a few pictures along the way.
She keeps a close eye on the bag with the crackers.
They seem to know to go after the cracker and not the fingers.
Out in the south beaver field, the sheep are lounging in the shade along with Kratos, their livestock guardian dog.
Kratos and the sheep. Note these are Katahdin sheep, a type of hair sheep that shed the fleece they grow during the winter. They never need shearing.
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