The last couple of weeks I've been having some problems with the sheep. A lot of them have been losing weight, their hair looks awful, and having the runs. Sounds like parasites right, except they're all on a regular deworming program and are clean for bugs. After that nice 50 mph wind filled day I could add pinkeye and snotty noses to the list. Two lambs died but they were weaklings anyway so I just chalked it up to nature doing it's job. Then my two goats aborted.
Yesterday my spotted ram Numbers Malone went down and went down fast. Within 4 hours he'd gone from walking and eating to three feet in the grave. I couldn't even pull the skin back enough to sub-q him, he'd dehydrated so fast. Took him to the vet, where they popped an IV in him and loaded him up with everything under the sun, but he died within an hour. Vet said he was toxic, something he'd eaten. She's taking tissue samples to A&M to see what happened. Makes me sick. I really really liked Numbers.
Cortez and Fuego were acting sick yesterday but they seem fine today. I'm changing the feed out though, on a hunch that it's aflatoxin related.
In other news diesel is up to $3.69 here, making me hug my 18 year old, 30 mpg Nissan. The truck is parked until diesel returns to a normal level (which will likely never happen in my lifetime) or I have to pull the trailer. I have found that I can haul 10 feed sacks in my Nissan if I put 3 in each seat and 1 in the trunk. I could probably haul more than that but I don't want to squat it. You can imagine the looks I get at the feed store, heh.
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