Farm Surgeries

Yesterday was surgical day.

Poor Sophia lost her uterus and ovaries.

She was a little wacky waking up from anesthesia.

Our Sophia has had her last litter of kittens....

her uterus showed signs of previous pregnancy.

Dr. Becky said she seemed to be a couple years old,

but in very good condition.

We are even wondering if perhaps she is Leo's mother...

they both appeared within a few weeks of each other...

who knows!

Sophia will spend the next couple days recuperating in the barn.

Sophia is not the only one who went under the knife yesterday.....

Donald, our polled (hornless) buckling born to O'Malley this past spring

was castrated yesterday as well.

Here he is sleeping off his anesthesia.

We were unable to sell him,

so we will keep him as a companion goat.

You might remember that I had mentioned we were considering 

castrating Smoochie... since he has failed to perform his duties the past two years.

Update:  Becky has decided to try to mate him with Myrtle next year...

so Smoochie gets one more chance.

Three strikes, and you're out, Smoochie!

The boys and I took advantage of the day without rain
and went for a run in the woods...

It's their most favorite thing in the whole world.

This is what unbridled joy looks like....

Wild abandon!

Hope you have a little wild abandon, yourself,

this weekend.

Make it a great one!

See you Monday....for more tails from the farm.