oopsie!

Brad was up at 6:00am delivering 6 whole chickens to our guards who finished their shift. We butcher and sell 100 whole chickens every two weeks and the hospital makes about $1 per bird and we get antibiotic/hormone free birds.  He decided to check on the other animals, even though he has been paying a kid to water and feed them on Sundays so he could at least have one day off and enjoy the Sabbath.
He heads down there, and thankfully (God’s timing) because one of our pregnant sheep had a prolapsed vagina.  Not the uterus, just the vagina.
So he runs home, not knowing how emergent the situation was and quickly looks at the Merck Manuel for animals and finds how to put a ‘sling’ up to hold the vagina in.  He gets our OBGYN doc, Dr Vance, and off they go back to the farm.  Luckily Vance was raised on a farm as well as his female parts knowledge.
Interestingly enough, they decided to try the sling and not to stitch the area closed.  It was a matter of running cabuja (string) around her, over there, under this, and through there. Push the vagina back in, then some cabuja across the back in to hold the vagina in and walla!  Brad felt the baby lamb move while they were doing what I called “cats cradle” across the ewe and they knew the little one was still fine.
Sammey and I have named that ewe Honey, as in “awww, Honey.”
She was doing fine this evening, although we have given her some private quarters as not to be bothered by the others and hopefully not walking around too much.  We THINK baby is due in about 2 weeks, but the 6 that were pregnant when we bought them were all on approximate due dates.

the prolapse


this is why we are not all farmers or vets!




Nice boots, Brad.

see, cat’s cradle! Aw, Honey, I’m sorry for you. Although it doesn’t hurt, how embarrassing.

Holding it in.

She felt fine afterwards.  She was eating and peeing.  Both good signs.
So, pray for Honey and her baby that they both make this delivery and that Honey’s personal parts go back to where they came from.