Staple Gun to the Rescue

I haven't finished my posts about the trip to MD, but that's because I have so many photos to sort through. I'll take a break and do a farm post or two. Yesterday I gathered sheep to show a buyer and saw this:          Stacy's face was split open to the bone. I called my vet and she said that if I wanted her to come it would be a couple of hours, but I could fix it myself. She told me what to do.                    I thought that the hardest part might be getting the old goat clippers to work. I found them in the tool box and after oiling they worked fine. That showed that the wound was longer than it appeared with hair over it.             Then I scrubbed with betadyne.                     Fortunately I had bought the staple gun (meant for this purpose) a long time ago. I had forgotten about it until the vet suggested using staples. She barely flinched throughout this.

            Nancy also suggested putting some kind of cover over this for a few days just to protect it. Since I haven't worn pantyhose in more years than I can remember so it was lucky that there were some in the back of a drawer.              The most stylish sheep are doing it!                While I'm at the barn, here is a photo of the long-awaited work on the southwest corner where a lot of the wood is rotten.               And speaking of veterinary issues, these are foxtails I pulled out of Rusty's chest this morning. You can see on a couple of those how they had worked their way into the skin.