My dark fawn female cria with a bad ear has STILL got a bad ear that is still floppy. So another vet visit this morning when he revealed that the ear was full of muck and he didn’t have the right stuff with him. I was out shopping at the market – the fish man comes today – so I picked up the stuff on the way home and Chas cleaned loads of muck and puss out of the ear and in went the new ear drops so hopefully that will put it right. The vet also had a look at the girl who was gored by the goat and opened up the wound a little to drain it as there was quite a lot of fluid in there. She has to stay on antibiotics but things are looking reasonably good so far.
Tomorrow Chas is going to the South West Alpaca Group annual meeting and I am going to handle alpacas at the Judge Training course at Langaton Alpacas. I love doing this as you a) learn quite a lot and b) watch everybody fighting to keep their cool as they deliver their first verbal reasoning. I find it hard to imagine why anyone would want to be a judge and stand in the ring pontificating – my idea of hell – even my ego isn’t big enough to countenance that. They must have nerves of steel whilst I would be absolutely terrified.