Spirit in Action

This morning, Spirit went for a nice roll in the dirt.

 

Then, she spotted her friend, Nicey, all the way at the end of the pasture and took off.

When I caught up with them, they were busy nuzzling and being cute. Nicey is our neighbor's horse, he lives in the pasture right next to us. We call him Nicey because he's nice and we're really creative. There's another horse that lives there too, he's not as nice. We call him Blindy. We call him Blindy because... well you can probably guess.

Spirit grazing.

An update on Hero, our ram with the injured balls... We're going to have to castrate him. After talking about it on some sheep forums, we've decided the best thing we can do is band him. I'm headed to the feed store to get some supplies so we can get the job done. I know a lot of people that just put their livestock animals down when they have such an injury, especially since he won't be able to be bred now, but I don't believe in culling like that. I also think that temporary pain is worth it if you get to stay alive, I'm sure if Hero had a say, he would not want to be "put out of his misery". Animals have a strong survival instinct, I know he wants to survive, so we'll do whatever we can to heal him. It pains me to see him limping around, I can't wait until he feels better.