Well we have a male and female that have been together 15 years and then this fall we found the female with a big chunk out of her neck, skin dangling.. too gruesome for photos. We assumed the male did it but did not witness it so werent sure, maybe she got caught on something..
After some expensive vet visits stitching her neck back together with staples and antibiotics for weeks and keeping them separate.. she was all healed up and so we let our guard down and let them comingle last two weeks and today we came home to the same kind of wound.. .
At least we were able to give her a
chlorhexidine bath with some silver sulfadiazine cream left over from the last incident until we get an appointment. Ugh.. feel like I let her severely down by removing the divider.. and worse after reading the "don't get two" sticky on the faq list.
So, moving fwd..since we really only have a single 9'x3' indoor area and maybe 9'x4' outdoor pen I put them in if it's not too cool outside...dividing both in half sort of feels too small. We have rats, skunks, racoons, cats roaming the yards at night so even if we add heat outside to keep one out there I worry about it. Any secure multi barn pen designs worth checking out?
Maybe re-home one? I'd like to keep her to make sure she's not abused going forward. But I suppose we *should* keep the jerk face now that he's shown repeated behavior..
Any recommendations ?
After some expensive vet visits stitching her neck back together with staples and antibiotics for weeks and keeping them separate.. she was all healed up and so we let our guard down and let them comingle last two weeks and today we came home to the same kind of wound.. .
At least we were able to give her a
chlorhexidine bath with some silver sulfadiazine cream left over from the last incident until we get an appointment. Ugh.. feel like I let her severely down by removing the divider.. and worse after reading the "don't get two" sticky on the faq list.
So, moving fwd..since we really only have a single 9'x3' indoor area and maybe 9'x4' outdoor pen I put them in if it's not too cool outside...dividing both in half sort of feels too small. We have rats, skunks, racoons, cats roaming the yards at night so even if we add heat outside to keep one out there I worry about it. Any secure multi barn pen designs worth checking out?
Maybe re-home one? I'd like to keep her to make sure she's not abused going forward. But I suppose we *should* keep the jerk face now that he's shown repeated behavior..
Any recommendations ?