Eye screw, day 3

Today Doctor Kari, and Donna, stopped by to check on No Tail's condition. That meant we had to get No Tail back in the headgate.  It was harder this time as No Tail's calf did not want to leave No Tail's side.  Once I got the calf out of the loading corral, we worked on getting No Tail into the headgate.   No Tail knew what was going on and resisted.  Finally I walked to the house to see if I could find my zapper to encourage No Tail to move forward.  Before I could get out of the corral No Tail decided to try to get through the headgate.  The headgate triggered and held her in place.

Then the attempt to put the harness on her head.  No Tail resisted and moved her head.  I dropped the harness and was knocked backwards.  Donna was right behind me, didn't see me coming, and got knocked down.

Kari worked on inspecting the wound.  Looks good.  It is filling in.  No blood or signs of an infection.  Kari cleaned the area again with the Betadine.  She also rubbed the fly spray/rub on No Tail's head.  Around the wound, around the eye, and elsewhere on the head.  Flies are a problem for the cattle this year.

While Kari did this Donna left.  She had talked about getting an eye patch for No Tail to protect against flies.  But after waiting a bit, we called her and found out she had gone home to lay down as she had gotten nauseous.  So we released No Tail from the headgate.  Her calf immediately started drinking from No Tail.

No Tail looks to be doing good.  No checkup planned until Saturday as Kari is back to working days until then.