Random Thoughts of the Day

My cages are ready!

They are being delivered Thursday night and I cannot wait. They've cost a bloody fortune so they better be as good as they look on the website. I want to see what the height is like as well. I ordered them extra tall at 50cm high per cage as it used to drive me nuts that I could never see into the bottom cages. It does however mean the highest I can take a stack is three cages. But I'm hoping they'll be a good basis to start with and will provide me with a 240cm x 60cm sow run/birthing cage.

However right now it feels like I'm hemorrhaging cash. I could have gone the much cheaper route and bought as needed especially with the first aid kit but that would also mean risking animals lives because I didn't have medication on hand. After watching 30 animals die because my vet couldn't diagnose clostiridia and I hadn't the foggiest what to give them to stop the contagious enteritis I never ever want to be in that position again. Soooo expensive first aid kit it is. I now have everything on hand to treat and save my animals should I ever end up with bacterial enteritis in my herd again. But I pretty much have $20 to see me through to the end of the week. I still need to raise the money for paint for these cages as well, yay.

So the only other purchases of today of note were I got my hands on some very cheap probiotics (Woolies had them marked for quick sale, except they don't expire till 2015) as well as some glycerine.

Other than that I'm just still slogging through this anthro assessment though I should have it done soon. I just have to work out what disease the ulna has, write a reference list and hand it in. Then I can have all of 20 seconds to myself before moving onto my Survey Methods assessment. I was going to use these holidays to finish the health guide, I have six days left and have yet to even look at the health guide, blah.

I'll leave you with a pic of a much much younger me (with atrocious fashion sense) at my first ever show, with my first ever pedigree pig, winning my first ever Best of Breed. The buff in front of me is Namoi Belle who won BOB, the other buff is just one I was minding for someone.