Well, today was the big castration day. It went off without a hitch. Wow! I've never seen 2 yr old hooty hoos before. They were rather large compared to Jasper's at 6 months. Sometime over the past day or so he blew an abcess out his frog also. That smelled lovely. Poor bony little guy. I just feel so bad for him. He did sweat some while he was down which is good. He didn't sweat a whole lot but maybe with electrolytes and good nutrtion his little body get back on track. The vet agrees that he is two and says he may grow two more inches but doubts it. He has to stay up in a paddock tonight and can go out in his shaded pasture tomorrow morning. He can have 1 gram of bute a day over the next few days and has to be lunged 2x a day for 10 minutes for the next several days. As it turns out, Dr. Fuller treated this horse for severe colic last year when he was with lovely owner #1. They apparently fed him and others tons and tons of corn stalks, which caused Jessie to colic severely.



After Surgery - "What  just happened? What am I? Where am I? Who am I?"




I worked on his mane a little while we were standing around and waking up. At this point, it's just going to have to grow.