Lumpy and bumpy and mumpy

It is the time of year when the early babies start looking insane. This is Bijou,Melody's baby girl, born in March. She is starting to shed out, and it makes her look like she has mange. And of course, she is filthy, and it looks like the inside of her ears has mold growing in them. She does not, she just looks like a transient. The changes on her are a little more obvious than on other babies, because of the color.


Baby Spikey on the other hand, is still quite handsome. He is shedding off around his eyes though. Note how big this halter is on him---it is for brand new babies and it was still way too big. It even has a knot tied in the crown piece so it would not fall down around his neck.
I took these jillion pics to show his swollen lymph nodes. You can kind of see them here.

But lookie here--they are MASSIVE. And hard. But he is eating and drinking like normal, I saw him nurse tonight, which seems like it would hurt to me.


Those are some big ol honkers, aren't they? I dreamt last nite that she had a bunch of beer pull tabs like from the old days in there, and then when the doc checked him out, he found that he had swallowed golf balls and they were stuck there.


He looks normal if you cannot see those things. Dr. M saw him this morning, and he is not concerned, he said he is obviously fighting off something just like they are supposed to, and he will be fine. To make myself feel better, I could put some iccthammol on there to get it gooey and out of him, so we did that tonight. No antibiotics, no pain killers, no nothing except for iccthammol. He feels good, he raised hell 13 ways to Sunday when we brought him out of the stall to take these pics.

It did my heart good.

One more day of work---then we are off on vacation. Barry delivers the girls to the boarding place tomorrow so that they can be preg checked, or bred, or whatever they need while we are gone, but other than that, we are fairly well-prepared. That has to be the first time that has ever happened.