Another Cattle Crisis

The cattle seemed to be doing fine now that Rosella had recovered from her porcupine quills:

But sweet natured Jasmine did not seem to feel well and stood up as little as she could get away with:

I had previously noticed that she had one claw of a back hoof which was overgrown, so I went out to take a closer look while she was resting. It looked long, but not as long as I'd remembered it:

Alas, when she stood up it appeared much worse and was obviously painful for her:

I called the neighbor who had tranquilized Rosella when she had the porcupine quills. He came out and shot Jasmine with a tranquilizer dart. Remy pulled it out and ran around with it in his mouth until we took it from him - but it had been in Jasmine long enough to have emptied:

Jasmine was slow going down and never went out completely. I had to repeatedly push down her head to keep her from trying to stand up while the neighbor inspected her hoof:

He found a bad crack in her hoof and began paring away at the overgrowth and trying to open up the crack because it had become infected inside:

Rosella and the little horses were very worried and kept checking on Jasmine while he worked:

You can see the crack in the front of the lower claw which he opened up with a knife and rasp:

When he was done, he filled the crack with black ointment to draw out the poison, wrapped the foot in an ACE bandage and gave her a shot of penicillin. Sweet Remy came over and lay his head on her lovingly, while Blue just wanted to check out that bandage:

The next morning, I found Jasmine on her feet and apparently feeling much better. Sadly, I also discovered another big hoof crack, this one in a front claw. I don't yet know how this will be resolved or why her hooves are cracking: