Abscesses Continued

To update from my last post, Pokey has been handling his catheter situation amazingly well! He is so well behaved when we flush his eye out, it's quite unbelievable. Crud has been coming out of his eye but the fact that it is draining is a good sign. Plus he has not developed a temperature and remains in good shape otherwise.

Chester is another one of the pigs with an abscess. He had his lanced and drained on Tuesday. He now has gauze inserted. The string you see hanging out is from the gauze that is in his mouth. Chester is one of the first boys that I met here. He used to be in the East field. This was the first field I learned to feed in and learned which pigs got which medications and such. Chester was always at the fence ready to go! Now he resides in the pens while he heals.

Before he had his abscess lanced Chester would always flip his pool and/or water bowl into his wallow. This boy loves his wallow full of water! He cannot have a wallow or pool now as he heals. I'm sure he is antsy to get back into some mud.