The steer has been getting out and is rather mean sometimes when Kim has tried to corral him back into the pen. In fact, he pinned Sierra against the fence once and bruised her up. So we are going to slaughter him soon to get him off her hands. We decided that making him a smaller pen with reinforced fence posts will help him stay fenced until we can get him to the butcher in two weeks. So we went to make the pen lastnight and while we were there the steer started to get a little pushy with Charlie. Charlie smacked him a couple of times but he wouldn't leave him alone, so Charlie decided to punch him in the face. Unfortunately, he caught him right on the eye socket bone and hurt his hand. We went to the urgent care today to get it checked out and, surprise, it is broken. So now Charlie has to see an orthopedic surgeon to see if it needs surgery. What great timing considering school starts on Tuesday and it just happens to be his right hand. He isn't going to have very much fun for the next couple of weeks. It hurts, but we both think it's pretty funny!
It's not casted, just splinted right now, but if he needs surgery, I'm sure he'll have to get a cast. Also, surprise, the steer isn't a steer after all. When we got there yesterday we noticed that he is pretty well hung for a steer. This may explain why he is getting more aggressive. We are too happy about that.
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Correct that last line, "We are NOT too happy about that."
No good! I hope Charlie doesn't need surgery, when will you find out?
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