Jewel: Mainly trim their hooves as far as actual care. The hooves need to be trimmed every six weeks to three months and some of that depends on the animal, it depends on the terrain. If you’re in a rocky terrain, they’re going to keep their hooves trimmed a little bit themselves just by grazing around and browsing around, but that’s the main thing that you would do that’s a more natural thing, I guess, if you call clipping toenails natural, but besides worming. If there’s breeding animal then there’s something different than you do too. Some areas are selenium deficient so you would give them Bosey shots and, there again, your vet would know if your area is selenium deficient and what they would recommend for you for that area. A shot of…After they’ve had boosters of CD&T, I won’t probably say this right, but clostridium…I can probably almost spell it better than I can say it, but CD&T is what it is and it has a tetanus (unintelligible) in it too and so that is like once a year and that prevents an over-eating disease, which you just never know when that might crop up. I actually have never been around anybody who’s had, but most everybody does vaccinate for CD&T, for the over-eating toxemia.

Tammy: Which may be why you’ve never seen it.

Jewel: Yeah that might be with some consistent programs. And so those two things. And then another thing with the worming part of it is there’s different ways. There’s pour-on, there’s injection, there’s a paste that you can use. But something I found, I finally took someone’s advice and had the feces tested, had a fecal test on it, and found out I didn’t need to be worming, at least at that time I didn’t, so I was over-worming; I didn’t need to. And then you also need to be aware of if they would have lice or bugs of any sort.
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