Blood Samples

Okay, so a couple weeks ago I wrote a blog about "A Shepherds Gift" and about how we are in a sheep organization that is trying to get the public to know about the cure for Huntington's Disease. We have the cure, just no money to get it into the hospitals. I will leave a link for the video again!

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Anyways, we were getting the sheep prepared for their blood tests that we will send the blood to get lab work done on it. Right after we separated female and male lambs, we gathered the females into a smaller pen together. This was our first time taking blood samples by ourselves, so it was very tricky. The girls all got part of their necks shaved off, so we were able to see the veins. Then, we put a needle on the tube, and let it work it's magic. We did not use a syringe, it just came into the tube on its own, or it tried to go in there. Some of the lambs were very difficult to get blood from. We gathered the blood tubes, stuck them in the farm fridge, and let the lambs gather with their mothers again in the pasture.