Trouble at the Ranch

Yesterday, we had to move The Brat (bottle calf) from her current housing to a new pen. It is a larger area and constant turn-out. We thought we did a masterful job making it as comfortable for her as possible (lots of hay in the stall, fresh buckets of water and feed, jolly ball, etc.). The Brat, however, had other ideas. Sometime during the evening she decided to jump the fence and escape. We came home from meetings & ball practice to an empty pen and no Brat to be seen. The family all ran and retrieved flashlights and spread out to look for her. After a frantic 5 minutes (seemed like an hour), we found her in the pen with Sheik, her old neighbor. She was shaken up and very cut up. We carried her back to her original pen and assessed her in the light. She gashed her hind leg pretty badly (I guess when she jumped out of her pen made with panels) and very scratched up from going through the wire into the pasture. Most everything is superficial, but the hind leg has me concerned. She won't leave a wrap on it and the gash is located on the inside just above her hock. It is not deep just an avulsion of the skin, but it looks bad. I didn't think sutures would hold last night and now it is too late to suture. She was getting around well this morning and was very hungry for her morning bottle, both great news. I am going to start her on antibiotics as a precaution. She will be fine, but this kind of drama I can live without!