I'd definitely get Raven's ears checked and cleaned when she's sedated... and definitely rule the possibilities of an ear infection.
My father would get pity-case calves from the auction and bring them home to see if we could doctor them up, feed them up, and make something out of them. Few of them did have pretty nasty ear infections.... they smelled like death warmed over and would just flail if you even just touched their polls.

Abscessed teeth can cause similar things too.


I'm betting these girls' long-term, primary, owner was a big, easy-going, guy.... back in their better days before they ended up where they did.

And Mango hit the nail on the head.... often in cases like this the steps forward of recovery will sometimes look like steps backward. Just gotta keep forging forward and doing the right thing.

" We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again. "

"...But nothin' ever came
From a life that was a simple one."

" You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.  You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile. "