Dipped in mud

So I brought my boy in from the pasture yesterday and low and behold his tail looked like someone had dipped it in that chocolate sauce they use at dairy queen!  It was solid, hard as a rock and the most delicious shade of chocolate brown.  (just don't mention the poop smell, or the mud smell). 

So today he had a tail bath, and as soon as it dries, its going back into a wrap.  Lucky him.  Lucky me.