Out of the 30 odd goats I've disbudded just THIS year, the one that gets sick doesn't belong to me. CRAP! Ass's show doe has in infected horn bud. G noticed last night and they (meaning G and Ass)treated with some LA after cleaning it out good. This AM G tells me she's not eating. BAD sign in goats. Especially baby goats.
Off to Ferndale for Pen G and some new wound spray. I have G drag the doe in the house for me to look at. Wound looks good but smells AWFUL. I mean worse than bad. Worse than infection bad. So I treated it, boiled with peroxide, dosed with Blue Kote, gave a shot of Pen, and a bottle... which she drank (thank you god). Then she started to shake. Shock maybe, but it made me think of tetanus which made me give her a whopping shot of antitoxin to be sure. Oh and an asprin for the head ache I'm sure she has. I also clipped all the hair off which made a huge scab/crust fall off.... all the way to her eye brow. She smells better now. She has a gapping hole in her skull from her horn bud to her eye brow. It looks nasty, but I think she'll be alright. I mean, I'm sure she'll be dead when I get home from the CT scan. (The minute you say OK they die...just covering my bases)
And all.. NOT my goat. A goat for someone who worked their ass off to save to buy a goat from a top breeder. Gah. This is my luck.. you all know that right?
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I was talking to one of the kids at the show about the flies around her horn buds..
ew
Poor baby!!!!
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