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Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians · #21 09/05/08, 01:48 PM

We gave penicillin IM for a week.
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Wise decision Kathy, I don't use antibotics for simple manevering and have always made decisions on the ICK factor. Gross me out during delivery (dead kids, mummy kids, slurry kids etc. anything that after 22 years of delivering kids you make me go put gloves on

and you go on a course of antibiotics afterwards. Something we are also doing routinely now is flushing.

It is recommended by our only vet text Goat Medicine that all OTC antibiotics be given subq...also make sure and look up dosages because they are much higher than bottle dosages...300,000 unit pennicllins are give at 3cc per 50 pounds subq once a day for 7 to 10 days. If she had ran a fever you would move to every 12 hour injections. Vicki

KimM · #22 09/05/08, 08:19 PM

Vicki, "slurry kids" ?????

Is that as bad as it sounds? Ugh, I can't imagine.

kclementsdvm · #23 09/05/08, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by thaiblue12

I think I would stress here that you have better be very, very sure that the kid is dead before you do this.

Very, very true. Hope I had mentioned that strongly enough in the original "cutting head off" post. If there's *any* doubt, don't do this.

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Originally Posted by thaiblue12

Even though I have felt around in some of these does I do not mess with antibiotics. I worry about building a resistance. I do wash my hands and use a glove and some "lube" so I have not worried about that part.

I am glad to see concerns about antibiotic resistance. We don't always put animals on antibiotics after a dystocia, either - depends on how much we have to do inside the dam.

I would also strongly urge everyone to wash their hands before and after going into a female (even if using a rectal sleeve!) and use plenty of lube. Many times, the birth canal is more dry during a dystocia because they've already pushed out a lot of the lubricant. One of my former professors used to change the real estate slogan and say, "Lubricate, lubricate, lubricate."