injection swelling

[lamoncha lover]

My doe has had a snottyish nose for a few weks. I decided to give her oxymycin 200.Third day of vaccine whe got a swollen spot and even her leg is swollen...i gave it in the skin /fat area behind front leg. what did i do wrong? and what can i do? thanks

[Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians]

It's doing exactly what it should do, you inject deep into the muscle of a cow, it aggrevates the surround tissue, getting it faster into the blood stream. Problem is goats don't have the muscle mass to deal with this. All OTC antibiotics should be given subq. Even cattle instructions are for subq now so it doesn't form abscess in the main muscle masses which are prime cuts.

The skin over the last ribs will pull out quite far, switching from one side of the goat to the other works really well. Vicki