5 weeks here and first medical question...

bee · #1 10/23/11, 12:30 PM

My doeling has a patch on her udder that has healed and is now peeling the dead skin. This patch looks to cover half the udder but does not seem to impact the teats. I did not get a real good look as she was struggling to get back on her feet. I am going down to get another look and put some baby oil on the udder to keep it more flexable and help unstick the peeling skin. I looked but I think I got rid of my can of bag balm. Going to try to get a pic so I can get help trying to figure out what injury she had that appears to have healed without my help. I have a concern that scartissue may impact the expansion of her udder when she freshens.....

andabigmac · #2 10/23/11, 01:02 PM

Poor baby. Could she have been sunburned? What color is her udder? Has she freshened before? My snubianish has a pretty pink udder and I can always tell which side she laid on that day.
Whatever you rub on her udder make sure you wipe the excess off so it doesn't have dirt cling to it. Coconut oil is really great. I would worry that the smell good factor in baby oil would attract flies or gnats.

bee · #3 10/23/11, 02:26 PM

as it happens I did not use the baby oil..I cut and squeezed an aloe leaf and rubbed that on her..as non-toxic as I can get..at least I thought so.

Injury is much worse than I thought. I looked all over her stall and NOTHING could have done that but being head butted by the preggers doe..who does not have horns or scurs! This injury is maybe several weeks old and the brusing is still dark, but some injured udder skin is peeling(which is what I felt while rubbing). Not outside so no sunburn. And the upper side of one teat is still raw where it attaches to the udder.

5 weeks here and first medical question... - Goats

injury discovered today
5 weeks here and first medical question... - Goats

baby pic in june
5 weeks here and first medical question... - Goats

when she came home 9/18/11

bee · #4 10/23/11, 02:41 PM

Before you ask, a note on why it took so long to find this. They were all dam raised in a field with only occasional handling. They got their shots and wormings on schedule but were not played with so are stand-offish. I know she did not come home with this as she was looked over before she was loaded and I did try to rub her udder since she has been here but not in the last several weeks. I have been working on rubbing heads and scratching backs to get them more used to me before trimming feet and more udder rubbing.

To me it looks like deep brusing..there is no disharge or puss like infection. No oder.

I am going to get the kidding stall finished and move the preggers doe there so there will be no more injuries.

mpete · #5 10/23/11, 03:17 PM

the picture is blurry, but that seems to be more of an object injury... she probably got stuck on something, or fell...
I don't think it will effect future freshenings

bee · #6 10/23/11, 09:03 PM

mpete, I like that opinion but for the life of me I don't see anything she could have gotten "stuck" on. I'll still get the older doe out of there tomorrow and remove one variable. thanks

motdaugrnds · #7 10/23/11, 09:52 PM

I too believe it looks like a deep bruise. If she were mine, I would either shave the entire area or clip the hairs very short. Then I would coat it withNFL (a .2% polyethylene glycol in water base..Nitrofurazone Ointment it is now called I believe). I have used this and would not be without it. It is very good at healing scrapes/bruises.

andabigmac · #8 10/23/11, 10:29 PM

She is adorable. She looks like she stuck her nose in latte foam in the pics.

Donna1982 · #9 10/24/11, 04:38 PM

Could someone of rammed her from up under her (if that makes sense)? Poor baby she is beautiful though. I love her coloring.

Pony · #10 10/25/11, 04:11 PM

If you can't get nitrofurazone, I'd slather her wound with some neosporin a couple of times a day.

Silly goats WILL come up with the strangest things...

Keep us posted, okay?

bee · #11 10/26/11, 12:45 AM

Update...I washed with warm water her udder and treated with triple antibiotic and then massaged in a light coat of bag balm to keep it supple. This was 2 days ago and got a good look at it today and the largest scab section is getting ready to fall off and everything looks less bruised and healing nicely. For a wonder she doesn't even hate me for turning her upside down twice in one day.....

mpete · #12 10/26/11, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by bee

mpete, I like that opinion but for the life of me I don't see anything she could have gotten "stuck" on. I'll still get the older doe out of there tomorrow and remove one variable. thanks

It's as simple as she could've been kicking and jumping, slipped her feet while going off the house and caught the corner of the roof.
Glad she's getting better

Pony · #13 10/28/11, 12:34 AM

Glad that your little cutie-patootie is healing up.

bee · #14 10/28/11, 01:48 AM

Thanks folks...the pic of her on the "roof" was where she was raised and now(until fencing is done) they are in stalls in a building. Only thing could have happened is the head butting by the pregnant doe.

Checked her out again today and all that redness at the base of her teat is gone and the scab has fallen off..most of the darkness is also gone. A really big relief!

Thanks for all the suggestions and support. bee