Mama Red, my nubian doe who tore up her udder last Friday, is doing quite well. I know I have said it several times already, but at the risk of being repetitive and annoying, THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who offered help and words of advice and encouragement, it is thanks to YOU that she is doing so well!
There is a little bit of heat around the wound, but not much. I have been applying a mint/lavender/eucalyptus salve (for swelling and trauma related wounds in humans) to the area, and spraying the wound itself with blu-kote to keep it clean and dry. The sugar scab is doing a great job, it looks better than I thought it would just a week later.
I am still giving her banamine and PenG, she is getting tired of me pricking her in the shoulder 4 times a day, and the skin on her shoulders where I am poking her is kind of hard, like it's callused. Is that normal? Is there anything I can do about it? I try not to prick the same spot over and over again, but there's only so much skin between her 2 shoulders, and I have been taught that the shoulder is the only safe place for IM injections in goats.
Also, her lower legs are kind of scabby and her skin is very dry, especially on her legs. She was just treated for mites with ivomec plus a few weeks ago (the whole herd was). Could this dry skin be a reaction to the penicillin?
Aside from those 2 things, she is doing great
