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09/05/12, 02:26 PM
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HELP!! Udder injury!!!
She just came back from pasture with the rest of my girls, I have no idea what she cut it open on. She *IS* nursing babies, they are big enough I can pull them if needed.
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09/05/12, 02:44 PM
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Wash it well, preferably with an antibacterial wash. Apply antibiotic ointment or gel VERY sparingly to the inside and edges of the skin. Use medical tape to painstakingly cut small strips to butterfly it closed. If necessary, you can superglue problem edges as well.
Put a clean, gauze pad over all of that and tape the bejeebus out of it to keep it on, to keep dirt away from your handiwork. If you have Blu-Kote, you can spray it afterwards in leui of that gauze pad.
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09/05/12, 02:49 PM
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Im going to err on the side of caution for its location and just take her for stitches.
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09/05/12, 03:02 PM
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She who waits....
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Makes perfect sense. I always assume that a person has some sort of vet trouble (doesn't have one that will treat goats, one not nearby, after hours, whatever) and that what they seek is help in treating a problem themselves.
~smiles~ Otherwise, all of my answers would be "Take her to the vet." 
Good luck with her!
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09/05/12, 03:09 PM
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My vet that does treat goats is closed today. I called and begged a different one to put some stitches in her.
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09/05/12, 03:12 PM
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Poor baby!! I hope it heals well!
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09/05/12, 03:26 PM
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Had a ewe that had been chased through briars by a dog and received a similar injury on Thanksgiving day. The vet was closed so we washed the wound with iodine/bactine and superglued her back together best we could. We tried butterfly strips, but couldn't get them to stick well. We separated her from the flock and repeated the bactine wash and touching up the superglue daily for probably 2 weeks, she recovered fine and has raised 4 lambs since. There was a firm knot in the udder around the injury, but it never felt fevered, leaked pus, or appeared particularly red, so we left it alone and it seems to have resolved for the most part (we don't handle her on a regular basis).
I would pull the kids, as having heads rammed into her udder will not help anything (if she even lets them), but she may need to be milked out a little to keep her udder from getting overfull. Of course, any vet advise would supercede ther previous statements.
In retrospect, I am very glad we did what we did and it worked out. A vet bill would have probably exceeded the value of the animal and the possible array of medications a vet may have administered would have ruined the meat for human consumption (my back up plan if the udder would not heal).
Hope it works out okay!
Last edited by Silvercreek Farmer; 09/05/12 at 03:29 PM.
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09/05/12, 03:47 PM
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My doe has a very similar injury on her teat. Did exactly like Caliann said and really used the superglue. I couldn't keep a dressing on it cause she would take it off but the superglue really worked and I would reapply it as needed and I milked every 4 hours around the clock f.or 7 days and then every 8 hours for 4 days and then back to every 12. I did put the babies back on her by the time I was back to every 8 hour milking, they hated the bottle. She healed up fine
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09/05/12, 03:59 PM
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She who waits....
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The butterfly bandages are really there only to keep to together so you can superglue it.
Superglue was invented for military use to replace stitches in battlefield applications.
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09/05/12, 05:08 PM
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Vet stapled her back together, gave her a shot of Baytril, told me to give the Tetanus antitoxin - she is all set. Said let her nurse her babies ifn she wants to (I'm sure she will, she was letting them nurse when I went out to load her up.)
I think I'm going to have to get me some of them skin staplers!
Most things I would have just treated myself. I wasn't comfortable trying to take care of this one so opted for the vet.
Last edited by FrogTacos; 09/05/12 at 05:12 PM.
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09/05/12, 05:16 PM
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She who waits....
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When it comes to accident, gashes, gouges, etc., I *much* prefer letting the vet handle it if at all possible. I'll do it if I have to, but I feel more comfortable with letting her do it.
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09/05/12, 05:27 PM
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All set!
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09/05/12, 06:08 PM
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That looks much better! Skin staplers are always a nice item to keep on hand.
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09/05/12, 07:40 PM
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Poor girl! Hope it heals up nicely.
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09/05/12, 09:40 PM
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Poor Baby. Do you get to take the staples out or does she have to go back to the vets?
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09/05/12, 09:47 PM
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BTW- When you said you wanted to get pictures of your goats on my post, well, this isn't quite what I was expecting.
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09/05/12, 09:50 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by andabigmac
BTW- When you said you wanted to get pictures of your goats on my post, well, this isn't quite what I was expecting.
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It isn't what I was wanting for pictures either!
The vet said I can either bring her in for removal or stop by and borrow her remover.
Have already put the disposable staplers on my "buy" list!
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09/06/12, 06:38 AM
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Looks like the vet did a great job closing her up. Hope she heals up well & fast too.
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09/06/12, 08:03 AM
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Oh that looks much better!
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