Aliens returned my vet to earth.....

[TeenyTinyFarm]

Actually she got slammed with emergencies last week that's why is took several day for her to get back to me about disbudding and BoSe script. Anywho...she just left my place from disbudding Millie and Oreo. Actually Millie was probably more of a dehorning. Oreo is 9 weeks old and Millie is about 8. Both are Nigerian dwarfs. Millie is the white one and Oreo is the black and white one. Here are the before pics....



The vet gave both a nerve block and sedative. They were limp noodles the whole time. Millie's horns had to be cut off and then burned. She also got a shot of pen-g. Both got their CD&T and Tetanus ant-toxin. Here are the after pics....

[trnubian]

Looking good

[Frosted Mini's]

Are you sure that Oreo is not polled? She should have a point sticking through at 8 weeks old, and all I see were bumps (which polled goats can also have). I think you might have just had a polled goat disbudded. What's with her one floppy ear, kind of cute, but just wondering?

[Goatsandsheep]

Are you sure that Oreo is not polled?

I was wondering that too.

[Awnry Abe]

Saying "I was slammed" is just an excuse. She was at the Elvis concert.

Don't vets to the best shave jobs? I wish I had their skill.

Oreo looks interesting. Her pink ear looks like a cannoli.

[Suzyq2u]

Originally Posted by Goatsandsheep

I was wondering that too.

me three. I thought maybe I just couldn't see them
because I'm on a small screen... : /


ETA I'd love to see a full pic of them both, I bet they're cuties

[TeenyTinyFarm]

I had wondered if Oreo was polled, but I had never seen one before, so left it to the vet to make the call. His bumps had grown in the three weeks I have had him. This little guy is developmentally behind where he should be and is growing far slower than he should be so that may explain why his horns are so slow to grow.

Oh and I shaved their heads, lol!

[Suzyq2u]

You did a good shave job.
& you won't have to worry about horns coming in just in case later.
I'd bet oreo was polled (about 75% of ours are here) and their horns
are pretty well emerged by 2 weeks if they aren't...in fact our bucks
we can start to feel horns within a few days.
BUT you know your goats and know the risk you'd be taking for
yourself (and oreo) should she develop any later.

How are those cuties feeling today?

[Goatsandsheep]

I got a small clipper to shave around horns with, runs on 1 AA battery. Easier to use on little heads and teats.

http://www.amazon.com/Wahl-9961-210-...nimal+clippers

[TeenyTinyFarm]

Both cuties are back to normal. Millie is jumping on the goat house like nothing ever happened. Gave her a shot of banamine this am just because. Don't think she really needed it, so I doubt I will be repeating it tonight.

I had plenty of practice shaving and clipping for disbudding, udders for milking, whole goats for showing ugh! I pulled out the dog clippers for this. Worked quite nice. Nobody put up too much of a fuss.

[GraceAlice]

Did the skin wiggle on top of the horn buds? If you can't move the skin, then he is horned. If the skin did wiggle, he is polled.

[TeenyTinyFarm]

Originally Posted by GraceAlice

Did the skin wiggle on top of the horn buds? If you can't move the skin, then he is horned. If the skin did wiggle, he is polled.

I can't say I ever did that myself. (Like I said, I have never had experience with polled goats, I would have never known that wiggle in the skin indicated it.) the vet manipulated the heads of both kids very well before she even plugged in the iron and she said they were horn buds.

[harvestmoonfarm]

Do you have them on coccidia prevention? Coccidiosis can keep them small and unthrifty.

[TeenyTinyFarm]

Originally Posted by harvestmoonfarm

Do you have them on coccidia prevention? Coccidiosis can keep them small and unthrifty.

Yes. Second round starts tomorrow.