Just when you think you have seen it all…
May 4, 2022 11:38:45 GMT -5
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Post by mollymoo on May 4, 2022 11:38:45 GMT -5
It’s been one of those years…after over 15 years raising goats, I feel like I’ve seen most of the diseases and mishaps that you expect to see in goats…but they never fail to come up with new and exciting ways to prove me wrong…
It was about three weeks ago now that we were working goats in the barn. My son was chasing one unwilling doe to catch her in one area of the barn - and another doe - in a totally separate pen (with neither of us close to her) freaked out and jumped through the glass window out of her stall. She had a gash on her side, with a sliver of glass poking out that I promptly removed - and an injury to one of her eyes. We managed to catch her - get her penned up again and sloshed iodine liberally over the injury on her abdomen. It was fairly superficial and didn’t worry me too much. I felt around her eye and couldn’t feel any glass in there (there was maybe something hard but it felt like the bone of her eye socket). Put terramycin ointment in the eye and covered it with a gauze pad and vet wrap - and gave her a shot of LA200 for good measure. She was due to kid in a month, so I didn’t want to trailer her to the vet and figured we’d see how she did.
This is the pic I sent to the vet about 5 days later when she wasn’t improving to ask for advice, a stronger antibiotic and some banamine. The we gave her the shot/oral pain meds/anti inflammatory and two days later the swelling had gone down…so that I could see that there was actually about a half inch of glass protruding from the back of her eye socket 🙄
I called the vet (it was a Saturday morning of course) and she told me we had to try to get the glass out - or else bring her in to be sedated for them to remove it. Still worried about stressing a heavily pregnant doe, I had my husband and my son restrain her, donned some gloves and went for it…
I could not believe what came out!!!
The narrow end was the piece sticking out…that poor goat had this piece of glass in her eye for over a week! I felt awful 😢
Upon vets advice I gave her penicillin and meloxicam tabs for pain over the next few days…and remarkably she has continued eating drinking and pooping normally throughout (I have given probiotics too). She’s about a week away from kidding now (due around the 14th May) and seems OK! Not sure if she can see out of the injured eye - it’s still cloudy but seems to be healing. She’ll stay penned on her own now til after she kids anyway (she can see her goat buddies and is enjoying getting fed individually!)
I’m telling you…just when you think you’ve seen it all…
It was about three weeks ago now that we were working goats in the barn. My son was chasing one unwilling doe to catch her in one area of the barn - and another doe - in a totally separate pen (with neither of us close to her) freaked out and jumped through the glass window out of her stall. She had a gash on her side, with a sliver of glass poking out that I promptly removed - and an injury to one of her eyes. We managed to catch her - get her penned up again and sloshed iodine liberally over the injury on her abdomen. It was fairly superficial and didn’t worry me too much. I felt around her eye and couldn’t feel any glass in there (there was maybe something hard but it felt like the bone of her eye socket). Put terramycin ointment in the eye and covered it with a gauze pad and vet wrap - and gave her a shot of LA200 for good measure. She was due to kid in a month, so I didn’t want to trailer her to the vet and figured we’d see how she did.
This is the pic I sent to the vet about 5 days later when she wasn’t improving to ask for advice, a stronger antibiotic and some banamine. The we gave her the shot/oral pain meds/anti inflammatory and two days later the swelling had gone down…so that I could see that there was actually about a half inch of glass protruding from the back of her eye socket 🙄
I called the vet (it was a Saturday morning of course) and she told me we had to try to get the glass out - or else bring her in to be sedated for them to remove it. Still worried about stressing a heavily pregnant doe, I had my husband and my son restrain her, donned some gloves and went for it…
I could not believe what came out!!!
The narrow end was the piece sticking out…that poor goat had this piece of glass in her eye for over a week! I felt awful 😢
Upon vets advice I gave her penicillin and meloxicam tabs for pain over the next few days…and remarkably she has continued eating drinking and pooping normally throughout (I have given probiotics too). She’s about a week away from kidding now (due around the 14th May) and seems OK! Not sure if she can see out of the injured eye - it’s still cloudy but seems to be healing. She’ll stay penned on her own now til after she kids anyway (she can see her goat buddies and is enjoying getting fed individually!)
I’m telling you…just when you think you’ve seen it all…