Post by donnaclyde47 on Jun 17, 2022 13:27:19 GMT -5
The LSU vets came out on Monday to dehorn my month-old calf, Falana. Everything went fine. A few hours later my son told me there was blood everywhere. She must have bonked her head on the wall of the area we have her in, which is a 10x12 “lean-to” connected to where I milk at the barn.
It had quit bleeding, but it looked like a horror movie. The whole left side of her face was covered in blood, and it was splattered some on her body. I had to put my big girl panties on and tie her up, clean it gently, and then I put gauze over the site and wrapped it with my daughter’s three-inch headband. Shew!
The next morning I went in to milk, and she was all good. Then that evening I came out again, and it was bloody. So this time I got my 11 year-old daughter to help (I am soooo queasy!) and we cleaned her again, poured a bit of cornstarch on it (per my vet friend) and wrapped her head with an Ace bandage.
So the Ace bandage went on Tuesday night, I believe.
It was sort of long - and it’s hot out - so I’ve cut some loose and now it’s just once piece laying over both horns, with a tiny blood probably keeping it stuck. Do I just leave it and let it fall off by itself, or pull it away gently?
This is the worst dehorning we’ve had. I’d like to build a padded room just so this doesn’t happen again. My husband wondered if we should stop having LSU vets do it (they killed a little doeling by burning too far) but it’s just bad luck when it bleeds, right? Because the calf bumps into things? It wasn’t bleeding when they left.
It had quit bleeding, but it looked like a horror movie. The whole left side of her face was covered in blood, and it was splattered some on her body. I had to put my big girl panties on and tie her up, clean it gently, and then I put gauze over the site and wrapped it with my daughter’s three-inch headband. Shew!
The next morning I went in to milk, and she was all good. Then that evening I came out again, and it was bloody. So this time I got my 11 year-old daughter to help (I am soooo queasy!) and we cleaned her again, poured a bit of cornstarch on it (per my vet friend) and wrapped her head with an Ace bandage.
So the Ace bandage went on Tuesday night, I believe.
It was sort of long - and it’s hot out - so I’ve cut some loose and now it’s just once piece laying over both horns, with a tiny blood probably keeping it stuck. Do I just leave it and let it fall off by itself, or pull it away gently?
This is the worst dehorning we’ve had. I’d like to build a padded room just so this doesn’t happen again. My husband wondered if we should stop having LSU vets do it (they killed a little doeling by burning too far) but it’s just bad luck when it bleeds, right? Because the calf bumps into things? It wasn’t bleeding when they left.