disbudding emergency!!

Obviously something has gone wrong. I would take something to the head, veggy brush etc, and scrub the head well. Redisbud, make sure it is super hot, and then spray with fural. What did you spray the heads with afterwards? I woud also put her on an antibiotic and use banamine for the pain. One year my husband grabbed a spray container for screw worms and sprayed the heads, we had this happen in a group of sold kids. I scrubbed the heads, redisbudded, sprayed with fural, gave everyone some naxcel and banamine for the pain. They were over it in about 24 hours so they only got 3 injections. Vicki

 

I would also check her temp. I'm trying to envision where the pus would be coming from as everything should be cauterized.

 

To deep of burn will bring actual fluid surronding the brain to the surface and makes the head weep. Cauterising it will stop it.

Antibiotics because her fever will spike...then if she has neurological sypmtoms you add dexamethazone for the brain welling.

Without excellent nursing...tubing, subq fluids, antiobiotics, steroids, a young kid can't live through this menengitis.

We will just hope she sprayed something crazy like we did on the hornbuds which made them soften and weep. Vicki

 

thank goodness you had some experienced help around. : ) thats great.
Sherrie

 

Did you make sure you gave her a tetanus antitoxin shot? Definitely want to do that. Glad she is feeling better.

 

I was holding my breath when reading this topic. So glad she is doing better. I think I can breathe again now.

-Kim

 

I believe that it is the tetanus ANTITOXIN that you want to give before disbudding, not a toxoid...

 

Yep I use the Tetanus antitoxin before disbudding the CD/T takes 3 weeks to work. She will need the antitoxin for instant protection.

 

I am soooo glad I leave my horns on.

 

DITTO.. This is very important any time you do something like disbudding, tattooing, castration. Especially in the one that is having the oozing. Just run up to the feed store and get a little bottle of Tetanus Antitoxin and give at least 1.5cc shot IM to it. This is a perfect scenario for Tetanus to set up.

 

Oh, come on now.. it's not that hard all the time ! :crazy As for disbudding, practice makes perfect. Don't let this one instance get you down! :nooo
The one goat I left horns on, a young wether, when he got older (and not quite a year) started using them on the does that wouldn't let him near the feeder. I could just see a torn udder, and that vision made it easy for me to load him up and haul him to the packers. I will gladly burn little heads! :rofl

 

That's so true. The benefits of those clean heads outweigh the disbudding event itself. One of my dairy does one time ran through an open gate that our son left open across the dairy barn and out into the boer goat pen where she promptly was jugged in the back of the udder by the queen Boer. Ripped a triangle tear about the size of a 50 cent piece out of the back of her udder in about half a second. I hate horns. When I get ready to disbud some kids I pull up my tetanus antitoxin in a syringe however many kids I am going to do I have a separate syringe for each kid. Stick them down in a baggie with an ice pack. As I bring the kids in to be disbudded I shave their little heads, pop them with the tetanus antitoxin shot and then disbud. It's easy... no biggie. And it isn't too late to give this little one a shot, but I would do it today. Hang in there. You're a great goat mama.

 

"I'm leaving all the horns on everything else out there"

Disbudding gets easier and better each time.

The pain and trauma is far shorter lived for a goat (AND for you) than getting caught in a fence and strangling or having your head ripped off by a dog as happened to a valuable buck of ours when he got caught by his scurs in the cattlepanel

 

yep leaving horns on is just a disaster waiting to happen I have one with horns a buck and on accident he has hit me near my eyes twice. NOT a good thing.

 

Banding is a lot more drawn out for the goat-disbudding seems horrible but it is over quickly. One second they act like your killing them, then their running around playing!

Just as an aside, I don't do anti-toxin when I disbud. My mentor who taught me years ago didn't and I've never had a problem of any kind. You probably don't need to worry about the other kids. Of course if something weird like oozing started I'd probably run get some-I've only done about 30 kids so I'm probably technically still an amateur!