Buttercup's Leg Injury

[ksalvagno]

You guys are babies! Unless you got the green stuff in your ears, hair, eyes and all over your face, that is NOTHING! Be happy they don't spit like alpacas/llamas.

 

[cmjust0]

 

[Ariel301]

Hahaha I've got a face-burper too! Flora loves to do that when she is on the milk stand, she reaches around to me for a kiss, and then either slurps my face with her tongue or burps...then she wags her tail at me with this mischievious look on her face...lol I like to see if I can get guests to fall for her trick.

Your little girl is looking better, good job on getting her all fixed up! I would avoid much use of peroxide in the future on wounds though, as it slows down healing. It kills bacteria by breaking down their cell walls--which it will also do to new cells trying to fill in the damaged area around the wound. Use it only as a last resort if you have nothing else on hand, I prefer to wash wounds with iodine or betadine, and failing that, plain old salt water works good, even if it does have a good sting to it.

 

[stano40]

My wife only used peroxide once. She prefers to wash with either a iodine solution or a saline solution. We're still doing the wet bandage with saline solution since that has worked the best. We even tried leaving the bandage off for a day to get air to the wound but the leg started to swell again.

So the infection is still there and the bandage wrap is helping to keep down the selling and for buttercup to use her leg and hoof more.

bob