Dis-budded Buckling with Infection

[cjhubbs]

Hey Everyone,
I posted earleir this week that I had taken my goats buckling to be disbudded and was worrying about apparent swolleness in their faces near their eyes. Well one of the bucklings appears to be okay but the other has blood and gree/yellow puss like substances oozing from where one of its horn buds were. I will attach some pictures to this page but was wondering what I should do for the buckling? He is acting a little tired right now but has been acting okay all day. We probably should bring him to the vet is my thinking but we have already had a few issues including this incident with this clinic in the past.

 

[OneFineAcre]

That is awful looking. It is absolutely positively not supposed to look like that.

You will need to clean that with an antiseptic wound cleaner and treat with antibiotics.

Clean wound area with Chlorhexodine.

I think LA 200 you can get from Tractor supply or a farm store would be the best antibiotic

Let me ask one question. How old was the buckling and how much horn had grown? Did they have to actually remove some horn? The horn grows down into the nasal passage, did it open into the nasal passage when they removed?

We had that happen one time. We were not very good at disbudding at the time, hopefully we are better. We had to get the vet re-do a couple when they had about 1 to 1-1/4" of horn. Opened into a nasal passage one one side of one of them. It got infected. We took her to the vet school, and our vet met us there. Sedated her so they could flush really well, and gave a shot of antibiotics and she was fine.

If that is the case you will need to flush the nasal cavity with Chlorhexodine.

But yours looks worse, it is definitely infected.

You need to do this now.

 

[sprocket]

Have you used this vet for disbudding before? What method did they use to disbud?

 

[rebelINny]

omg what a botch job!!! I disbud my own kids and they never ever look like that. Just a nice neat little circle around the horn. I would NOT go back to whoever did that! Definitely antibiotics and clean it thoroughly!!!

 

[cjhubbs]

Thanks for the response. We cleaned the wound area last night and will run out and get some LA 200 and Chlorhexodine in a few minutes. We ended up calling the vet and they said everything should be fine as long as we clean the wound out including all puss and then to give him a dose of LA 200 as a precaution. The buckling was about a week and a half old when he was dis-budded.

 

[SuburbanFarmChic]

Um, if he didn't have CDT... I would consider adding tetanus antitoxin to the mix. They tend to kick the disbudding wounds when they itch and that is a straight poo to wound round right there.

 

[cjhubbs]

I have not used this vet before for dis-budding but we have for other things. They used a dis-budding iron.

 

[sprocket]

I have not used this vet before for dis-budding but we have for other things. They used a dis-budding iron.

I asked because for an iron, it's an exceptionally bad job. We do our own kids too, and like rebelINny said, they never ever look like that. I feel so bad for your little fella and I hope it all works out in the end.

 

[cjhubbs]

Yeah I would have dis-budded them myself but I had never seen it done and only had one preggo doe and it was cheaper to have the vet do it then by the supplies. The thing that annoys me is that this clinic specializes in livestock particularly goats and the owner of the clinic has his own herd which are very well cared for. However it was a different Dr. whom dis-budded our goats. I guess I will either buy the disbudding iron myself or ask for Dr. Simon to dis-bud next year. At least the buckling is acting normal, he was prancing around the pen earlier and eating browse which was really cute .

 

[20kidsonhill]

We dont disbud, but I would have chosen Procain G shots twice a day for an infection and cover the skin with neomycin ointment. Honestly, if you called the same vet, they may be trying to cover themselves and not make it sound serious. But to me it looks very infected.
I would give more than one LA 200 shot, Maybe 1 shot every other day for 3 treatments and keep pointing antibiotics on the open sores.