Does this look like CL?

[Egg_Newton]

She is the newest addition to my herd and I brought her home against my better judgement. I just felt so sorry for her. I have a few posts on here about her already. She was wormy, underweight, and very overgrown hooves. She has been in quarantine this whole time because of the lump and worms. The lump is semi-hard and losing hair now. We plan on lancing and flushing tomorrow and sending pus off for testing. I do al lot of my own medical care myself (shots, wound care, etc) but this will be my first lancing.
I want to make sure I have everything I need and do it correctly. I was thinking of using the formaldine but want to lance and test first to confirm whether it is CL or not.
I have my oh so lucky boyfriend hold her down on a tarp or plastic sheet, cut an X on the cyst using a sterile scapel, remove all the pus putting it in a specimen container to be sent off for testing, flush with alcohol, wait 5 minutes, flush with water, then flush wound and surrounding area with iodine. I was thinking of also packing wound with gauze dipped in iodine. I had read that on here too. Here is where I have questions. Do I need to change the packing? If so how often. Do I need to wrap it to keep her from scratching it or getting it infected?
Oh then I burn all gloves, paper towels, and anything else used in the process.

 

[Southern by choice]

Procedure is correct although I would not do an X. A straight line (down) will heal better and faster, also I would not pack it. It is already sealed off so infection would be highly unlikely. The most important thing here is that the wound must be completely healed over, not just scabbed over, before putting her in with any goats. Burn everything-yes.

Submitting the contents will definitely confirm, however if you do a blood draw you will get the titer levels. I think that is very important as the titer levels can tell you if the CL is internal. Yes, internal CL can produce external lumps or no lumps at all. You can have a goat with a lump with lower titers and that shows you it is more "external" CL.

She may never have another lump again and so that is why getting the titers is important.

A goat that shows no lumps but has a titer >= 1:256 are usually internal
A goat that has a titer 1:16 is positive yet may have or not have a lump.

If your other goats are tested and all neg I would not keep this girl.

Sorry you are going through all this, its so hard when all you are trying to do is help an animal.

 

[Egg_Newton]

If she Is positive. I plan on breeding her to my buck, keep one of her girls(hopefully) and give her away to someone who already gas a CL positive hers and would want her. I really hate to. She us such a sweet girl.

 

[OneFineAcre]

Egg_Newton,

Sorry to hear what you are going through. I wish I had some advice to give, but I don't have any experience with this type of thing.

Sounds like you've been given good advice.

Good Luck.

 

[Southern by choice]

Just wondering how your girl was doing.

 

[Egg_Newton]

Lancing was very traumatic for all three of us. I was too big of a sissy to cut into it, the concrete slab was killing my boyfriends knees, and poor Straberry was shaking like a leaf. So, he and I switched places, I held, he cut and Strawberry continued to cry and shake. She wouldn't let me near her for days. It has been 10 days and she finally will let me touch her again but still not overly firiendly. I really don't blame her with all the shots, worming, and lancing she has gotten in the past couple months. My sample I was saving to send for testing froze and wasn't very much because he squeezed it all into the paper towel instead of the specimen container. So, going to have to wait and see if another one pops up to have it tested and probably have to take her to the vet to have it lanced, because my boyfriend's exact words were "never again". lol. She looks so much better tho. Her incision in almost healed , her coat in better, she is putting on some nice weight, and her belly doesn't hang to her knees. I cleaned up her bottom too. It almost looks like she has poop pellets sticking to her? Never seen her with scours or even dog log type poo. She has a few more days of healing then I'm going to do another fecal and hopefully she will be able to rejoin the other girls and be bred in the spring!