Goat with huge lump under ear- possible tumor - Graphic picture added

[bonbean01]

Back when I was a kid living on the farm, I do remember seeing something like this on a cow once...very gross and my Dad flushing it he took a sample to the vet...no disease...but Dad gave antibiotic shots...after it was almost healed guess what worked its way through and came sticking out???? A mangled large fox tail...guess it ate it, lodged in there after much grossness, it worked itself out.

 

[babsbag]

I am waiting for something to come out if it didn't already and I just missed it. The vet said the abscess was about 3" deep. I am thinking that something had to cause it. There was a lot of draining and necrotic tissue the week in between vet visits and there was definitely gunk that came out that I didn't inspect up close and personal.

I am just thankful that he is healing and that it wasn't CL. While it is a manageable disease, it isn't manageable in my herd or in the herds I share breeding stock with. We are all very adamant about testing and selling clean animals so he would have had to go, and then we would have had to try and figure out the entry point. I have enough to deal with without that right now.

 

[melody]

Thank you for this ongoing education.
One of my nigerians has just developed a mass that has shown up on her neck near her fore-shoulder. Not enlarging or very slowly if at all. About 1/2 golf ball size. softish...and does not trouble her even when I touch it. Keeping a watch but they are due for a vet visit soon.

 

[babsbag]

My buck has healed up just fine. I did another 4 days of Pen G but not really sure that he needed it. The bacteria they cultured out of the abscess was Proteus which my vet says is usually not sensitive to Pen. She is thinking that maybe just cleaning it out gave his body a chance to fight it on its own.

Either way I am glad it is gone. He is still in isolation but only because his buck pen mate is supposed to be servicing my does. Whoever said that boers are not seasonal breeders doesn't know my boer buck. He is not interested in the least in these ladies right now. I wonder if they make testosterone for goats :/

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

It isn't CL

The abscess looks good and is closing up. The vet never found anything in it so where it came from is anyone's guess but so glad it isn't CL.

I had the same thing happen... a reoccurring abscess in one of my goats lymph nodes... had it drained and flush and tested by the vet, NOT CL, culture came back as a gram anaerobic bacterium. She had got a cut on her cheek and the infection must have moved it's way to her lymphatic system. It swelled back up and I flushed it again, this time it cleared up for good. I also had her blood tested for CL twice while all this was happening. NOT CL. My vet said goats can get abscesses pretty easily, foxtails, sticks, even pieces of hay... Well anywho, glad that's all it was on your boy too!

 

[babsbag]

It isn't CL

The abscess looks good and is closing up. The vet never found anything in it so where it came from is anyone's guess but so glad it isn't CL.

I had the same thing happen... a reoccurring abscess in one of my goats lymph nodes... had it drained and flush and tested by the vet, NOT CL, culture came back as a gram anaerobic bacterium. She had got a cut on her cheek and the infection must have moved it's way to her lymphatic system. It swelled back up and I flushed it again, this time it cleared up for good. I also had her blood tested for CL twice while all this was happening. NOT CL. My vet said goats can get abscesses pretty easily, foxtails, sticks, even pieces of hay... Well anywho, glad that's all it was on your boy too!

Glad you aren't dealing with CL either. I spent a few nervous day trying to figure out where this would have come from. Glad I can close that book. I have had other goats with abscesses, usually lower on the jaw where they probably bit their cheek or got a sticker. This was in the classis CL spot so it had me a little freaked for a bit; dang these animals.