Have you lost a baby disbudding??

[OneFineAcre]

How long after they were disbudded did she die
I looked back through your thread and can't put the time line together

 

[Southern by choice]

When a burn goes all the way to the ring going from copper to white the white is skull.

That looks awful. How soon after the burn did it look like that? Was something put on it?

The second one The boy doesn't look great either. What is all that extra scab and area outside the left side? (our left)

 

[Marge23]

She was disbudded on monday and both of them looked drowsy for a little while afterwards, but yesterday he was fine and she got worse. We gave her the banamine and she was dead this morning.

 

[Marge23]

It started looking like that about an hour after the procedure and just kept getting worse. the boy has just that little bit of white but not much scabbing. His is mostly copper, but is acting normal. Should I give him anything? Also the vet said they put numbing cream on before performing the procedure. I did put antibiotics on it after we saw the vet about it yesterday.

 

[Pearce Pastures]

That pic does not look normal. A copper ring is what is expected. White is too much. But the gooey look there--not even sure what that is but it is not normal.

 

[Marge23]

Thanks, I will definitely do it myself nextyear!

 

[Onyx]

OMG that looks horrifying. I was already dreading having to disbud but this makes me even more worried. I am so sorry for your loss. I was planning to go to the vet because I do not feel comfortable doing something like this to an animal without sedation, but it's rather horrifying that a vet doing this for 20 years could produce this result. It looks like the skin was burned around the horn buds!

 

[alsea1]

A gal down the road from me lost a goat after disbudding. I don't know what its head looked like, but she described similar behavior.
Makes stuff like this kinda scary for us novice goat people.

 

[babsbag]

Really sorry you lost her, and makes it even worse when you are new to this goat stuff.

My vet lost one of her own kids disbudding so it does happen. She knocks the kids out completely when she does them and she just burned too long. I also wonder if the sedation played a part.

The picture of your doeling looks like it is infected and you said it smelled? It should not smell other than like burnt hair, but not a nasty smell. I wouldn't like seeing all that white, that is too deep in my opinion. I did my own for the first time this year and I am sure there will be scurs as I didn't hold it for very long and even then I was worried. I only take them to my vet if I get a bad scur on a doeling or if there is one that didn't get done in time. She will cut them off and do bigger buds than I can burn.

I don't usually ice them, but I think I will start doing it in the middle of the burn, I like that idea.

 

[samssimonsays]

This scares me a lot... Not even having mine yet freaks me out.. I am not sure I want to disbud now... Maybe I will find a breeder near by instead of going to the vet if I do... I always thought the vet would be a safe option if they were a livestock vet familiar with it. Flukes happen though right? I mean, I run the risk of a rabbit breaking their backs when I tattoo them but have not so far out of the almost 10 years of raising them.