Remember my lumpy goat? It's spreading to others!

[Livinwright Farm]

Sting lumps can stick around for a few months IF the stinger is still in there...

I know the plight of not having a vet near by... I am glad that we finally found one within 2 hrs drive... but if they weren't willing to work with us, I don't know what we would do.... Do you have a college in your state that has an agricultural extension? If so, they might be able to take and test whatever you are able to get to them... I know UNH's Ag. Ext. can do stuff like that... just a thought.

 

[Ariel301]

Well, we got brave and cut into one of the lumps last night, this one was on top of the shoulder blade of a yearling doe. The skin had cracked on it and started to bleed, so we got in there with a scalpel, and found...something. It was deep, down inside the muscle itself instead of under the skin, once we got it out we were pretty much down to the bone of the scapula! We got a big ball of dark gray stuff out that looked and felt about like modeling clay, nothing like what I've seen before from CL lumps. Unfortunately I forgot to take a photo, but I'll cut open another one and document it, and I'm going to send a sample of this stuff off. Yuck!

 

[Goatmasta]

I would cut another one out and not cut it open and send the whole thing in. That will give you the best possible test results.

 

[elieugene6]

I don't know to much about goat problems and I don't know if this is it. I have been watching this post for awhile now. I just happened to think of this old book I have had for years. 1984 yearbook of agriculture animal health. I looked in it and under abscesses is this is listed as the most common cause of abscesses. Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis (ovis) when googling these pages came up:

http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/10801.htm ---I like this one best

http://web.mst.edu/~microbio/BIO221_2010/C_pseudotuberculosis.html


http://www.johnes.org/handouts/files/Manning_CLA_JD_ELISA.pdf

 

[redtailgal]

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[aggieterpkatie]

Was the gray stuff a lymph node?

 

[Pearce Pastures]

Was the gray stuff a lymph node?

x2 That is what I was thinking too (flashback to college dissecting lab).

 

[arabianequine]

I surely hope they are not in pain from you cutting on them, I would leave that job up to a vet myself.

 

[Cornerstoneacres]

I know this is a SUPER old thread, but wondering if the OP is still around and wondering what they found out?

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

I know this is a SUPER old thread, but wondering if the OP is still around and wondering what they found out?

X2.

Also I don't see why you couldn't just send it to UC Davis, I send all my blood/ tests/ etc there.... I know your in AZ, but still....