Rough day....Doodle update, page 7

[phoenixmama]

Sounds like a good night to make some fudge...

Then pour yourself some wine. Hope tomorrow's better...

 

[Our7Wonders]

How awful. I'm so sorry. Some days just suck. Here's a hug for you--> And cyber fudge has been sent as well.

Is Doddle's absess an internal one? I'm assuming that it is since it can't be lanced and drained like the others.

Hope things turn around quickly for you and all your critters make a speedy recovery.

 

[mossyStone]

I am so sorry your plate is getting ful with all these issues.... But i know you will do what is best for all....

Hang in there......

 

[Roll farms]

I feel sorry for my dh today....I have to leave for work soon, and he'll be bottle feeding all the kids, milking all the does, administering medicine to the cavy (who'm he's afraid of...lol), feeding, and then dealing w/ Doodle once everyone else is squared away.

Is Doodle's absess an internal one? I'm assuming that it is since it can't be lanced and drained like the others.

One half of her udder is now an abscess. Instead of milk, you get the infection out.
I've not been able to find any info on that happening 'normally', and never had a doe get it "in" the udder before. The vet and I agree it had to have happened during the lancing / biopsy last fall.

I am hoping it 'kills' that half of the udder, like a case of untreated mastitis will.

Right now she's in isolation, w/ teat tape over the 'bad' side, and we're waiting until everyone else has been dealt with, then milking out the good side, feeding it to the cats, draining what we can out of the bad side, and she's on antibiotics. I'm trying to dry her off as fast as I can.

If we don't remove her udder, this will be a recurring issue that I don't want to deal with. She'll still have CL, of course...but an isolated abscess is much easier to lance / sterilize / heal up than an udder leaking the bacteria out is.

I mean...she can't ever enter my pasture again like this...and being penned up for life isn't fair to her.


We're sterilizing everything and changing clothes and all that, it's a huge hassle and that's why I was going to put her down...but to look at her, she's FINE. And sooo loving. Just a joy to be around.

I cannot do it. I can't look her in the eye and justify putting her down to myself.

The truly sad part of it is she has a BEAUTIFUL udder, and is making 5# of milk out of the good side....she would have broken our production records this year.

Thanks for the support. I had some chocolate chip cookies...that helped.

 

[lilhill]

So very sorry you're having to deal with all this.

 

[20kidsonhill]

I'm sorry.

 

[SDGsoap&dairy]

I am so sorry Roll.

 

[Emmetts Dairy]

Poor Doddle

Can the vet remove that udder for her??? That would be a blessing.

Keep the faith!!! Im sorry your going through this!

 

[jodief100]

My deepest sympathies. I know how much Doodle means to you. I really hope everything tuns out OK.

 

[Lady Jane]

I am so sorry you are going through all of this Rolls. Hope things turn up for you soon