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CM, sounds great in theory....but in practice it didn't work.
She's been on erythromycin, injected and shot straight in the udder via teat infusions. She's been on about every antibiotic known to man trying to clear it up.
Right after she kidded, the area w/ the 1st lump that caused the whole problem started to swell up again. And now...it has 2 little sister lumps growing. Dr. B. says he's never seen / heard of anything like it.
Almost like the harder we try to kill it, the more rampant it gets...like the infection IN the udder is now trying to come out through the back / side of the udder on the affected half...That's a little to SciFi channel for me.
I think maybe the Lymphatic System around her udder's gone haywire from the added blood flow at freshening...I induced her labor w/ lut (so I could be SURE to be there / catch the kids) so maybe that helped make it worse...I dunno.
I'm waiting for them to get 'ripe' before I do anything to them, b/c if you bust them too soon, they'll just fill back up again....this I know from past experience.
I am still milking out / tossing the milk from the good side, decreasing frequency in an effort to dry her off...which isn't going so well b/c she's a GOOD producer.
NOTHING will come out of the 'bad' side, and if I even act like I'm going to touch it, she goes all "kung fu panda" on me.
That half is slowly shrinking, so maybe it is 'dying' which is what the vet and I hope for. Get the other side to quit being "Best producing half an udder, 2011" and *maybe* we can cut it off and get her healed up before fly season.
She is sooo tired of being cooped up / alone, I try to spend a lot of time w/ her and take her for walks (in the yard, not the pasture) but I feel like I'm being mean to her.
Ad in that I "let" Hillary's post-kidding Barberpole explosion get her this down due to being distracted, and I'm not feeling like a very good goat owner right now.
She's been on erythromycin, injected and shot straight in the udder via teat infusions. She's been on about every antibiotic known to man trying to clear it up.
Right after she kidded, the area w/ the 1st lump that caused the whole problem started to swell up again. And now...it has 2 little sister lumps growing. Dr. B. says he's never seen / heard of anything like it.
Almost like the harder we try to kill it, the more rampant it gets...like the infection IN the udder is now trying to come out through the back / side of the udder on the affected half...That's a little to SciFi channel for me.
I think maybe the Lymphatic System around her udder's gone haywire from the added blood flow at freshening...I induced her labor w/ lut (so I could be SURE to be there / catch the kids) so maybe that helped make it worse...I dunno.
I'm waiting for them to get 'ripe' before I do anything to them, b/c if you bust them too soon, they'll just fill back up again....this I know from past experience.
I am still milking out / tossing the milk from the good side, decreasing frequency in an effort to dry her off...which isn't going so well b/c she's a GOOD producer.
NOTHING will come out of the 'bad' side, and if I even act like I'm going to touch it, she goes all "kung fu panda" on me.
That half is slowly shrinking, so maybe it is 'dying' which is what the vet and I hope for. Get the other side to quit being "Best producing half an udder, 2011" and *maybe* we can cut it off and get her healed up before fly season.
She is sooo tired of being cooped up / alone, I try to spend a lot of time w/ her and take her for walks (in the yard, not the pasture) but I feel like I'm being mean to her.
Ad in that I "let" Hillary's post-kidding Barberpole explosion get her this down due to being distracted, and I'm not feeling like a very good goat owner right now.