Our7Wonders
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How is she tonight? I've been thinking about her all day. I'm so new to this I have no idea how this is treated or how the outcomes usually go - I sure hope she is mending and all is well again soon.
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helmstead
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She is on the mend! Yes, Karen, it was a partial uterine prolapse. Oxytocin, flush with oxytetracyline, systemic oxytet, and banamine stopped the labor overnight and she now looks normal but swollen and is back on her feed.
ksalvagno
Alpaca Master
That's good that she is on the mend. Uterine prolapses are nasty things to deal with.
SDGsoap&dairy
Loving the herd life
That is SCARY! Great job getting her back on track.
julieq
Ridin' The Range
Great job! That's something we've never had to deal with and hopefully won't have to!
Our7Wonders
Overrun with beasties
Glad she's doing better! So is prolapse just a random thing or does it happen with does who have birthed bigger babies or multiple births, etc? It sounds as though she was straining/pushing the uterus. Was she still contracting? Is the oxytocin used to start contractions again, maybe to contract the uterus - tightneing it, to make it easier to get back in place? I understand the flush, obviously for infection and the benamine is for comfort, right? The systemic oxytet then is to keep the uterus nice and tight and hopefully keep it from getting slack again? Sorry for all the questions, I like to gather as much info now, before I'm in need of it later.
Amazing! Did you do all that on your own or did a vet come out? Either way, I'm so very impressed at how knowledgable you and some of the others on here are with your animals. And your post seemed surprisingly calm. I'd be FREAKING OUT!!!! Good job on getting her better!
Again, so glad she's healing!
Amazing! Did you do all that on your own or did a vet come out? Either way, I'm so very impressed at how knowledgable you and some of the others on here are with your animals. And your post seemed surprisingly calm. I'd be FREAKING OUT!!!! Good job on getting her better!
Again, so glad she's healing!
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helmstead
Goat Mistress
This was our first prolapse. Probably won't be our last, these things happen. I don't tend to panic very easily, LOL.
I think this one was a mixture of two things - very small statured doe and
overweight. The baby really is not very big.
Oxytocin was to get the uterus to shrink down. Flush, yeah, obvious. Systemic oxytet (BioMycin) for infection. Banamine for pain and inflammation. All on my own. The closest vet with ANY goat knowledge is over an hour away - but I was a surgical vet tech, so that training has really come in handy with all of my animal husbandry tasks.
We'll have to have her checked out by a repro specialist to see if she's still breeding sound...the risk of a recurring prolapse is really high from what I understand, but this was not a very bad one. We'll see what they have to say at Purdue.
I think this one was a mixture of two things - very small statured doe and
overweight. The baby really is not very big.Oxytocin was to get the uterus to shrink down. Flush, yeah, obvious. Systemic oxytet (BioMycin) for infection. Banamine for pain and inflammation. All on my own. The closest vet with ANY goat knowledge is over an hour away - but I was a surgical vet tech, so that training has really come in handy with all of my animal husbandry tasks.
We'll have to have her checked out by a repro specialist to see if she's still breeding sound...the risk of a recurring prolapse is really high from what I understand, but this was not a very bad one. We'll see what they have to say at Purdue.
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Helmstead,
I am so glad to hear that Butterfly's prolapse was able to be successfully reduced. That is wonderful news. Kudos to being able to take care of the problem yourself too!
I am curious, did you use sugar on the prolapse to reduce tissue edema and make it easier to get things back in place?
Tracy
I am so glad to hear that Butterfly's prolapse was able to be successfully reduced. That is wonderful news. Kudos to being able to take care of the problem yourself too!
I am curious, did you use sugar on the prolapse to reduce tissue edema and make it easier to get things back in place?
Tracy
Our7Wonders
Overrun with beasties
Wow Kate! Kuddos to you - you're my hero!!!!
Oxytet, antibitoic. I get it now, it's short for oxytetra-whatcha-ma-call-it. I was thinking it was a form of oxytocin - the OXY threw me. Makes sense now.
I'm relieved to hear it's your first one. This will be my first kidding season and I don't have a problem admitting that I'm rather nervous about it! I read about all the things that can go wrong and it stresses me out. I tell my self I'm researching so that I can handle a problem IF it arrises - knowledge is power, right? But it has the opposite effect on me. More knowledge is more things to stress over.
Then I have to remember that ninety-some percent of all births go without a hitch. Or so I keep telling myself.
Goats = Stress. And a lot of good things too. But stress for sure.
Give her a hug and tell her I'm thinking about her. Glad she seems to be doing well.
Oxytet, antibitoic. I get it now, it's short for oxytetra-whatcha-ma-call-it. I was thinking it was a form of oxytocin - the OXY threw me. Makes sense now.
I'm relieved to hear it's your first one. This will be my first kidding season and I don't have a problem admitting that I'm rather nervous about it! I read about all the things that can go wrong and it stresses me out. I tell my self I'm researching so that I can handle a problem IF it arrises - knowledge is power, right? But it has the opposite effect on me. More knowledge is more things to stress over.
Then I have to remember that ninety-some percent of all births go without a hitch. Or so I keep telling myself.
Goats = Stress. And a lot of good things too. But stress for sure.
Give her a hug and tell her I'm thinking about her. Glad she seems to be doing well.
ksalvagno
Alpaca Master
You are so lucky to have that vet tech training. I would love to take a vet tech course. Of course I have learned a lot with the alpacas but there are some things that are just beyond my knowledge/ability. Luckily I have 2 good vets that I can count on that offer 24/7 service. I have dealt with a few alpaca uterine prolapses but they were all full prolapses and I can tell you that a uterus outside the body is pretty gross. With alpacas, the uterus has to be cleaned very well before being put back in and then the vet pumps water into the uterus to make sure the horns and everything all go back right. Oxytocin and Banamine are given. Then there is 3 days of flushing. Not to mention antibiotics for at least 2 weeks.
