Help...Bleeding horn..!!

[cmjust0]

And for the debate on neosporin...per my doc...DONT use it on the goats...blue coat or any similar antiseptic spray is best

I actually agree with that.. We keep furazone (and scarlex, actually) for situations where we feel like a little moisture retention will speed healing, and iodine for situations where drying it out/scabbing it over quickly would probably work best.

I kinda reserve blukote* for situations where I feel like there's a fungus amongus.

Glad things are looking up for you in goatieland today.


*did I ever tell you guys about the time I sprayed blukote on a baby goat my wife was holding?...and it was windy?...suffice it to say wives generally aren't happy when you apply semi-permanent impromptu make up for them.

 

[glenolam]

TSC usually has a product called "Blood Stop Powder" right on the shelf. A whopping $6.

It's good to have, if you need to stop something from bleeding..

If you search for Blood Stop on the TSC website you get what CM said above and also Wonder Dust - I don't know about the Blood Stop, but the Wonder Dust is horrible....maybe I got a bad bottle or something, but it isn't worth crud in my situations. I got a little carried away hoof trimming the other day (like way carried away) and cut my poor pygmy so good she was limping afterwards. Tried to apply as much wonder dust as I could and she kept on bleeding. Maybe it's just not meant for hooves?

 

[cmjust0]

I got a little carried away hoof trimming the other day (like way carried away) and cut my poor pygmy so good she was limping afterwards. Tried to apply as much wonder dust as I could and she kept on bleeding. Maybe it's just not meant for hooves?

I've used blood-stop on a hoof before...it didn't work very well, either. I've also used blood-stop on a ripped-off baby horn...it worked great.

Maybe it's something about hooves...I dunno. I cut one bad enough that she was making bloody 'snow cones' everywhere she stood for more than like 10 seconds..

I ended up having to grab her up, SMASH blood-stop powder into her hoof (which she didn't care for), and keep adding...and adding...and adding -- holding her hoof up off the ground the whole time -- until it finally stopped.

That one even got a little banamine and still limped for three or four days.

That's what happens when you're tired, you realize you've forgotten to do that last one, and she's little enough that you *think* you can have someone just hold her for a second while you whittle a bit in an unlighted barn around dusk.

:/

 

[jodief100]

My dog groomer recomends Corn Starch. This was after a nail trim gone wrong that left bloody paw prints all over the living room carpet, then bloody paw prints all over my car and then bloody paw prints across the Petsmart as I drug him into the groomer in a complete panic.

And he still stands still for nail trims.....Go figure. But is terrified of the slippery floor at Petsmart.

 

[jlbpooh]

*did I ever tell you guys about the time I sprayed blukote on a baby goat my wife was holding?...and it was windy?...suffice it to say wives generally aren't happy when you apply semi-permanent impromptu make up for them.

Ha, ha. I accidentally sprayed myself in the face with the Blu-Kote. It was a direct shot. My rooster accidentally skinned part of a hen's back with his spur. I was trying to hold her wing up, hold a flashlight and spray the Blu-Kote on her injury. In trying to do all that, I didn't realize the bottle was pointed in the wrong direction and hit myself right in the center of the face. I rushed into the house after getting the hen fixed, and started I had my glasses on or things could have been even worse yet. I scrubbed so hard that I took a lot of skin off, but there was no way I was going to work the next day with a purple face. My face full of scabs the next morning was bad enough. I work for an engineering firm in a large metro area, and they just wouldn't have understood. Just a warning, make sure it is aimed correctly.