Tonight I got nothing out of her udder at all and I am pretty sure that it is Gangrene mastitis, also known as Blue Bag and the real name is Staphylococcus aureus. There is a definite line of demarcation forming on her udder and she is MISERABLE when I touch it. My head tells me to put her down, no place for this in a dairy herd. My heart tells me to try and treat her. She doesn't act sick, no fever. She is off her feed a little but not completely and she does drink water. But I just don't know if keeping her is smart. This isn't contagious per say, but it can infect the environment. Fortunately she is in a kidding pen in the old barn and the pen she was in in the new barn is empty for now until I clean it out. This is an environmental bacteria so I will be fencing off the old barn area this week just to be cautious. The goats still go there during the day to hang out, it has been home for 7 years.
Tomorrow morning I am getting a penicillin based infusion for her, hopefully it will work better. I just don't know if I have it in my to go through this process. She will lose half of her udder, it is going to be really gross and very labor intensive. I am torn.
Would have been/has to be right up there with puppies 
And as 
But of course I'm way too far away.
