Bird Whisperer
Chillin' with the herd
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Hi Everyone,
I’ve been using this site for a couple years and finally made an account to post lol! Anyway, I recently moved from Colorado to Southern California and the vet required ear tags for our goats (4 Nigerian Dwarf and 2 Tenessee fainters). The vet didnt have the plastic scrapie tags and used some metal bands for cattle (not sure if there’s a specific name for it).
Today my mom and I heard our little Nigerian doe screaming from the pen. When we got out to see her, she was bleeding from her ear where tag was (looks like it got caught on something and tore her ear). We used some bolt cutters to clip it off then cleaned/bandaged her ear. We ended up clipping the other goat’s ear tags off to avoid this problem (since we wont be selling these guys).
Now she had a big hole in her ear that looks like an ear gage 😖. is there anything I should do to help it heal/close up a bit? Any advice is appreciated! I’ll try to get pics tomorrow when I change her dressing 😁
I’ve been using this site for a couple years and finally made an account to post lol! Anyway, I recently moved from Colorado to Southern California and the vet required ear tags for our goats (4 Nigerian Dwarf and 2 Tenessee fainters). The vet didnt have the plastic scrapie tags and used some metal bands for cattle (not sure if there’s a specific name for it).
Today my mom and I heard our little Nigerian doe screaming from the pen. When we got out to see her, she was bleeding from her ear where tag was (looks like it got caught on something and tore her ear). We used some bolt cutters to clip it off then cleaned/bandaged her ear. We ended up clipping the other goat’s ear tags off to avoid this problem (since we wont be selling these guys).
Now she had a big hole in her ear that looks like an ear gage 😖. is there anything I should do to help it heal/close up a bit? Any advice is appreciated! I’ll try to get pics tomorrow when I change her dressing 😁