Hello, first post here. I have been lurking for a while and learned a lot of good information but unable to find any information on my specific situation. I have had goats for a year now and my does had their first kids on March 1st.
I banded two bucklings last saturday morning (90 days old) and come monday morning the testicles hadn’t completely died, they we’re in a lot of pain. They were cold and dead at the bottom but not at the top by the band. I got them into the vet by noon and they surgically castrated them. He removed most the dead tissue as half of the scrotum was dead. The testicles were blue only half way up. I asked what I did wrong and he said nothing, bands on goats with testicles this large could go either way.
One goat has been in a lot of pain since. He went off food for two days. Wednesday he started eating again but spends most the day kicking and running from one corner of his pen to the other laying down. He seems to do a little better in the evening when the heat goes away. He spends more time walking around and eating. The other looks to be mildly bothered (will flinch or kick rarely, not at an alarming amount) but has bounced back well and never went off food, water and is still nursing.
The vet said there isn’t much he can do as when he checked on him Tuesday the wound was clean and everything was in place and the pain must be from the failed banding. He had two doses of excede 72 hours apart and I had him on banamine from Monday through Wednesday. He peed dark blood for about 36 hours starting the day after the procedure. The other banded buckling did for about 12 hours. Vet says it was clotted blood in vas deferens. Neither have had issue urinating and have normal colored urine now.
Each day he does seem to do better with being more alert and slightly edging back to being himself but is still in obvious pain. I looked at his wound tonight (Friday about 4 day post surgery) and it just seems to be an open hole into his abdomen that hasn’t started to close up. The scrotum is shriveled but as I mentioned half of it has been taken off. I can’t see anything out of place and it’s clean. No swelling, discharge or anything looking infected. How long does this take to close up? I plan on calling the vet again Monday. Anyone have any experience with this?
They were both given their second CD&T booster and a tetanus shot right before the procedure. They were also both administered a block, some sort of numbing shot, and were sedated. I assume if he was going to die directly from the procedure it would of happened by now, but I am still very worried about infection after seeing it tonight.
I banded two bucklings last saturday morning (90 days old) and come monday morning the testicles hadn’t completely died, they we’re in a lot of pain. They were cold and dead at the bottom but not at the top by the band. I got them into the vet by noon and they surgically castrated them. He removed most the dead tissue as half of the scrotum was dead. The testicles were blue only half way up. I asked what I did wrong and he said nothing, bands on goats with testicles this large could go either way.
One goat has been in a lot of pain since. He went off food for two days. Wednesday he started eating again but spends most the day kicking and running from one corner of his pen to the other laying down. He seems to do a little better in the evening when the heat goes away. He spends more time walking around and eating. The other looks to be mildly bothered (will flinch or kick rarely, not at an alarming amount) but has bounced back well and never went off food, water and is still nursing.
The vet said there isn’t much he can do as when he checked on him Tuesday the wound was clean and everything was in place and the pain must be from the failed banding. He had two doses of excede 72 hours apart and I had him on banamine from Monday through Wednesday. He peed dark blood for about 36 hours starting the day after the procedure. The other banded buckling did for about 12 hours. Vet says it was clotted blood in vas deferens. Neither have had issue urinating and have normal colored urine now.
Each day he does seem to do better with being more alert and slightly edging back to being himself but is still in obvious pain. I looked at his wound tonight (Friday about 4 day post surgery) and it just seems to be an open hole into his abdomen that hasn’t started to close up. The scrotum is shriveled but as I mentioned half of it has been taken off. I can’t see anything out of place and it’s clean. No swelling, discharge or anything looking infected. How long does this take to close up? I plan on calling the vet again Monday. Anyone have any experience with this?
They were both given their second CD&T booster and a tetanus shot right before the procedure. They were also both administered a block, some sort of numbing shot, and were sedated. I assume if he was going to die directly from the procedure it would of happened by now, but I am still very worried about infection after seeing it tonight.