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Stopping Bleeding
A LIST OF WAYS TO DEAL WITH HAEMORRHAGE
My new buck (7-year-old) had been here just a few days when he knocked a scur off (how is a mystery) and in the process ruptured both branches of the right temporal artery. Blood pumping in all directions. With the help of two neighbors I got a pressure pad bandaged on him, but the wound still seeped on and off for a few hours.
So I decided to ask advice on the Internet as there is a good chance
the same thing will happen when he knocks the other scur off. Here is a list of the blood-clotting advice I received.
1. Flour.
2. Cornflour (cornstarch).
3. Cayenne pepper. (This can be taken by capsule for internal bleeding such as in coccidiosis.)
4. Baking soda.
5. Tissue paper cut to size and pressed gently in place.
6. Cauterize with disbudding iron, or rod or nail heated with gas bottle - the blood vessel just needs to be lightly touched.
Numbers 1-5 all make some type of chemical reaction with the blood, helping it to clot. The seal formed should be left alone. Just watch for possible infection and treat if it arises.
I was also given instructions about the pressure point for the temporal artery, which I include:
"To stop arterial bleeding from a broken horn, the pressure point for that artery is in the groove on the inside of the eye, sort of between and slightly below the eye and to the side of the broken horn. If you have an arterial spurt, sometimes direct pressure won't work, but this will. Put direct pressure on also, and periodically ease up the arterial pressure to see if you're making progress.
"We almost lost a goat from this, it's a real emergency sometimes."
Such a serious bleed from a scur should not have happened. My guess is that the disbudder did not flick the center skin out of the burn and sear the skull. The result was the artery was not sealed off as it should have been.
Off horns, but still on hemorrhage, a doe can sometimes have a serious bleed after kidding or aborting. First-aid while waiting for professional assistance is to milk the goat. Milking causes the uterine blood vessels to tighten up. Even if there is no milk, the action of squeezing the teats and getting out the tiny amount of fluid can be enough to halt the bleeding - this was the situation the time it happened to one of my goats. She was fine, I was shaking like a leaf afterwards. It was such a relief to find that something I knew in theory really did work!
A LIST OF WAYS TO DEAL WITH HAEMORRHAGE
My new buck (7-year-old) had been here just a few days when he knocked a scur off (how is a mystery) and in the process ruptured both branches of the right temporal artery. Blood pumping in all directions. With the help of two neighbors I got a pressure pad bandaged on him, but the wound still seeped on and off for a few hours.
So I decided to ask advice on the Internet as there is a good chance
the same thing will happen when he knocks the other scur off. Here is a list of the blood-clotting advice I received.
1. Flour.
2. Cornflour (cornstarch).
3. Cayenne pepper. (This can be taken by capsule for internal bleeding such as in coccidiosis.)
4. Baking soda.
5. Tissue paper cut to size and pressed gently in place.
6. Cauterize with disbudding iron, or rod or nail heated with gas bottle - the blood vessel just needs to be lightly touched.
Numbers 1-5 all make some type of chemical reaction with the blood, helping it to clot. The seal formed should be left alone. Just watch for possible infection and treat if it arises.
I was also given instructions about the pressure point for the temporal artery, which I include:
"To stop arterial bleeding from a broken horn, the pressure point for that artery is in the groove on the inside of the eye, sort of between and slightly below the eye and to the side of the broken horn. If you have an arterial spurt, sometimes direct pressure won't work, but this will. Put direct pressure on also, and periodically ease up the arterial pressure to see if you're making progress.
"We almost lost a goat from this, it's a real emergency sometimes."
Such a serious bleed from a scur should not have happened. My guess is that the disbudder did not flick the center skin out of the burn and sear the skull. The result was the artery was not sealed off as it should have been.
Off horns, but still on hemorrhage, a doe can sometimes have a serious bleed after kidding or aborting. First-aid while waiting for professional assistance is to milk the goat. Milking causes the uterine blood vessels to tighten up. Even if there is no milk, the action of squeezing the teats and getting out the tiny amount of fluid can be enough to halt the bleeding - this was the situation the time it happened to one of my goats. She was fine, I was shaking like a leaf afterwards. It was such a relief to find that something I knew in theory really did work!
