The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: fiestyredhead331 on August 15, 2014, 04:41:30 pm
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one of our girls had a weepy eye the othere, just the one eye and I thought perhaps she had perhaps poked herself in the eye in the long grass so washed it with warm water but now her eye has gone cloudy?....could it be pink eye or something else? if so what should I be doing? Terramycin ointment?
anyone got any advice?...... :fc:
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Could well be pinkeye, often starts with a poke due to grass/hay/silage.
The cloudiness is inflammation in the cornea, the surface of the eye, and may be a sign of ongoing infection, or a sign of healing, it can be hard to tell until time reveals whether or not it is getting better!
Antibiotic ointment is good (eg. Orbenin) but I would suggest also giving a shot of long acting terramycin injection and probably a shot of anti-inflammatory (eg. Metacam) would be useful too.
Hope she feels better soon!
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just spoke to the vet and they are giving me ointment tomorrow and if that doesn't help i'll take her down to them for a look :fc:
thanks fsmnutter
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I always jag mine with long acting Tetroxy when they get pink eye, in fact, that's our vets' treatment of choice over ointment - I suppose with sheep mainly, when you only have to do it every 3 days. They mind it a lot less too.
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:fc: It improves. Mine had a horrible eye from a butting session but the ointment, bathing it and in the end metacam and some antibiotics you would never know. I was sure she would lose her sight.
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pinkeye confirmed today by vet, got eye ointment and she's had an injection but they can't be sure they can save the sight in that eye :(
just keeping an eye on everyone else and been told to give them all an antispetic face wash every morning for a week, that'll be fun :-\