So, I had a couple of doelings born a two weeks ago in the cold, and I already had posted on here about their frostbitten ears. Anyways, they are doing good, the frostbitten parts of the ears look like they will fall off soon, and hopefully that goes good. How do I look for infection and prevent infection?
I am just slightly worried about one of the doelings. She was the smaller of the two, and her weight gain has always been a little less than her sisters. Birth weights were 6.19 and 6.27 lbs. I forgot to weight them yesterday, but today they weigh 10.37 and 11.49. Which seems pretty good, right? they are 1/2 ND 1/2 Alpine.
They both are jumping around and are pretty active (especially since the temp is up to 45 degrees after being in the negatives for the first 1.5 weeks after they were born!). But I noticed that sometimes when she stands, she holds up one leg. At first I thought that she was just lifting it up to scratch herself, but I'm not sure, sometimes she just stands like that.
I had worried about them getting frostbite on their legs, so felt them quite often after they were born to make sure that they were warm. Do you think that frostbite on her leg/hoof would be quite obvious by now? Or any suggestions? I read that frostbitten legs would start to loose hair, but haven't noticed any of that. How does a frostbitten hoof look? Do you guys think this would be a worry?
sorry, this is all over the place, but hopefully it makes sense. If not, feel free to ask for clarification on any part.
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Please let us know how things turn out.
Wishing you both the best!
Tammy
I'd say that the photo is pretty accurate. I see what you are talking about though, the lower part of the hoof on the favored foot is purple and the other foot is pink. That makes sense!
After looking closely at the affected foot, the skin area above the hoof looks like it is loosing a little hair. But not a very big area.
but yes, that's kind of what I thought about the swelling in the hooves, but I'm no expert!
Okay, I will just wait and see what ends up happening. Thank you 😊
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