Expert: Cheryl K. Smith - 11/4/2009

Question
today I picked up a angora doe rescue in not great shape.she was bloody and matted in her rear end. we clipped her i washed it with bentadine and used bluecote. now to the Horn one of her horns was obviously injured, it is weak and  has some movement and it grew over to the opposite side of the neck. is their a way to trim it?

Answer
Poor girl. I would just leave the horn alone if it is loose because she won't want you messing with it and it might make things worse. Is it poking into her neck? Some people trim little by little from the end, but you have to be careful because there is a vein in there. Removal is not recommended because of the sinuses in the head. If you want to keep it off her neck, you can get one of those water noodles or pipe cover and glue that on or duct tape it.

BluKote is good. Keep an eye out for infection. Does she have diarrhea? Is that what caused the blood? Be careful about giving her grain (I wouldn't give any right away.) Give her good quality hay and some good roughage like tree branches, (not sure what they have where you live.), wheat straw, blackberry. Also buy some probios or give yogurt to get her rumen populated. I know this is more than you asked and maybe you know these things. But if you have other questions, let me know.