It may be the sloughing process beginning, but I'm more apt to think it has something to do with all the pressure and swelling and the rubbing has caused it. She's licking at it...don't know what to do about that. Maybe the bitter spray...?
(Shot from below, looking up at the udder - blurry photos today - too close.)
Still having a lot of difficulty doing the warm compresses. She kicks and lays down while I try and ends up getting dirty all over again. I try wedging my knee under her and that helps sometimes. Getting really sick of battling with her as I'm sure she is too. Wish she could understand it's for her own good. Also tired of the shots. I don't want to keep giving them to her if she doesn't need them. All those antibiotics can't be good for her rumen, etc. How do I know when to stop?
Still waiting for the sloughing.Cleaned, warm compress (not much of one), B-12 paste, probios, Bio-mycin, touch of scarlet oil (she didn't care for that one bit), neosporin on the sore, Chlorhexidine spray.
I was able to feel the other udder today. It felt normal. Warm and soft (not hot and hard). Isn't red either. The lumps don't feel like lumps at all. The udder/teat just looks lumpy - really, more like 'ripply'. So I decided against milking her and doing infusions in the good teat. I don't want to risk opening that up to infection.
Kind of a strange angle, taken while she was laying down. That's my hand on the left holding the teat.
The new sore in between the udders is just above my hand.
The black in the back is the dead teat.
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