Heifer with sliced leg

irishguy19772

I have a heifer that sliced it's leg on a sharp disc . It has sliced open the front of the leg and there is a nice enough deep wound.i felt inside and couldt find any barbed wire or anything. It is deep enough and across the leg. I got an injection from the vet and giving him that every 2 days. I'm cleaning the wound with Epsom salts and water, putting on silver spray and Stockholm tar on top of that. I have him in a shed and feeding him hay. Obviously will call the vet out if it doesn't improve. Just wondering any advice to manage the wound?

Mooooo

If its that deep vet should be out to stitch it up

greysides

How old is the wound? Is it infected? How deep is it?

Don't put Stockholm tar onto the wound, around it to keep away flies perhaps. Beware of pieces of hay and seed getting into the wound.

tanko

My vets advice in cases like this is get it cleaned and get it covered as soon as possible after the cut happens.

Clean it and put a yellow pack of sulpha powder into the wound, bandage it then and repeat this every 2/3 days.
Long acting antibiotic also to prevent infection.

If the cut has gone to the bone and damaged the protective layer on the outside of the bone letting infection in you’re going to have a problem.

morphy87

irishguy19772 wrote: »

I have a heifer that sliced it's leg on a sharp disc . It has sliced open the front of the leg and there is a nice enough deep wound.i felt inside and couldt find any barbed wire or anything. It is deep enough and across the leg. I got an injection from the vet and giving him that every 2 days. I'm cleaning the wound with Epsom salts and water, putting on silver spray and Stockholm tar on top of that. I have him in a shed and feeding him hay. Obviously will call the vet out if it doesn't improve. Just wondering any advice to manage the wound?

If I were you I would get the vet out tomorrow morning, the vet more than likely has seen loads of these cases, it might be cheaper in the long run

einn32

It needs stitching I'd say.