I know a few people on here have experience with sheep, so here's hoping someone knows what I'm talking about. For years now, we've noticed that all four of our sheep have lumps on their skin that seemed to get bigger each time we sheared them. But they didn't seem to be tender, and the skin wasn't discolored, so we didn't worry about them. Some of them are really huge though.
Today, we were shearing Boo, and Dad didn't know she had developed a new cyst on her shoulder and grazed it with the clippers. He said there was pus coming out of it so I told him to just squeeze it out, and he got kind of squicked and couldn't. I got a paper towel and finished it for him and OMG, it was like a train wreck. It looked like I'd literally grabbed a tube of toothpaste and squeezed for all it was worth. Oddly enough, it didn't smell and there was very little blood; we put some chlorhexidine on it afterward.
All four sheep have quite a few of these things, mostly on the tops of their heads, between the shoulderblades, and shoulders. Like I said, some of them are pretty large. Should we just leave them alone, or consider draining/having them all drained? I've heard that cysts can become infected if the stuff isn't removed from them.
Today, we were shearing Boo, and Dad didn't know she had developed a new cyst on her shoulder and grazed it with the clippers. He said there was pus coming out of it so I told him to just squeeze it out, and he got kind of squicked and couldn't. I got a paper towel and finished it for him and OMG, it was like a train wreck. It looked like I'd literally grabbed a tube of toothpaste and squeezed for all it was worth. Oddly enough, it didn't smell and there was very little blood; we put some chlorhexidine on it afterward.
All four sheep have quite a few of these things, mostly on the tops of their heads, between the shoulderblades, and shoulders. Like I said, some of them are pretty large. Should we just leave them alone, or consider draining/having them all drained? I've heard that cysts can become infected if the stuff isn't removed from them.
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