Lost an eye

[gdale]

I had a nice 4-month-old Limousin bull calf sustain eye trauma this past weekend...I'm guessing it was a tree branch, wire, or possibility that his horned mother may have accidentally caused it while fighting flies. Either way, it made me sick to find him the day after it happened. The soonest the vet could come out to do anything was about 48 hours after it happened. She grasped the deflated eye with foreceps and used a scalpel to cut about 1/2 of eyeball off to let the rest of the vitreous fluid out, and gave him a shot of antibiotic. No patch, nothing else. The following day the swelling had significantly decreased. On day 5 after the injury, this calf could close his eyelid over most of the remaining eye/tissue, and as time goes on, the eye/tissue will eventually heal and recede back into the socket. He acts pretty depressed, though he's always been a gentle and quiet calf. Guess we'll feed him and eat him!

 

[M-5]

That's rough. Sorry , it resembles the lasagna I'm eating right now.

 

[Williamsv]

That is terrible! I am so sorry. Sad it had to happen to that pretty calf or any calf for that matter.

 

[Workinonit Farm]

Ouch, that's a bad deal. I hope it all heals well.

 

[gdale]

Thanks, guys, for the comments. Freaky deal, that's for sure. Regardless of how it happened, I'll be tipping the cow's horns soon. She's the last one with horns around here, and everything else is genetically polled.