Spica Splint

Let me start by saying goats are not as sure footed as you might imagine.  Not for the first time did J find a goat in the dog pen in the barn when there was no goat there the night before.  

The wall Kit Kat is sitting on is ground level outside but six feet high inside.  

Bottle goat Squeeky Jr. was inside the pen this morning with a dangling leg.  I didn't radiograph it but could palpate a fracture of her right femur.  This kind of fracture is too high to cast and I'm not sure what my boss would say to me bringing in a goat to a small animal clinic for orthopedic surgery.  So I fashioned a type of spica splint from rolled newspaper a coat hanger and duct tape.  It's going to be tricky keeping everything in place and clean but she was already setting her foot down.  Here's hoping she heals quickly.