The finish line*

Dear readers.

Today we had a bit of a unique situation as we had an injured baby zebra on the farm and we had to retrieve it. It had a hurt hoof and it looks like it was ripped off by a trap...

She is still very young and she has been hurt very badly. She ran on the leg the whole way when they went to dart her so she hurt it even worse. They cleaned the wound and gave her shots to numb the pain and to boost her immune system.

The maggots had to be removed with a tweezer and the dead flesh had to be cut off. The cleaned it up and bandaged it with a plastic bag around the wound so we can keep it moist with SOS which will help with the infection.

After bandaging it they wrapped it up with gauss and they got polo bandages for the other legs so they could be supported. She will shift her weight to the other legs because she cannot use this one. We also had to dip her for the tic problem she has and we had to constantly check her breathing and heart rate.

She needed to be taught to drink and when she was herself again we tried to get her to drink but she does not know how. You need to force the teat into the mouth keeping the tongue under the teat so it does not block the airway. She drank a little bit but then unfortunately crashed. They tried cpr but it was not meant to be. When they are so young, they do not always make it.