showstick09
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One of my good cows Wednesday got into something that she shouldn't have. She has a huge gash 6" wide and 8" deep right behind her right forearm, like in her "armpit", and it goes up towards her brisket. She must of fell on something, or rared up on another cow and fell onto something, but I have no idea what. I took her to the vet and they just gave her a shot of banamine and penicillin and sent me home with another shot of banamine to give her Sunday. They told me not to rinse the wound or anything, just to leave it alone and let it heal on its own. Now, it's Saturday, and when I went to check on her, I could smell her before I even got to her. Is she getting infected? My biggest worry is that she is full of air. Anywhere you tap her on the right side of her body, you can fill and hear the air inside of her. It's like you're tapping on a balloon. It's like that from her shoulder all the way back to her flank. And when she tries to walk, it sounds like the gash is "tooting". The vet was closed today, so we couldn't take her in, but we got to talk to one on call and he said not to worry about the air that it would go away on it's on. I just want yalls opinion. What would yall do about the gash and about the air? I just worry that something might be punctured causing all the air that the vet didn't notice.